The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-04-28
GumptiOn on The Farm.

be prompt at meals
Is the mower ready?
Cold wet May-barn full of hay.
Don't slight the corn-corn i,
King.
A field is not fenced when the Sars
are down.
Don't put away steel tools wet; dry
them first, then oil them.
Lift up your eyes occasionally. All
good things aren't in the burrows.
Il If you think nobody cares for YOU
have carbuncle on the back of your
neck.
Il Never lead colt at the end of a
long strap. Men have been killed in
this way.
| Cut your clover while il is in the
bloom. Dead-ripe clover is just about
spoiled so far as feed is concerned.
Wood ashes or lime should not be
applied mixed with, or in direct con.
tact with, stable or hen manure.
Don't throw out apples, potatoes
or turnips where stock can get them,
and choke. Either bury or slice
them.
After all it is the producing power
OF the farm that determines the bow
in his going or staying. Show him
that there's money in it, and he will
stick to the old farm like sand-bur
to sleeps tail.
Don't let the back step be insight
iy with Swill pals, cat dishes and hen
food, thus strewing food and attract
ing flies and disease. Cart away all
old cans, broken dishes, old coats
and boots, from back places and ,
yards.
on some soils it does not pay to
pillow too deep. For instance, take il
where. the plow-point strikes hard
pan; no use to pull the horses to
death and tire ourselves all out to =
bring that to the surface. II is not
worth while after we have done it. =
Here is the most approved method :
OF treating seed potatoes to prevent a !.
scabby crop: Soak the whole seed y
for two hours in a mixture of one
half pint of formalin (often called n
formaldehyde) and fifteen gallons of p
cold water; dry the seed, cut, and u
plant in ground that has not recently In
grown potatoes. W
Must the horse go? is the anxious al
query OF the Illinois farmer. To be p'
sure he must 60 and the faster the
better. Who wants a horse that m
does not go? In these automobile or
speed days the faster the horse can ia
60 the better we like him, and soon q
nobody will be satisfied with less W
imam tWO-mlnute clip. ia
Probably not one farmer in a be
thousand ever took his moving ma ha
chine guards out and ground them st;
IN the cutting edge. Look at them
md see how dull they are. Some so
lay before haying, when you have a OO
little time, just take them all out and an
harpen them. You have no idea ma
low much better they will work. WI
he machine will cut almost like a ths
ew one. bo,
Earring corn: In coating seed corn
nth coal-tar as a protection against o,,
rows and blackbirds, put the grain tho
Ito pail and pour on enough warm K;r
'ater to cover it Add a teaspoonfull nor
tar to peck, and stir well. Throw 800
he corn on sieve or in basket TO -,
rain, and then stir in a few handouts =
land plaster GYPSUM. Do not .
our the tar on the dry seed. lslit
Sometimes folks get good many .
onS in the fire at the same time in iiel'
ute OF themselves. Jobs come thick CON
ID fast, some days. The best way Jus
DO, then, is to keep calm and 90 w
raight ahead-doing all the little pos
lngs that lie in one part of the farm yer!
hen you are in that locality, and 'o'i'
en- go on to something else. Finish =
nat you have on hand. Time brings
out right to the man who works
10 u,ox,