The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-15
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stcckman.

| Farmer and Stock
1t is good many years since vege-
tation of all kinds was as far advanced
as on Decoration Day, this year. 1t
almost seems that a master hand had
been at work decorating Mother
Earth for this particular day.
1t looks now like another short hay
crop, but the man who has silo does
not pretend to fear that. have not
yet heard of any of my neighbors
feeding silage to their horses, but
they are using it as feed for about
everything else, even to the chickens.
They say it is the next thing to having
June pasture in January.
The array of corn cultivators at the
implement dealers this year is enough
to turn a mans head. There are
walking, riding and combination cult
vators. Also four, six and eight-shovel
plows. The surface cultivators seem
to find ready sale, but the two-row
cultivator does not go" in this
vicinity.
Combination tools are seldom good
at either of the things they are intend
ed for. The combination cultivator
that is intended for both walking and
riding generally has beams that are
too heavy to handle as walker and
the extra contraptions make it UNI
handy as rider.
Cutworms have been very busy at
their work of cutting down the yield
of this years corn crop and where
they are present they are pest that
is hard to contend with. Dragging
frequently will do some good, espe-
cially if our feathered friends can be
induced to follow the drag.
The use of woven-wire fencing will
teach us a few lessons in fence build
ing in time. One of the first lessons
will be that end posts cannot be too
we'll braced. On windy days when
an eighty-rod fence is filled with
weeds, husks and other trash there is
a strain on the posts that is hard to
estimate.
The problem of drinking water for
live stock is with us in summer as
we'll as in winter. Old Sol looks after
the heating part of the water now,
but how to keep it clean and fresh
enough so that we could drink it our
selves without shutting our eyes is the
question now.
When mice are bad on the corn and
the corn is up, about as good rem
ady as have ever found is to cult
vate. This bothers the little rascals
d locate the object of their digging,
md great many times depredations
will stop as soon as the field has been
cultivated once. A few try scattering
poisoned corn over the field, but this
S quite apt to kill many of our most
yaluable birds.
notice the rows are crowded close
ogether in some fields. If there is
that is nuisance it is the
lose corn row. Cultivators work
mean, and even to the very last, when
corn, the wagon rides down
he row and makes husking harder
Oh.
If anyone can explain why the wild
ruit that grows on farm is consid-
red "free, pitch in" Iwish they would
o so, for my benefit and the benefit
f others. There is creek on my
lace, with considerable wild fruit
among the timber, but in /;
rider to get any of it our folks are .
to take the same chance
18th the trespassers. Many times l
ome outsider has beaten us in the
ice, and the gooseberries or wild I
are all gone. {
When horse learns that hedge /.
My scratches a little he is not at all
mid about pushing his way through.
have couple Of five-year-olds that
DIV care no more for hedge than for
, much brush that is without thorns.
efore turning them in the pasture
yain l will be compelled to side-trim
rty rods of hedge and string wire
e whole length. All they ask is
'om enough to walk between the
edge stumps; the side branches do
1t bother them in the least.
The way to sell anything is to get
1t among prospective buyers and do