The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-23
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stock man.

spent IN picking up things that may
be scattered around the place at this
time of the year. This is job tina,
cannot be left for snowy day.
It is to be hoped that every farmer
who had corn to cut stayed on the job
long enough to cut supply that will
last through the winter. Where there
is standing corn the sound Of the ears
rafting in the box sounds as pleasant
as it ever did, but we are beginning
to notice the waste of feed in the
stalk field more than ever before.
The miles of hog-tight fence that
were built this year have caused a
great many to try the experiment of
hogging down corn. This is an easy
way to feed the hogs and save the
work of husking and when there is
no snow, very little can be said
against it, but it is possible to overdo
any good thing.
No matter how good the farm build
ings may be the work of doing the
chores seems to be greater when Win
ter first sets in than atany other time.
The cattle must be broke to know
their places and the chore man must
be broke to do his work just right.
When the breaking in is over the
work seems easy.
This year it was not necessary to
spray the apple trees in order to have
fruit that is free from worms. If
spraying will make them that way
every year we should study up on the
question and prepare to spray early
and often.
It was rather amusing to read the
articles in the city dailies urging read
ers to get up early to see the comet
few weeks ago. twas worth getting
up to see on clear mornings, but it
did not seem like an early rising COM
ct to farmers, who were husking
corn.
If anything on earth is more disa-
greeable than walking behind tool
you can ride on | am sure don't
known what it is. There are days,
and frequently at this season of the
year, too, when it is much more disa-
greeable to ride on the seat of a sulky
pillow than it is to walk behind and
drive, however disagreeable that is.
l am. not so lazy that will freeze
rather than walk, but l notice my
legs do not work as smoothly as they
did few short years ago. Riding is |
easier than walking now. =
There is one way to do more harm !
to road than good, which is to make I
a ditch inside Of ditch by the road S
side. Where there is a rather deep Q
ditch to start with, have seen this e
very thing done. The man driving n
the grader does not want to go to the b
trouble of working in the old ditch. II
In year or two this washes deeper I.
and in a short time there is no width q
Of road left. Better do nothing at all O
than to do something that is going to 7
soon prove detriment.
Let me speak again in favor of the
vacuum cleaner. They are without M
question the greatest labor saver that b.
las come into the home in recent al
'ears. They save taking the carpets cl
md rugs up, save making dust in
he room while cleaning and save 1
ime in doing the work. This house la
lold has been blessed with vacuum
cleaner for nearly year, and con- Al
ider that it has already paid for it.
elf in time saved in house cleaning,
o say nothing of doing the work up 81
leaner and better. /.
To keep poultry from roosting over tp'
eed hangers and other places that r!
'ught to be kept clean nail small M
wire four inches above the boad.
An old pan or dish that leaks can
'e fixed by putting in little building
ement properly mixed and used as a
hicken waterer, etc.
find, after having husked so many
rops of corn, that the lower box
ooks bigger to me than the high box
With side boards on top formerly did.
friend suggests that the yield is not
here this year, which accounts for
he slow husking, but am willing to
Omit that some of the slowness is in
he. After fellow gets past thirty,
ven, he loses out with the husking
eg.