The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-11-24
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stocEmaa

Grading late in the fall with large
grader is not so bad, lor one can
dodge the loose dirt when it becomes
mud by getting out at the side of the
road, but there's no getting around
the mud when slip scrapers are used,
and sometimes there is no getting
through it.
The next time | 90 by a certain
mans place | will be of a mind to
stop and ask him some questions. /
notice he has a field of corn well
'set" in fine yellow pumpkins. All
my pumpkins dried up soon after
they started, and | would like to know
how this man managed to raise them.
Said a good farmer to me last week:
81 am going to soon have every acre
of my farm seeded down. A few
good milk cow will pasture some Of it
off and eat the hay from some more,
and hogs will pasture the rest. This
man plans on buying his corn for the
next three years and giving his farm
and himself a rest from corn grow
ing. There are thousands of acres of
corn land that would be benefited by
the same kind of change.
The other day | ran across man
who is different from the general run
of men, in that he does not care to
raise alfalfa if he can raise good red
clover. His idea is that clover helps
the land and you pillow it up after two
years of clover, but if you once get
field well set to alfalfa you let it
stand for years and then keep on
growing corn year after year in the
same field.
A good milk COW sells for as much
as a good-horse used to and a good
horse sells for as much as two of the
same kind did a few years ago. Sew
enty-five dollars for good COW and
5000 for horse are no longer sensa-
tional prices at the farm public sale.
Whether man thinks they are worth |
it or not, he has to pay it if he buys
good ones.
Fruit tree agents are again on the
wing. The fruit tree agent prospers
most when there has been a good
crop of fruit, as folks are then in
more of mood for buying nursery
stock. This agent is a sort Of neces-
sary evil; when a man is in a hurry
about some job it is usual for an agent
Of some sort, most generally the fruit
agent, to appear on the scene with
full line Of talk, but years after, If
bill of good stuff was bought and has
been well taken care of man does
not regret the purchase.
The old-fashioned wooden pump
has about gone out of style, but for
hand pump, at stock well, I'll take
a good wooden pump in preference to
anything else. The only thing against
them was the fact that they would
not last, and they were also suscepti-
BILE to bursting when forgetful ones
failed to see that the vent was open
about this time of the year.
l think the maker of public sale
loses nothing by giving the crowd a
good free lunch and plenty of hot
coffee. Here Of late it has become
the custom for ladies' aid societies and
other church organizations to sell the
lunch. This is all very we'll for the
church, and never ate a dinner at a
sale when did not get value receiv-
ed" but, somehow, cannot get over
the idea that the sale maker helps his
sale along by furnishing the dinner
free. Nothing would prevent him
hiring the church ladies to furnish the
dinner.
Long ago got over the old eastern
idea of scratching in clover seed.
Clover seed needs to be covered, the
same as any other seed. the best
stand / ever had was secured by SOW
ing with a grain drill. shut the
feed up tight and then it trickled out
out about twelve to fifteen pounds to
the acre. The evenness of the stand
and the way ii established its root
system convinced me that drilling
clover seed was a success.
All stock require some exercise,
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