The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-05-19


counts. Ihave an old sow and stag
that will bring close to 500. Fifty
dollars apiece is more than any bacon
hog would bring forpackingpurposes,
no matter how finely streaked with
lean. Nowadays the man who has
lean hogs has lean pocket book.
For some years | have been watch
ing the work done by those four
horse graders, and have come to the
conclusion that they are all right and
they are not all right. After grade
has been made, they are all right to
keep it up, but they are not grade
makers from the start to the finish.
1t takes grader of weight to make a
smooth cut and, of course, weight
calls for horse power or some other
power that equals at least eight geed
horses.
For some time | have been trying
to keep box culvert in at a crossing
into one of my fields, the box bridg-
ing the usual roadside ditch. Hauling
spreader loads of manure over it and
thraShing engines going over it soon
put it out of repair. 1t is now out en-
tirely and will remain out until can
put in something more substantial
than box. 1t will be small con-
crete arch when | get the time.
Who doesn't like to see a good,
clean game of baseball? II is the
great American game and every
country town does well to encourage
ball playing on Saturday afternoon.
1t brings the people in to watch the
game, encouraging class that is
often too hide-bound with work to
take little rest and recreation at the
week end. must confess that | still
have a great hankering after ball
games.
The other day | saw an old farmer
who retired to town on the 1st of
March. He came in the lumber yard
where l was after lumber, and acted
as if the team, the wagon and the
work looked good to him. I'll wager
a keg Of nails he wished himself in
my place when I drove out of town.
The man who narrowed behind
the pillow any time last month did not
harrow in sorrow. He has been glad
he did it ever since.
This has also been one of those
springs when disking the, stalk field
for small grain was better than plow-
ing it. Iplowed corner where the
stalk growth was extra heavy, and
the drouth is hitting harder there.
1t is early yet, and rains may fall
in torrents soon, but if the tame grass
doesn't get soaked from blade to root
soon, tame hay will be on the scarce
list next winter. This will call for
more corn to be put in the shock.
1t has been discovered that a Kan
sas congressman has been padding
the mails during the time when mails
were being weighed to contract with
the railroads for the next four years,
by sending several thousand pounds
Of the 1908 year book of the depart
ment of agriculture to his constit-
uents. Possibly that congressman is
a victim Of circumstances" but how
about the farmer who already has
three 1903 year books from the same
source?
The latest in cultivators are those
steered with foot pedals, after the
style of the pedals on two-row cult
vators. can speak from experience
that the pedals on the two-row ma
chimes are a marvel of ease, and see
no reason why they shouldn't be the
same on the one-rows.
1t always turns out this wayne
sooner does man get a machine
that seems to be the height of perfec-
ton than out comes another with i'm
proved features that seem to make
the other ten years old. There comes
4 time when man must buy, however
sorry he Is soon after.