The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-02-09


the boy on the farm.
No one who intends to build a silo
should be discouraged because he
hears that some other farmer has
filled his silo once then joined the
''neveragain" club because his silage
was unfit for hog feed. There are
such cases on record, but compared
with those who have made a success
Of feeding silage they are in a hope
less minority.
Many mistakes have been made in
putting up silage in the past. Filling
the silo with corn that is
too green is one of them and failing
to make the sides absolutely air tight
is another. A small sized knot hole
has been known to spoil nearly
cubic yard of silage.
The good roads question is being
discussed more or less of late. It
will be noted that those who do not
pay any road taxes and even try all
kinds of lodges to get around work.
ing their poll tax are just as loud in
expressing their opinion on the road
question as anyone else. In few
weeks we are liable to have the real
thing in bad roads, then, no doubt,
the discussion will end for awhile.
A man can work out his own saliva
ton best with his own tools, instead
of with tools borrowed of his neigh
bors and kept until the owner is COM
PEELED to call for them. The worst
jolt l ever got was when man came
to borrow my self-binder. He was
very careful to state: too, that he
didn't want to hire it, but just to bor-
row it.
Sometime a man can pick up bar
gain in a secondhand piece of ma
chinery at public sale, and again he
"gets not what he believed. p" Stand
ard makes are usually in shape to
speak for their own value, but a man
must be able to Judge Of the shape.
Sometimes machine is old after only
two years of use.
An old neighbor of mine, now in an
other state, writes that his wife is a
wonder when it comes to buying stuff
with the chicken money. He had
just figured up that she had bought
over $500 worth of furniture, clothes
for the children and groceries for the
family, during the year just ended,
while the actual sale of eggs and
chickens amounted to $l35. He says
his wife does not mean to iuggle
figures. but gets excited when telling
what all she has bought and gives the
credit all to her chicken raising.
February first is the halfway place
in the feeding season, according to
the sayings Of our fathers. If that
proves true this year it will cause
some rejoicing on part of those who
feared that they would be short of
feed before spring.
Here it is February and the fruit
crop has been killed only twice. 1t
is usual to have the fruit killed at
least seven times before this and sew
en- times during March and April.
Ben Franklin, otherwise known as
''Poor Richard" "did" this little
rhyme: February, second day; half
the grain and half the hay" Grain is
more plentiful with many than is hay,
his year. While the grain market
las shown signs of weakening at
lines, hay holds right up to stiff
price. The summer drouth was hard
n on hay than on corn, it seems.
Three years ago one of my neigh
,ors beat the weather at killing his
ruit crop. He neglected to wrap his
,oung trees and the rabbits girdled
hem completely. In this case the
ruit crop for all time to come was
tut down and out on those trees.
For the last week l have been nurs-
full-fledged case of the grip, pet
ing a well-developed boil on the back
f my neck and trying to keep up
With the chores, while all outdoors
as been a glare of ice underfoot and !,
misty fog overhead. Don't wonder :
some of this weeks burrows are
rocked and poorly turned.
l always feel sorry for the rural .
rec delivery man when the roads be- :
in toget bad in the spring. It seems s
, me it must be a very tedious prop :,
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