The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-08-10
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.

Many of the city jewellers who
rented vacant lot and proceeded to
raise their own garden sass" last
spring are now in position to see
that the farmers lot is not one of
roses without thorns. Cutworms,
bugs and grasshoppers are bad
enough, but when a drouth is added
it is a pretty sure cure for the "back
to the farm fever,
How to provide green feed for the
milk cows when the pastures are
burned brown in June is question
that is bothering most Of us who are
trying to raise cattle under average
farm conditions. AT present it looks
rs if there is only one answer, and
that is Silo.
1t is beginning to look as though
the weather guessers who told us we
will have seven dry years following
the seven wet ones will soon come
forth with their II told you So
chestnut sticking all over them.
The annual question Of stacking or
thrashing from the shock is with us
and the answer is the same. If it
doesn't rain, thrashing from the
shock does fairly well, but a we'll
built stack will save the grain.
The knack Of stacking grain can
be learned by almost any one who
can handle fork, but it is almost
impossible to lay down set of rules
that can be followed. The main
thing to remember is that water runs
down hill and to lay the bundles so as
to make roads for the water to run
down the outside of the stack. /,
If the hen is to pay the grocery
bills now when the price of eggs is
only about half what they were last
year at this time she will need the
best OF care. In many cases the farm |
poultry actually suffers for the lack s
OF water. just little extra care with !
the,hens will greatly increase the egg
production, but with the hen as with
the COW, the care must be steady.
Splendid care to-day and no care =.
tomorrow will not bring results. i
It can rain hard on one corner of a g
farm this year and not rain on another {
corner, and the farm need not be a e
large one either. c
We are still favored with more hay y
weather than we have had hay to put IL
up. 1t is impossible to make hay IL
while the sun shines this season, not q q
because of lack of sunshine, but the G. G.
ack Of hay. T
don't like to feed too much fodder 4
o horses, mainly because of the u
tails and hangers filling up with the
'efuse; nor do think that such ,
coarse roughness as corn fodder is "
Exactly suited to the requirements of
he horse. 1t will be that or nothing
ONE of the time this winter.
There are now a dozen trades to D,
where there was one when most of
IS were small boys. The auctioneer WI
BUSINESS alone has grown until it CO
Imports dozen men where it didn't or
Import one. A local auctioneer tells wi
he his fall season of sales of common he
arm property begins next week,
arlier than usual. in
l do not anticipate the high prices, ms
lis fall, that were paid for some
lings last fall. Early last winter
ent to sale with the idea in mind
buying milk cow. The cow
cked on sold for $50, and she was Ma
My very common cow at that.
alf of that might be the stopping off 80
ace now. Is
1t seems to me that more young Wi
en- are looking for soft jobs than \,
'er before. When was a boy the 'o
'ung man who wanted a little spend PR
g money would tackle the first job ,
ran up against. Too many young
en- of this day, it seems to me, look
lly for the soft jobs. and some of