The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-04-06
FARM BURROWS.



Two dry springs in succession
should not scare us into fits, bu
rather remind us of the good old time'
before the seven years of mud.
One of the beauties Of the grair
drill is that the seed bed can be pre-
pared before sowing the seed. In
broadcasting the usual method is te
scatter the grain and cover with the
disk. In this way very little work
can be done early in the season nc
matter how fine the weather may be.
Thirty grain drills were sold by the
two implement concerns located in a
little town near here this spring. Per-
haps the main reason for the demand
for grain drills is that, at present, it
looks as though we are to have an
other dry season. Another reason is
that grain drills have "made good
with those who have used them.
One of the new features on pulver-
izers this year is that they are equip
ped with hard oil cups. Now if some
genius would make the bearings abso-
lutely dirt-proof he would, no doubt,
be able to spend the rest OF his days
in ease, as far as money getting is
concerned, and would receive dead
loads of thanks from the farmers.
Next to the tanning mill the drag
cart is perhaps the worst enemy OF
weeds. Not that it is much of a cul-
tivator, but where one is owned it
often causes the farmer to put in that
extra lick with the drag that repre-
SCENTS the difference between fair
and an excellent job of putting in
small grain or preparing seed bed
for corn.
1t is little late now to mention the
necessity of treating seed grain for
smut, because by the time this is read
a great deal of the grain will be in
the ground. 1t is a job that is easily
and quickly done though, and in
many cases pays nearly as we'll as
the use of the tanning mill.
There are smut-cleaning machines
on the market that are advertised to
do the work more rapidly and better
than can be done by the old method
recommended by our experiment sta
tons, but the old way is very good if
one only makes start.
Spring is the busy time all over the
country. Here in the grain belt we
keep on the move to get our small
grain sown, while back east they keep
moving during "sugar weather. to
save all the sap. We hardly work all
night to get our grain in, as they do
in the sugar camps to boil the sap and
make ready for the next days run.
Many who work short-handed are
compelled to do this.
The man who has more land under
his charge than he can cultivate well
has several acres too much, and he
should let loose some of it to the man
who is able to farm it well. The
land-owning idea has been overworked
in some localities until some farmers
have more land than they can handle,
yet they don't want to let anyone else
try farming some of it.
Some students in economics say
many of the people are now living too
fast; in other words, living beyond
their income. believe this is the
case in the cities more than in the
country, yet once in while a family
is found in the country that think
they must live, dress and have all the
things that others with twice their
income have. It's all in lifetime,
they say, and there is but one life to
live here.
While the pure food laws have cur
tailed the sale Of many limitations un-
der the name of the genuine, sus-
pect there is still plenty Of Vermont
maple sugar sold that never came
from farther east than Chicago. AT
one time there was a great stir over
the possibility Of making maple sugar
flavor out of corn cobs. l tried it, but
being a Yankee by birth, it tasted no
more like the genuine maple to ME
than ordinary brown sugar favored a
bit with extracts.
There are farmers who are afraid
that the hog business is again due to