The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-03-03
FARM BURROWS.
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a field that has failed to produce good
crops ever since wet season put the
man who farmed it out of the weed
killing game, and who has since moi
got back into the game to any consid-
cradle extent. The poor fellow tries
to farm two acres for every one he
should farm, consequently his land is
poisoned with burs. Here of late his
crops do not start off in the spring as
they should.
While in the city saw bushel of
corn that took first prize for bushel
lots at the National Corn Show. II
has been sold for $3.50, at which price
we could all afford to devote some at
tention to the production of pure-bred
seed. | am afraid the demand for
seed at that price would soon be sup
piled, though.
The poorest farmer | know has
more than many a well-dressed man
| saw in the city, besides, the farmer
is his own boss, no matter how poor
in worlds goods he may be. The city
man must wear good clothes, even if
at the expense of some of the neces-
sites of life. Good clothes he must
wear to hold down his job.
| heard man say that hay was GO
ing to be very high in price next year
because greater acreage than ever
in the corn belt was out of grass and
under the pillow. He went on the
theory that high grain prices had
caused and would cause many mead
ows to be broken up, and consequent
Iy next fall would see some record
smashing done in the hay market.
Planters of the variable drop"
style are now on the market. A
change of drop can be instantly made
without stopping the team. You can
plant thicker along the bottom and
thinner when going over the knoll.
The idea looks like good one to me.
Gang plows used to be considered
horse killers, but that was when gang
blows were not made as they are
now. The gang that is adjustable in
is bail can be set to run true in the
iurrow, when ii will pull no harder
IN proportion than the single mold
board, but let gangs pull out Of line
and more power is required at once.
The ancient gang pillow was not ad-
Unstable and the frame was given to
springing.
| don't believe in bribing the chill
dren to do common chores. If train
ing is what it should have been,
when boy reaches the 'help out"
age he will take more interest in the
work if not started in on the bride
plan. Bribing children to pick up the
cobs or bring in the wood is good
way to teach them to be politicians,
but not farmers. | want my children
to be farmers.
One of my neighbors believes in
feeding cattle to a finish. A short
time ago he told me the rule he went
by. He gets the neighbors to come
in and look at his steers and when all
agree they are ready for market he
feeds them just thirty days longer.
He says those last thirty days are
invariably the most profitable Of all.
When boy do not recollect go
ing to town without the coal oil Jug;
nowI have a barrel tank, and get
summers supply for the oil stove at
one haul. | get it cheaper per gallon,
too.
The older get the less / find | |
know about horses, and the more
looking" it takes to decide in my
mind whether the horse is worth the
money or not. When about twenty
years Of age thought myself a good
Judge Of a horse, but now it is plain
to me that judged myself too high
ly, and not the horse. Youth has to
outgrow a know-it-all period.
You wouldn't wear a shoe that
didn't fit, a half-hour, even if it had
been paid for and couldn't be ex-
changed. Think Of the horse that is
trying to be fitted to the collar.
Still comes the record Of another
ear Of corn, this time from Mr.. Joe
johnson, Of Wapello, county, Iowa.
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