The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-07-20
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.

Farmer and Stockman.
One of the good things that dry
weather brings is the evenings free
from mosquitoes, but at present mos
of us would be willing to swat few
mosquitoes if we could get the
showers.
- A pasture without any shade in the
summer is about like yard without
a Windbreak in the winter.
This is called the cement age by a
great many people; others are predict.
ing gasoline age in the near future.
Gasoline tractors are used to a great
extent now, but dreamers are dream
ing of self-propelled binders, mowers,
plows and all other farm machinery.
1t is pretty safe bet, though, that the
colts that are raised this year will see
many years of service on the farm.
Those who swing scythe in hay
making know by experience that the
light-running qualities of a mower de-
pend to a great extent on how well
the sickle is sharpened.
The hot, dry weather and hot, dry
earth make quick work of drying hay
after it is cut. Some days it seems to
dry about as quickly as it would if
spread out on a hot stove.
Those who are building or intend
to build barns soon should write to
the manufacturers of swinging STAN
-chlnns and other stable equipments
for the free books that they send CIV
ing information on the subject, or,
better still, 90 and see barns where
they are in use. A barn is something
a farmer builds only once in lifetime
and he should try to make it a thing
OF beauty and joy forever.
The old saying, as good as June
pasture, was certainly mlsnomer
this June. 1t has been many June
since | have seen pastures as short as
they were the past month.
The price of potatoes scared, but
they scared too high. The middle
men worked the game too long and
too strong, it appears; at any rate the
women folks all over the country shut
down on the use of such expensive
food, and the result was more pota-
toes left on dealers hands than it
would seem there could be in the
When women folks put
heir foot down on thing it stays
Down.
Fly time is all the time now, except
rom about 8 p. m. to ga. m. 1t is a
wonder to me that cows can give as
much milk as they do, with flies and
short pastures both to contend with.
n a short time without relief, the
,rice of butter fat will follow after
potatoes.
The dog days are veto come, but
they are any worse than some of
he June days, we will want to EMU
ate the example set by F. D. Coburn,
Who spent that warm, windy Sunday
I June in the cellar. {
No doubt this season, if it holds out s
} the end as it has started in, will
lake large number of new friends I
Or kaffir corn. | have heard a num- r
er say they were going to plant a
God acreage of kaffir corn next sea- T
On. Probably next season will bring t
'rth one of those bumper corn crops l
e read so much about, and the man Il
18th big kaffir acreage will be sorry Il
n it. Bushel for bushel, will take e
Re old-fashioned corn every time, ex- g
'Pl III CIllChCIlS. d
l have owned and run corn bind H
long enough to discover that the p
achine rides much easier and runs "
UGH smoother where the corn has Ct
zen laid by with a disk cultivator. =
1e more l use disk the last time .
'er corn the better l like it, both on
count of the way it leaves the I
ound and the way it leaves the
IN roots.
Early in June sowed three acres
cowpeas. The way those cowpeas
e standing the dry weather makes
E believe they are on the list of
outh-resisting crops. They certain
are resisting the drouth, and have
enty of it to resist.
This has been a hard spring and
rly summer on newly set nursery
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