The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-06-30
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stockman

humdrum lie, out Is not found TO be
that way to those who make things
hum and leave the drumming to those
who prefer to knock.
Every bright day is the corn bell
farmers busy day, now tina. corr
cultivating season is here. This year
the ground needs to be stirred often
to retain the moisture and the weeds
are as vigorous as though this were
weather conditions made especially
for the growth.
Lard retails at twenty cents per
pound at our local butchers and
notice in one of our daily papers that
city grocer quotes olemargarine al
two pounds for a quarter of a dollar.
From this il is clear that the dairy
man does not need to hesitate about
raising lard hogs for fear of furnish
ing cheap material for making the
poor mans butter.
There are several kinds of hand
separators on the market that will do
good work if given reasonable care.
All of them require solid foundation
and should be set perfectly level.
They should be turned steadily at the
speed indicated on the crank of the
machine and the oiling carefully at
tended to. There is no machine on
the farm that requires more careful
attention than the cream separator.
The present indications are that
there will be plenty of room at the
top of most of the hay mows next
winter.
Fishing is a fine recreation for
those who like it, as is baseball, but
il is almosta crime to indulge in either
when there is weedy corn at home
and the souls working just right.
The man who leaves the cornfield is
then not working just right.
A self-styled agriculturist, who has
evidently farmed more with a pencil
than with a pillow, tells us that in or
der to get good results the corn must
be cultivated at least eight or nine
times. This may be true enough, but
the only way for most of us to do this
would be to get a three-row cultiva-
tor and drive on the trot.
This morning it felt as if frost in
June might not be stranger in the
corn belt. 1t might not be fair to
blame it on any political party, so let's
lay it up against the comet.
The last week has not been to my
liking. The weeds have grown very
well and the corn has not, and have
one field of rather weedy corn.
! The hog market has been past the
understanding of man this season.
When the corn belt farmer had his
spring pig crop ready for market the
price went high; now that nearly ev-
eryone has sold short on hogs the
price goes lower. guess they can
not lay this onto packers manipula-
ton.
An experiment station sent me a
bulletin on seeding spring grains last
week. Next fall, about the time |
pry the throw board off the hog fence,
| may receive bulletin on corn plant
ing. 1t seems to me such things
could be issued more in season.
He must be a good man in other re-
spects to fall into the ways of a good
farmer.
No man can afford to have capital
lying around idle, whether in the
form of money in the bank, in useless
fencing or in horses that eat to live,
but return nothing for their board, |
cannot think, however, that this ap-
plies to the old horse that has already
paid his board.
Rich soil makes rank weeds. If
the weeds are kept down there will
be rank crops, but when rain every
other day interferes it is a tough job
to keep the cornfield as clean as one
would like to have it. l find that
plenty Of rotation gets away with the
weeds better and easier than ! can
with cultivator. A change for the
land puts change in fellows pocket
book.
Last year / tried filing mower
sickle with serrated sections, and