The Butler weekly times., 1911-05-04
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stockman.

There are states lin the South tina
protect crows and states that provide
a bounty for crow heads. Now thai
Mrs. Burrows is trying to raise gooo
sized flock Of chickens we think the
bounty plan the best. Let wise old
crow get the chicken habit and he is
worse than any hawk.
Some of the neighbors are running
short on rough feed before pasture
time, while others will have fodder
to burn. Having a lot of fodder left
one spring, stacked it up in big
rick. It kept over summer apparent
ly bright Lut I noticed the cattle con.
sidered it stale eating. l imagined it
was to them very much like storage
eggs are to us.
Trying to raise garden and raise
poultry, close together and without a
fence between, is discouraging bust
ness, yet know of many eaanest,
hard-working women who are trying
to do it. l pity the woman who is
laboring under such difficulties, and
with good fencing as cheap as it now
is, the husband should feel cheap
himself for letting the wife do it.
have always noticed the man who
says he can raise corn and sell it and
buy more potatoes on the same
ground is usually out of potatoes
every time he goes to town, and he
buys few at time, because the
price always looks big to him.
This is called the fast age. Be-
cause it is, too few of us are patient
enough to wait for the profits that are
sure to come from an artistical grove,
well set and cared for. Most
folks are becoming so they even lack
the patience to wait for fruit trees to
bear, therefore set out no orchards
A man is much more apt to get out
and drag good grade for the glory
there is in the work than he is the
poor grade, and the poor grade al
ways needs the most. So the rule
works all through life.
1t is a fact that the man who can
least afford it usually pays more for
poorer living than the man of more
means who uses good judgment in
his purchases. am neither rich
nor poor man, but find save con-
siderable in the course of a year by
buying in quantities, thus getting the
benefit of the quantity price. Goods
not perishable can be bought at saw
ing in quantity lots yetas many as ever
buy in ten and twenty-five-cent lots.
A post is better driven than it is
set, unless something prevents driv-
ing. Time was when l thought a
fence post had to be set in hole
cal efully and nicely dug for it. The
last time l set posts the weather
turned wet and some horses in the
pasture leaned every last one of the
posts outward at an angle of about 81
degrees.
Likewise, referring to the above
experience, l learned at the same
time that every woven-wire fence, no
matter how high, needs a barb wire
along the top. l strung high woven
wire on those posts and put no barb
wire above it. The horses soon
learned that the woven wire made
good neck rest and they could eat
fresh grass on the outside at the same
time.
Flowers in the front yard bring in
no dollars and cents, while pigs do.
| only guess at this, but presume that
was the reason for pig yard l saw
recently in front Of quite a decent
looking farm house. was told the
man had neat bank account and no
debts, so the pig in the front yard
was not a part of the
to clear the farm of mort
yage.
One Of the most windy days last
week saw a hustler (?) sowing grain
With Strowbridge seeder. He was
ust making things fly all right, but it
truck me that he could have done as
.ood job by having the grain loose
n the wagon box and throwing it into ,
he air with a scoop shovel as the !
cam walked along.
II is not pleasant to work in the