The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-03-24
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stccAman


they raised me a lot ofNfine pigs. For
some years | have not been raising
many fall pigs, preferring to let the
pure-bred sows l have raise one good
early spring litter, but now ! have
got back to raising fall pigs again. |
will probably keep up the practice.
Fall pigs will come in just right to
! get the high price this time.
| Two of our neighbors have failed
| to fill their ice houses this winter and
have given as their excuse the fact
that the weather has been too cold
and the roads too poor. A year ago
these same men were growing about
the scarcity of ice. Some men always
have an excuse for being lazy.
One of these neighbors spends
about half of the winter days loafing
around the saloons down at the vii
lage. II always seems to me that it
might be better for him to be leaning
over the side of the pig pen with a
corn cob in his hand scratching the
back of pig.
Farmers do some things just op-
posite from the way they once did.
They no longer sell all stock that is
barely ready for market on the first
of March, to escape taxation. For
merly, the average farmer had debts
to pay when he sold stock, and of
course he had no money left on
which to pay taxes, but now he has
the money left, and taxation is steep
er on money than on stock.
The longer ] live and the more
road work | see done, the better |
think of the road drag. The simple
lily of the road drag is great thing in
its favor, at the same time the uniniti-
ated do not believe it can do the work
it does, just because it is such sim
pie affair.
Whenever a new thing comes out |
like to know something about it, but
never yet have had the opportunity
of seeing one of those harrow attach
ments for riding plows in operation.
Wish readers of this paper who have
used them will tell what they think
of them.
My own notion about narrowing
behind the pillow is that it pays big to
do it at times, and at other times it is
a detriment. Late blowing should
always be narrowed Immediately,
but hardly ever harrow land that is
to lie quite awhile before planting, as
rains will usually do that for me in
the meantime.
A horse put to work with heavy
coat of hair should be worked mighty
light for spell. If not he will sweat
till he runs down as thin as a lath.
The boys ought to give him special
course Of comb and brush until the
winter coat is shed.
A good foundation is one Of the
main things about barn, and in adj
dition to being good one, it should
be high enough. A serious mistake
made was in not getting the founda-
ton of my-vharar high enough. II
could be remedied, Of course, but at
ten 4imes&leygstpt maluing it . few
inches ~ Rhsn building. = ]
Nearly every hardware dealer now
has packages of bolts, fifty of assert
ed sizes and lengths in box. Such
box sells for fifty cents, and the
average farmer will find that fifty
cents the best spent Of any,. When a
busy man wants a bolt he wants il
then and there, and he wants it some.
where near the right size.
s'Crowd your colts until they are
three, !" said horseman, the Other
day. AS he is a good horseman, who
knows good horse when he sees
one and knows how to raise one, i
struck me that his saying was word
passing along, although the truth ant
, importance of it is well known Il
many. The trouble with some Of q,
is we do not do as well as we know
! Now, when in the field at worI
and Il begins to rain. l 60 to n
! house, instead Of waiting until vet 1
the skin before believing that It j. q
: ing to rain very long. It Is better