The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-07-28

work of Il with the moving machine
With trees set hit and miss there's no
chance for = mower and team.
It's quite evident that the long
continued dry weather over large
ara &C the grain belt will cut down
the ned considerably. Next winter
We may hear of newspaper writers
who hGame the lazy farmer for not
raising grain enough TO feed the
hungry public.
Il s rather easy for the pencil
puSher to figure out what crops paid
the farmer the best after. the crops
are gathered and marketed, but to
know what crops will yield the best
profits in the future is a different
thing,
DairNr COWS will live in a shadeless
pasture and seem TO be able to pick
their living. They may also be able
10 pull through the summer if their
drinking water is not what il should
be. but all II these things have d.
rect bearing on the cream check that
their owner receives.
Flies cause the cows to become
very restless At milking time and
their reS,leSSneSS is very liable to be
transmitted 10 the mixer. Some of
the mixers are inclined to try to re-
store peace and quiet by tanning the
CONS with Il milk stool, but il is
practice that should be discouraged.
+ The demand for drain tile seems to
be Just As hriSS this summer as il was
during the We, seasons. This is as it
should X. II there is any time that
is better than any other time for thing
it is ina dry time.
The farmer who becomes possessed
OF the Eiea that he must 'buy more
land 10 raise more corn to feed more
hogs IS On the road that drives the
children irom the farm and himself
and his wife to early graves.
The everlasting fence post that
could be had Tor the price of common
oak would he a great boon, have
more trouble with the posts in the
hog. pasture than anywhere else,
probably because such posts have
served their tine in the cattle fence
and have been cut down when rotted
at the bottom for the lower fence.
The other day saw load of new
alfalfa hay being unloaded at a livery
stable. The last thing / would feed a
road horse would be new alfalfa hay.
II makes them sweat worse than
green grass
Every man seems to have his no
ton abou, horse collars. One wants
a soft collar, the other cannot get the
surface hard enough to suit him. The
advocate of hard collar say il is the
easiest Of all il the shape fits, and
that collar should not be used un.
!. less il does fit.
/ There is no great loss without some
small gain, Now that the price Of
eggs has taken slump Mrs. Burrows
feels that We can have more ange
food cake. cannot understand why
an angel food cake should take clever
eggs, and il is never a big cake a
that.
II When the sun of July beats dowr
hot and there is no breeze aStir, thu
city man feels like hiking to thu
country for his vacation. Likewise
the dispenser Of free advice to farm
ers encourages the farmer to go t
the city for few days of rest. Funn.
thing, the farmer going to the cit.
and the city man going to the farm
to escape the hot weather. II look
as if Burrows would have to spent
some OF his July on binder seat.
l The shell game is old, yet it catche
suckers every day, You see the littl
= pea one second and the next Secon'
= you don't. | thought of that Will
some OF my nelghborS were waiting
IS on threShlng machine, last year
One day they would see the machin
,t pulling into their field and the mex
n day they wouldn't see it. Some G
o their grain badly spoiled in the shoe
IF before the threSher came.
E. Hot weather has rushed hogs
a, market in the last few days, an
10 prices have broSen some, as the buy
4 ers were able 10 take the advantag,
10 There is an alleged shortage of youn
o. hogs and psgS in the country, bl
oi here of late We are never right SUI
IL of these things have faith enoug
in hogs 50 wish there were MOI
he pigs in my pen than there are, but
es may be. when the last load has bee
d. shoveled in the crib next fall, n
1T feeding hogs will even up we
to enough with my corn pile.
Of like to see a road graded RICH
" Perhaps am a crank on the 70;
grade, but it seems to me that gra
e ing wrong IS money thrown ava
oP Now YOU may not agree with me
Sh to what IS right and wrong, but