The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-04-07
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stockman

Automobiles do some damage to
the roads, but for downright mean
ness, I'll put the four-horSe load pull
ed after 4 heavy rain against any
auto that ever drew a breath of gaso-
line. II makes me mad to see man
get out with four-horse load soon
after rain, especially if his hauling
could just as well wait.
Those who have trees that need
trimming should do the work before
the sap starts. All wounds should be
covered with grating wax or white
lead to keep the water out and pre-
vent rotting.
There is one thing upon which |
am quite definitely decided, and that
is this: There is just as much in feed
as in breed. | never yet have seen a
really good representative of any
breed which has been bred and rails
ed upon the farm of some poor feed
er.
One of my friends has discovered
more polite way of telling man that
he lacks backbone. The other day |
heard him tell man that he had
piece of spaghetti where his back
bone ought to be, and the man did
not get bit mad.
Two years ago town in one OF
the corn-belt states voted to eXpend,
against the chairman's wishes, $1,000
for the improvement of its roads. In
that particular county the county
board agreed to duplicate any sum
put up by the separate towns for the
building of roads. That summer while
the road was being built this chair
man drove by and, after watching the
work for time, turned to the coun-
ty highway commissioner and said
81 have changed my mind on this
road question. had 1000 bushels
of potatoes in the cellar last March
and was offered ninety-two cents per
bushel for them, but could not even
get an empty wagon to town at that
time and when the roads did improve
sufficiently to permit of hauling, |
could get but thirty cents bushel
for them. | lost just $500 on that
deal, or more than my share on the
tax to build stone roads all over the
entire county. You can't build them
fast enough to suit me after this. F."
Four rows of evergreen make a
perfect windbreak. Scotch pine and
Black Hills spruce are both very good
but varieties vary in different local
tiles.
By substituting letter If" for the
letter IS" a great deal of the poor
seed corn would land where it ought
to.
Envy often gets one in debt. An
auto agent tells me he is selling cars
to people who must mortgage their
places to buy them, but buy them
they will all because neighbor has
a car | am glad the streak of envy
that auns among farmers is small.
1t is bad idea to commence to
gorge the horses on corn as soon as
they are put into springs work. This
gets them off their feed, and it is Of
ten necessary to lay horses off on this
account alone. like to have at least
two different grains to feed at the
start. A feed of corn and then feed
of oats, for instance, helps out.
Mapping the week work out ahead
may be good plan, but one should
not get in the habit of stewing if
everything on the map is not wiped
off by Saturday night. The man who
can whistle when storms keep him
out of the fields for week at time
lives longer for having taken it in
that way.
1t seems good to get out in the field
at work again, but long before night,
one understands that he is soft,
the same as are the horses. The man
who feels for himself ought also to
feel for his horses.
know il pays to use good machine
oil and to use plenty of it. Real thir
oil is the most expensive because i
runs off almost as fast as it can be
pnt on bearing. | find the branc
of oil that really costs me the leas
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