The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-05-19
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stoekman

WITCH MdICu COMES III IKE ldmI
it will 90 out like a lion is an old say.
ing, but whoever expected it would
wait until the latter part of ApriNsnd
then go roaring out like a house
afire?
I Even If the fruit crop is a failure
here this year, it should not prevent
anyone from planting an orchard.
Other crops have failed some years,
but we go ahead and plant the same
kind of a crop the next year, even
though they occupy fifty times as
much ground as a fair-sized orchard
does.
After all, it is hen fruit that is the
most reliable crop, and it gets too
little attention on the majority Of
farms. The time is coming soon when
eggs and poultry will be one of the
principal sources of income to those
who own small or medium-sized
farms.
Nine cooperative creameries in the
northern part of Iowa have organized
what is called the Northern Iowa
Dairy Association. This is not trust,
but the patrons of these creameries
joined together and hired an expert
dairyman to go among themand teach
them better methods of dalrying than
those in general use. This is entirely
a new venture and the results will be
watched with interest.
For anyone to claim that they have
cows in their herd that will give
"pailfull of milk with no other feed
than just hay" is to show their ig-
norance of dairy methods, even though
they may tell the truth. A good cow
will milk quite well for while after
calving with very little feed, but no
one but fool will imagine she can
do this for any length of time with
out material to make the milk from.
Some years ago | had a field of
corn up three inches high and cult
waited. One night came a frost and
killed it to the ground. Another
field of like height, but not cult
waited, was barely touched. Cultiva-
ton brought more moisture to the
surface, with a harder freezing as the
result. The frozen corn came on
again all right.
Frost is peculiar. A certain degree
of cold will kill under one condition
and will not under another. A neigh
Dor once had corn killed entirely,
with the thermometer registering no
lower than it has when only the tips
were frosted. Frost damage also
goes in waves or Streaks.
There is something in suiting the
corn to the soil. Trying to suit the
soil to the corn is tough PROPOSE
ton, as many man who has tried
corn adapted to bottom soil on thin
ner upland has found to his sorrow.
| find it does not pay to crowd in
corn little too big for the soil.
Driving tired horse to town after
supper is one way to make young
horse old.
Hundreds of clover fields that
should have been good for another
season failed to live through the WIN
ter. This calls for more corn. do
not recall year when the corn acre
age has been greater around me. By
what | read it is the same pretty much
all over the corn belt. Perhaps the
1910 crop will hold some of the
wind-tossed cribs down. burrows
has one he would like to see filled to
the roof again.
Anything that stops gap in the
fence is called gate. A great many
are not worthy the name. Years ago,
when | thought nothing better could
be afforded, there were several wire
gates on this farm. | still have wire
gates, but they are of woven wire on
a frame, quite different from three
or four barb wires tied together in
the middle and often loose at both
ends.
The other day | had conversation
with dairyman who talked glibly of
cows having advanced records.
Few cows are capable Of making an
advanced record and in proportion to
the number engaged in the business,
there are mighty few farmers who
have made an advanced record in
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