The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-08-25
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stoekmsn


H less automobiliSt who had been killed
or injured because his machine turn
ed turtle. No doubt those who live
through an experience of this kind
are willing to initiate the gait of a tor
toiSe afterwards instead of trying to
Guido the hare.
There are very few hogs that will
be troubled with sore teeth from eat
ing the windfalls from the apple
orchard this year.
would give a good deal, even if
only Just for once, to have drove OF
pigs so thrifty they would outgrow
the creep hole in their fence.
The weather is excellent right now
for drying things Last night |
brought home a new apple parer,
which probably means there'll be APP
Piles drying out on the back roof"
soon. As came home noticed field
after field of corn that was also dry
ing where it stood in the field. A
drying time, sure,
We must experience a change in
the weather soon if any soil turns
black from the pillow" this August. 1t
seemed to me, when | was after the
last load of bundled grain, that it
would take a twenty-horsepower en-
CINE to pull a pillow in that stubble
land then. 1t might also be neces-
. sary to blast the chunks with dyna-
mite to unlock the fertility" as the
professors say.
Those having shallow wells and
shallow ponds or waterholes are find
ing themselves short on stock water.
Every dry spell adds more deep, per-
manent wells to the country, for
when folks get short on water they
will do something, and that some
thing usually means a good well.
Last week | was talking with ar
old man who wished he could live his
three-score and ten from this on, in
stead of having had to live it in the
past. He saw great things in the fu
ture and wished he could be here t
see the development. His way wa
to Judge the next fifty years by thu
: past fifty, and not by the feeling
: arising from a dyspeptic stomach. |
/ does one good to talk with such al
/ old settler.
III Corn that has been plowed twic
since it has rained is rolling the wors
through the heat Of the long after
moons. All moisture brought to tn
surface by the last cultivation wa
quickly dissipated by the sun an
wind, indicating that it is best to leav
a dust mulch alone after you get it.
| Hauling manure in August is he
work, but the usual dryness of
makes the loading easier and tn
spreader does the unloading. Who
after using spreader, would 60 bac
to unloading by hand?
| After farm has been equipped fo
keeping a considerable number c
stock, it looks like going backward
to have everything vacated, the shed
and yards empty and the pasture
turned into meadows or plowed u
for grain crops. recently drove b
such a farm and it looked like wiC
: ow lived there.
Nothing is more erratic than graf
market when the weather is abno
: NAL. A report of rain in the fla
. belt of the North lowered the pric
" fifteen cents a bushel Later, whe
Vi it was found the rain was only
&c sprinkle, the price advanced the fl
teen cents in as many minutes.
!" times when the weather is extremel
C unfavorable, the first jump is alwa,
u the widest one.
A farmer needs to be at home
4. chore time. This is the one and on
". fault | have had to find with farmin,
en- and it has grown with me from ear
childhood, when my chore was
bring the milk cows in from Il
picket. Then everyone kept the mi
it'll cows on picket and the rest Of Il
Die cattle were herded. Thank Heave
W. never was pressed into the servi
Oh as herd boy.
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