The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-10-20
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stockmAn

fall. Dry weather and good road.
are great helps in hurrying this worl
along. Shredding corn is the mex
steam rig job and in this work dry
weather is even more necessary.
We quite often hear farmers say
that cattle will eat shredded corn fod.
der even if it is mouldy. This may
be true. Cattle will eat almost any,
thing if driven to it by hunger, but
making beef and butter fat for the
owner is out of the question if they
do not receive proper food and plenty
of it.
Many of the best dairymen never
milk their cows entirely dry the first
few times after they come in fresh in
order to prevent milk fever. have
never seen an explanation of why
this will prevent milk fever, but the
practice is so general among good
dairymen that it is pretty good rule
to follow.
Ground can be plowed when it is
dry and hard and the majority seem
to think that this is better for the
crops, but there are very few plow-
men who feel sorry when good rain
has soaked the soil so that one team
can do as much as two did before.
The man who believes foxtail
makes good hay should be COW for
30 days and have foxtail for break
fast, dinner and supper. A little
chinch bug fodder would taste mighty
good at the end of that time.
| am going to keep more young
Sows and fewer old ones this year,
contrary to the advice given in many
farm papers take. For three years
it has been my experience that young
sows did the best. Last year three
old sows--not old either in number
of years-flunked completely for me,
and gave scarcely enough milk for
the ordinary sized litters they far
rowed. Hogologists might sayit was
the way the sows were fed, but the
young sows were fed in the same
way and raised their litters in fine
shape.
If every farmer would spend a
little more money for oil and little
more time in putting it where it is
needed, am satisfied the machinery
bill would not be so great as it is on
many farm. It is one thing to
squirt oil into an oil cup and quite an
other thing to see that the bearing is
getting the oil.
A friend of mine writes that he has
lived 60 years, but has just found out
how to make land roller that actual
ly does the business. He gets Sec
ton of round galvanized iron culvert
material. He prefers to have it at
least two feet in diameter, and CORFU
gated. The section is as long as you
wish to make the roller. II is turned
on end, an iron axle or rod of axle
size is placed exactly in the center
The inside is then ready to be filled
with cement mortar. Let it cure for
two weeks before using, wetting oc-
casionally during that time. A frame
is bolted to the axle, of course. This
can be constructed according to fancy.
The whole idea looks good to me. !
The public sale season is starting
off brisk again. A few weeks ago
the banks gave apprehension about
cashing all the sale notes, but no
ticed in local paper that came yes
terday that a bank is advertising for
sale note business. A bank doesn't
want to dodge the sale notes when it ;
advertiSes for that sort of business.
Coming right down to facts as they ,
are, there is no safer paper for bank :
to hold, aside from the farm loan
which pays low rate of interest, than
the average sale note. And while
"clerkihg' the sale, the banks cash.
Ter is usually able to corral several
new customers for the bank. The
bank that gets out after the sale bust
ness gets next to the people.
Although no man is supposed to be
responsible for his neighbours stray s
stock, every farm should be enclosed