The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-08-24
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stpckman.

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Farmer and stockman.
| take no stock in the talk tina
motor cars are fad and will soor
go the way of the bicycle. The motor
car is here to stay, and as the price
becomes more within reach of the
man of ordinary means, or the mar
of ordinary means becomes more
within reach of the price, they will be
more numerous on the farms thar
they are now. l never did like the
idea of keeping an extra team on the
farm, that is now unnecessary. Wher
the roads are so muddy the car can.
not be used the horses cannot be
worked in the fields, so they are in
trim to do the small amount of road
travel farmer has to do at such
times.
Soon will vacation time be over,
and the children will begin again their
long grind in the schoolroom. | can
remember yet how was always anx-
ious for school to begin after vaca-
ton, but sorry after going for week
or two. If there is anything that
"gets" healthy, stirring boy it's to
have to sit in the schoolhouse when
all outdoors, as the poet might say it,
is calling the loudest
Working in the straw pile is long
ways removed from a pleasure excur-
sion in an automobile even in this
day of swinging straw carriers, but
when we think of our dads who used
to poke the straw away from machines
that had no carrier at all we can t
help smiling little when we hear
them speaking of the good, old days
of long ago.
Some tell us there is no use praying
for rain when the wind is in the south
west others, when the wind is in the
north, still others say there is no use
for one man to pray for it to rain on
his cornfield when his neighbor is
praying for sunshine to dry his hay.
Perhaps there is no use in praying for
rain or any other kind of weather. If
we think real hard there may be 9TH
er more important things to pray for.
Judge James W. Witten, of Wash
ington, D. c., will have charge of the
Rosebud land opening of Bennett and
Millette counties, South Dakota, which
will take place in October. The reg
istration date will be from October
End to October 2lst and the drawing
will be at Gregory, S. D., on October
oath.
Commence feeding the new corn
crop by very slow degrees. Even after
the stock become accustomed to eat
ing it, scours are apt to be the result
Of too generous feeding. Mix little
Did grain of some sort with the new
product, and thus guard against va
rious digestive disorders which may
De caused or aggravated by the loosen
ng effect Of the new corn.
1t will pay the farmer big to turn
several boys loose in the cornfield at I
his season with hoes, and let them
lestroy the few remaining weeds
herein, thus guarding against their
!oing to seed, besides making the
orn husking much easier and more
greeable.
Recent rains have made little old
mud to slop around in while
ding chores, but no one is complain
lg about a little thing like that. Real
lud is one of the things the corn belt
lrmer cannot leave entirely out OF
is business.
A heavy rain or rather a soaking
lin after a long siege of hot, dry t
Gather makes everything take on G
wv life. Pastures turn green as if a =
ant painter had been busy with his =
'ush, the cattle seem more satisfied, a
ID even the farmer seems to step C.
ore lively and whistle little louder r
an before. q 3.
All the breeding, selecting and grad y
cannot prevent barren stalks when ::
, weather is favorable to the pro- +,
ction OF barren stalks. There are *