The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-08
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.

Farmer and Stockman.
When it comes to crossing corn
like to be able to lay aside the shields.
The gangs handle around so much
easier, and, anyhow, it seems that a
person can do better without shields
than with them.
Not long since was talking with a
man who said he was going to keep
on until he would be growing alfalfa
successfully on upland. gave it up
some years ago, not because Of any
trouble in getting a stand, but because
of the trouble of keeping stand after
getting it. If ever | try it again it
will be only after the land has been
tiled.
1t is easy to see that the next wet
weather job on this farm is going to
be trimming about forty rods of hedge
/ that we try to keep looking some
thing like decent around the build
ings. This is one objections to the
hedge fence; it always needs trim
ming just when you feel most like
taking rest, or, as the boys say, just
when there is going to be an interest
ing ball game.
The tame hay crop has contracted
the habit of being short, and unless
soaking rain falls soon, it will be as
short as ever again this season.. Clo-
yer is especially short and in bloom,
so rain right away would not stretch
it up great deal. Short and sweet
certainly fits the case.
Why is it that the town man is al
ways believing that farmers would
raise great deal more if they would
put in more time in the fields, at the
same time the town man will not
keep 2x4 lawn moved as it should
be? However, most of us know bet
ter than we do.
| believe if we could get men to
work on the farm for the same wages
that they get in the cities, it would
pay well to hire them to hoe corn in
the good, old-fashioned way. As far
as l am concerned, would rather
hoe corn than carry bod any day.
Once upon time dealer from
whom had bought new cultivator
persuaded me to take the set of SHOW ,
els to be ground instead of pounded :
out. He said it would enable me to +
keep the fine polish on the surface, {
nor would it injure the temper of the !
steel. While they were ground to
sharp edge, that edge seemed to
blunt again in very short time, and
was soon compelled to take them in
to be pounded out, anyhow. This
one trial convinced me that while
shovels works all right in
theory it does not work in practice.
The handiest thing about the farm
is ladder, but it is also unhandy if
heavy enough so it is a load for two
men. i used to have hard pine two
by four ladder and it was heavy
enough so it almost ought to have
been mounted on trucks. Later, |
bought a ladder made of Oregon fir !,
and it is so light that one can carry it i
with one hand, yet it is strong enough /
10 hold two men. Such ladder is
handy, while heavy one is not. n
The bee has reputation for being n
ousy and without doubt lives up to it,
out the laying hen should be in the :.
same class. She seems to be busy II
Ill the time, and if we stop to think =,
t it must make her 60 some to pick II
Up stuff enough about the yard to ..
make an egg every day. II
Not long since l had occasion to n,
'ull off some siding that was put on In
lew three years ago, and last year l Il,
pulled of some that had been on for -
eighteen years. AS sure as l am
live the eighteen-year siding still had
more durability left in it. At this
ate of quality decrease, it will soon =
'e up to us to find some new way of he
iding our houses, some way that will
lispense with lumber altogether, or
he stuff will not last long enough for
is to get back to town after some to VI
eplace it. ~
Extremely long pointed shovels are =
liable to give more trouble in trashy