The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-09
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FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.

A Nebraska subscriber, J. B. Ayll,
gives his method of building crib so
that rats and mice are excluded. He
uses one-half-inch mesh galvanized
wire netting on top of the joists be-
fore the floor is put down and this is
run on the outside of the studding two
feet high before the cribbing is put
On. He claims that if your crib is not
connected with another building you
will never have any trouble with either
mice or rats if you carry out this plan.
There was a time, too, when husk-
ers were more plentiful than wagons.
Something like 20 years ago Iremem-
Der going to town, and on the way
seeing five husking at one wagon,
two on each side and the baby of the
family picking up the down row be-
hind. 1t kept the "old man" busy
shoveling at the crib to keep one of
the two wagons used empty. Now
there are plenty of wagons and the
difficulty is in getting one hand to 90
with each.
1t is also time for the champion"
huskers to begin making records-in
the newspapers. never pretended
to be record husker. Two loads a
day has always "held" me, and l
notice that l get out my share of the
corn by keeping everlastingly at it at
this rate on through the season. The
champion" husker usually husks
corn like crazy man one day and
then spends the next two days in town
telling about it,.
This is another busy fall. For that
matter, there never has been a fall
when the average farmer had much
time for loafing if he would get his
work done before zero weather. For
my part would rather rustic little
while the weather is fine than to have
to rustic with a foot Of snow on the
ground. The agent that visits this
farm in corn husking this fail is going
to get short answer. There is no
great crop left on the standing stalks
to husk, but I am going to get out
what there is before winter sets In
this time, if possible.
Ground has never plowed better
than it is blowing now, another piece
of work that furnishes steady employ
ment when there is a lull in every
thing else. notice that more of my
neighbors are taking the time to pillow
deeper than usual, some of them turn
ing up soil that never has seen the
light of day before. 1t is all right to
pillow deep in the fall, but never have
thought much of blowing real deep in
the spring. Raw soil needs time to
weather and "cure" before being
planted.
The last few days of wet weather
has touched the corn fodder in great
shape. Some of the shocks have
shrunk within themselves until they
look barely half as large as when first
set. 1t seems to me that the fodder
has shrunk in the shock an uncommon
lot this fall, partly because the stalks
did not bear as many leaves as usual
this year. There are many who will
be short on rough feed by spring if
we have one of those old-fashioned
winters, whatever that may be.
If every machine was kept in per-
feet trim all the time, properly and
sufficiently oiled and the bearings kept I
clean, l doubt not that manufacturers
would find their sales cut squarely in
two. It's surprising how much longer
some farmers can make the same
style of machine last than can the
average. AS rule, the machine with
The most oil holes goes to the junk
pile first, an indication that oiling is
generally neglected and is the cause
If most of the grief.
If the sheep are exposed to the chill
aims of autumn, coughs and colds are
pretty sure to hang to them till next
pring.
Considering the small outlay of
money in constructing wood shed,
IS many good points make it one of
he most desirable buildings on the
arm.
1t is self robbery to take a dairy:
ow through the winter when she