The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-10-26
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.

All rotten or decaying fruit ane
vegetables in the cellar will have .
deteriorating effect on the flavor anc
keeping qualities of the crop now be
ing placed in storage there. Il
In selecting seed corn don't over
look the fact that the stalk is the
source from whence the ear drew its
sustenance, then study the type Of
stalk that produced the ear you
choose for seed. Note that it is
healthy, vigorous and of the proper
proportions from base to top.
Don't shed machinery haphazard
Put it away in the order you will
need it next spring, oil and repair it,
and next seasons rush work will not
catch you mapping, as it does most
farmers at this time.
Hog wallows are still in vogue, and
always will be, but they demand
some means of drainage, else they
become stagnant, germ-infested
places, unfit for any living thing to
come in contact with.
A subscriber Of Mitchell county,
Iowa, would like to get little advice
from those who have had experience
relating to the advisability of hiring
a shredding outfit or purchasing
small one and doing the work your
self. Iwould be very much pleased
if someone could answer this sub
scriber's inquiry.
1t is reported that the acreage of
sugar beets is to be greatly increased
next year. If the present price of
sugar is an indicator of what the beet
raiser should get for his crop it would
seem that beet raising would be a
short cut to Easy street.
One authority puts the value of hog
manure at So per head per year.
This may be right, but it sounds rath.
er queer to those of us who bark
back to the time when it took fine
300-pound porker to bring that money
in the market.
1t is almost impossible to build corn
shocks that will stand up in our hard
winds unless they are securely tied.
Where the tying has been neglected
and the shocks are twisting down it
means hard work and lots of it to fix
them up and save the crop.
We are hearing a great deal about
soil robbers at present and it seems
that the robbers are not getting
very rich rake-off. Perhaps they
might do better if they would use
sharper tools and more elbow grease.
Our president has honored us with
visit. 1t may be said that he came,
he saw and he-er, yes, perhaps he
lid, but we must wait until later to be {
;ure.
Any leaning or twisting shocks of ,
odder or hay stack tops blown off I
will mean a lot Of high-priced feed {
wasted when the fall rains strike {
hem. r
Be sure you are not keeping two
lead of stock where you have grain T
md roughage to winter only one. S
t is better to keep one animal we'll r
han to half keep two. a
Would it not add to the health of s
Yourself and family if you would Sc e
ect some of the choicest, smoothest
md healthiest hogs from your herd b
nd feed them those rations which o
re clean, pure and wholesome, kill e
hese animals for your winters meat s
upply?
Keep the high-wheeled wagon out h
# the orchard. Not only does it cut c
Up the sod, but it is more apt to Il
rush and peel the lower limbs of the v
rees, and it is great deal more in o
onvenient to pour fruit into than the a
ow-down wagon, with its broad tires. "
Great care should be exercised in h
urning the stock to luxuriant growth al
+ meadow pasture which has been c,
ED in reserve for this season, as it D
Sually is productive of serious diges- v
We arrangements if not carefully c,