The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-03-16
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stockmsn.

FARM EUNnOWO.
Farmer and stoekman.
know farmer who has been sci.
ling steer calves at ten and eleven
months of age as high as 5000
and $40 per head. His plan is to lei
the calves suck six or seven months
and after that they are somewhat
heavily grained. but their rapid gains
make very economical increase. II
a cow can be kept on two acres and
will raise a calf like that every year
she can surely be handled at profit
off our high-priced land.
don't know of any other imple-
ment about which there is so much
difference of opinion as there is con-
corning the two-row corn pillow.
There are those who believed a good
workman can do just as good work
with a two-row as can be done with a
single row while others have no
patience whatever with a double
cultivator. believe if the time ever
comes that our land is free from an
nual weeds, the two-row pillow will
displace the others absolutely, but
until that day comes many will con-
tinue to work away on one row.
The still-running machine does its
work with less fiction. An engine,
especially, is sustaining vital shocks
when it does its work with much fuss
and noise. I like to hear any machine
run still and to see that it is getting
Eplenty of oil.
II is told of one man who bought
an automobile not long ago that he is
too stingy to buy sufficient oil for it.
That man will not have still-running
auto for long, and before great
while his repair bill will become
large. Oil is cheaper than repairs,
no matter for what kind of a machine.
Fifteen cents for eggs out on the
farm and thirty cents at the consum-
er's house in the city doesn't look
right but it has been happening that
way very much here of late. The
middlemen seem to have been taken
with determination to give everyone
little extra twist, here of late.
1t is more profitable to dig holes in
the dirt and fill them up again than to
get out and work land that is too wet.
Now that the "drouth has been brok-
en-" the temptation will be great to
work the wet fields before they have
dried enough, in order to get the oats
in early.
The assessor will soon be making
his annual rounds, asking all manner
of personal questions, which the law
requires. That part of the business
may suit some of them, but it would
not suit me. l have found it a pretty
good plan to get along without asking
a neighbours personal business, but it
seems to suit some folks to be dele
gated by law to do that very sort Of
thing. l wouldn't be an assessor for
S. day. 1
Taxing farm mortgages is subject
that has been receiving good lot of
attention this winter. Many now ad-
vocate that not taxing them would
lower the rate of interest just that
much, and as the average mortgage
returned to the assessor represents a
double taxation to that amount, l
don't know but what the plan has its
good points. The owner of the mort
gage pays on the amount of the mort
gage, besides.
It is always a good plan to know
that your seed corn will grow very
we'll we'll wf1en you really don't know it.
Test it-that's the sway to find out.
Once a friend of mine sent for a
bushel of cane seed, to sow in small
hog lot. His small boy planted few
grains in pan, just in play. None
of it grew, and the father happened
to notice it. This started a further ]
test, with the result that it was found
not one seed in a thousand would
start sprout. The work of sowing
it and the loss of the time waiting for
it to sow what it was represented the
savings in making a simple test 1t
doesn't pay to guess at the vitality Of
seeds.