The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-09-22
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stoekman

Farmer and Stoekman
Some of us are going to know more
about ensilage in a year from now
than We knew new This is going te
be the first season" for hundreds Of
farmers, and no doubt mistakes will
be made that will cost the silo few
friends, while the successes will make
many friends. 81.
About time for the women folks to
be taking in the house plants they
have had out in the front yard all
summer, and soon thereafter will the
fuel expense be increased, all because
of aforesaid plants. But blossoms
and fragrance go long ways towards
shortening winter. Mrs. Burrows
says the fire is needed anyway, but
have noticed that the last shovel of
coal goes into the stove at night ito
keep the plants from freezing"
Z An Illinois subscriber wants the ad-
vice Of an expert horseman on how to
teach a four-year-old colt how to back
an empty wagon. 1t seems this colt
will back on the pillow, the planter or
any other implement, but when hitch
ed to wagon, he absolutely refuses
to bulge. We would like to have
some skilled man give little advice
on this subject.
A sermon on crop rotation is grow
ing right in our neighborhood, in two
fields of corn, standing side by side.
On the one plat corn has been planted
for fourteen consecutive years, on the
other a good rotation was employed,
and you just ought to see the differ
ence. Now the poorest piece might
not have been so bad, seen alone, but
its neighbor makes it look just sick in
comparison. Had it not been very
featile bottom land, enriched every
year by creek overflows, do not be-
lieve that the rotationless farmer
would have got crop at all.
There is one kind of dairying that
always did and always will pay, and
that is first-class dairying. Get into
that class, then you will have plenty
of elbow room, pleasure and profit in
your business.
Your land may be in need of drain
age. Find out. But do not give the
work of laying the tile to inexperi-
enced hands. 1t must be done just
right, or not at all. Learn the princi-
Piles, yourself and then give the job
your close personal supervision.
! am not fond of hauling out a ton
of water with every ton of manure.
1t is useless work, and try to plan it
so as not to haul manure in wet
weather. have seen men haul ma
nure so wet the water ran out be-
tween the Stats of the spreader apron.
They did it because there was moth
ing else to do"
After sitting up nearly all night
with one of the best work mares on
the farm, she died just at daylight.
In figuring what the farmers profits
ought to be, the town man never de-
ducts an amount to cover such losses
as this. The farmer does not like to
have them, but he occasionally must
have them just the same, the efforts
of all veterinarians and "hoss doc
tors" to the contrary. ..
The president of one of the great
western railway systems says he can
not see very brisk year of business
ahead and the cashier of bank says
the rate of interest on money is soon
to be increased, because there is go
ing to be tightening up of money.
On the other hand, my daily paper
does not forget to make daily men,
ton of the farmers great and increas-
ing prosperity. The farmer is being
relied upon right along now to keep
the country's prosperity in smooth
running order.
Reading that | had intentions on the
ten acres of timber growing on this
farm for the winters fuel, a subscrib-
er writes for some information on the