The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-01-19

would summer-fallow turnpike, far
enough to suit me.
One day Of travel after a heavy
rain, then freeze-up, does more to
put the farm farther from the town
than anything else.
Now is good time to visit the
neighbors who are feeding ensilage
and get some information fright Oft
the bat" as to its value as feed and
also as to the work of handling.
What became of the denatured al
cohol that was to revolutionize about
everything as soon as the bill allow
ing its manufacture was passed? AS
far as this vicinity is concerned it has
failed to revolute worth cent.
In the south they pay great deal
of attention to what they call winter
cover crops. The idea is not to leave
the fields bare over winter. In the
north nature covers the earth with
snow. Here, where it is neither
north nor south, strictly speaking, we
are "betwixt and between" One
fall accidental fire burned off the
corner of meadow for me. 1t was
noticed that the grass was not nearly
as good on the burnt-over portion the
following summer, indicating that the
"cover CROP" even if it be only the
aftermath on the meadow, is OF great
benefit.
find that rabbits will sometimes
eat the bark from every large tree in
the orchard, three and four year Odds.
A man is on the safe side only by
wrapping everything in the sapling
stage.
Some of the manufacturers refuse
to place their goods on the market
when prices are so low their profits
are cut down, but a farmer with in
terest and taxes and other debts to
meet cannot do that. If it has cost
him forty cents a bushel to raise corn
and he can sell for only thirty-five, he
is told that he should reduce his cost
of corn growing, and thus make a
profit Queer world, this.
The longer raise hogs the more |
am convinced that selling corn in the
form of pork is the best way. The
hog raiser has his ups and downs, to
be sure, such as eras of low prices or
loss from cholera, but, year after
year, there's money in hogs.
Recently, a subscriber to this paper
inquired about inbreeding hogs.
Since his inquiry appeared have had
some experience with inbred pigs.
There were two litters of them, and
while apparently all right when far
rowed, they began going at the rate
of one or two a night, and now only
four out of fourteen are left. They
T had fine quarters, and | attribute the
loss to lack of vitality, due to the
accidental inbreeding.
A great deal of money has been
lost in experimental work on the
roads. For instance, few years ago
many townships were using large
| glazed tiles for culverts. They were
costly, but it was thought they might
, be very nearly everlasting. Instead,
they soon broke or crumbled under
traffic, and now if one is found in use
, it is on a by-road and in very bad
, condition. Enough was lost on each
= the culvert put in to half pay for an
| everlasting concrete arch.
have lately been doing some in
! vestigation of the gasoline tractor
4 built for general country road haul.
ing and general farm motive power
work. Don't think such machines
are impractical, for they are not.
! They will be the coming power or
the large farm, especially in those
localities where the roads and fields
, never get muddy enough to prove a
serious drawback. These times, the
impractical things of yesterday be-