The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-12-22

those VINO nave lett tnelr IaTin SOl'
il to get the wherewith to set them
selves up in town and now they hav,
no farm to go back to.
Our mail carrier is still using hi
motor cycle in making his daily trips
That is he used it to-day, but to-mor
row ii is possible that he must hitch
to his cutter and plug along at slow
err gait.
II seems rather pleasant to have the
field work finished and have some
time to pick things up about the farm
before snow comes.
4 straw stack makes good shelter
for a bunch of hogs, because they are
generally architects enough to build a
house of their own if given plenty of
straw for material, but cattle and
horses need to be well housed in or
der to be comfortable on cold, stormy
nights,
When ice begins to form on the
water tank il is time to put the tank
heater into use unless you have a
better way of supplying the cattle and
horses with drinkable water.
Cement floors for dairy barns are
easily kept clean and when properly
made are very durable, but unless
they are covered with bedding they
make a rather hard, cold bed for the
cows.
The pleasant weather this fall is
making it possible to let the cattle
run in the stalk fields and get the
corn left by the huskers and also pick
up the other feed in and around the
fields.
The hired help problem is hard
nut for the farmer to crack. The
wages are good, the board, washing
and lodging are generally all that can
be expected, the hours of work in a
day are less than formerly, but still
help seems to be scarce.
When the price of farm produce is
nearly doubled from the time it leaves
the farmers hands until 1T reaches
the ultimate consumer" it is a
pretty safe bet that someone is maxi
ing an easy living by passing a good
thing along.
A shop in which farmer can work
at odd jobs, such as harness mending
and the like, and in which to keep
the small tools on the farm, is almost
necessity.
Machinery is getting to be more
complicated every day, and it takes
a man with his head in the game to
operate some of it. The fellow who
can't understand the mechanism of a
dash churn had better not take up
farming as an occupation.
Some men bear the same relation
to their fellows that nubbin bears to
the SHOW" ear-they're not in it.
On a frosty morning when | turn
out to do the chores at four O'Clock
by lantern light can't see but what
I'm just as active as l was forty years
ago.
| have an old SOW or two that are
not growing old very gracefully and
unless a change for the better is soon
noticeable therell be more sausage in
our home this winter than we first
planned on.
| Just can't bear a horse that kicks
at you every time he takes a notion.
Some people don't mind it, but it gets
on my nerves.
UP to the present writing there has
not been snow enough to make a de-
cent SNOWFALL. This makes chores
and tinkering Of fences and buildings
rather pleasant work and everyone is
pleased except those who always live
in fear and trembling. Their present
great fear is that we will have no
snow this winter and that the ground
will be so dry next spring that moth
ing will grow.
This is good time to fight the coal
trust by gathering all the down wood
that can be found and using it for
fuel.
The hog raiser is beginning to
view with alarm" the downward
trend Of prices. He is sometimes
inclined to think that the law Of sup
DIV and demand in the case of HOGS