The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-09-28
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stock man.

his is one place Wnere DarOeQ wiz
may be put out of sight and thos
who have had horses or cattle mutila
ted in barbed wire fences are glad O
it.
A great many think it rattle
strange that the mail carrier mus
work on Christmas Day and hav'
Labor Day and some other legal holi
days free. 1t is pretty safe bet tina
when we get parcels post the mai
carrier will not be able to carry al
the mail on motorcycle.
Now is good time to see that tn.
pump, the we'll and the windmill are
in shape to supply water through the
winter without any ''fixin'." If there
is any time that is worse than any
other to run short of water it is dur
ing cold, stormy weather
cannot remember any August
when there was as much fall blowing
done in my vicinity as this year. The
cornfields are practically free from
weeds and the farmer who does not
feel that next year is going to be the
best ever" should take vacation
and chirk up bit.
No one can succeed without having
the knack of making money, but in
order to be complete success the
knack of spending money must be
combined with the knack of spend
ing money. Persons who do not
have a fair share of these two knacks
generally have hard time to make
both ends meet.
1t it absolutely painful to see how
some of the aged parents dig and
save in order that their children may
have more money to spend-in many
cases to burn. Perhaps it is the nat
ural love of parents for their off
spring that drives them to it, but to
the bystander it looks like they would
be showing more real love by permit
ting their children to learn the value
OF money by letting them earn it
themselves.
Those who have a rather poor
stand of corn this year are doing con-
siderable growing because their corn
is better than the corn raised by those
who have heavy stand No one
can blame much. Those who are
careless with their seed had better
crow while the Growing is good.
A new thing about corn that can be
noticed in this vicinity is that the
fields that were planted early and
were waist high on the Fourth are
not as good as those that were plant
ed later. Science is great help in
farming, but it can't make weather
that is "bully for corn
Many of us failed to get stand of
tame grass where the seeding was
done last spring and no one in this
has cut any timothy or clover
for seed. 1t looks as though the de-
mand for grass seed will be brisk and
the supply short next spring,
There is no law to compel anyone
to cut the weeds along the roadside
his farm except the law of
common sense. Aside from the fact
that such weeds are an obstruction
to winter travel and an eyesore to a
neat farm it is weed seed patch that
will scatter week seeds to the nearby
fields.
To get away from a telephone line
and not to hear the jingle of tele-
phone bells in a farm house seems
Just like getting away back in the
oackwoods, now. Instead of mice
hing" the telephone has become a
necessity on the farm. | would not
know how to do without one.
have seen very few hay stacks |
his summer and fall. For one thing,
he hay crop has been rather light all
,ver the country, but the folks have
been putting away what they have in
| safer place than in a stack. Those |
With limited NOW room have been
Ealing.
II is best to make haste slowly with
breaking sod ground that is intended
or corn next year in order to break
Up the winter quarters of the cut
worms as late as possible in the fall.
The only way to be good neighbors
o some folks is to not neighbor with