The Butler weekly times., 1911-12-07
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockm man.

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Farmer and Stockmsn.
|, Rusty machinery soon rusts a hol.
in your pocketbook.
Hit-or-miss methods usuaually bring
hit-or-miss results in farming, a.
well as in every other line of bust
ness.
Furnish your hens a variety o1
feed for the winter if you expect
them to furnish the eggs for your
table and market basket.
1t takes extra feed to make those
hogs fatten when their quarters are
so cold that they have to squeal all
night to keep up their circulation and
prevent them from freezing to death.
Keep the narrow-tired wagon off
the meadow land while the sod is so
spongy; use the broad-tired wagon if
necessary to cross the meadow. Also
do not allow the stock to roam around
over it and damage it while it is
muddy.
This is the very time of year when
the farmer grows careless about his
hay in the stack and, as a result, the
fall rains soak in and damage the hay
considerably. Fill up those low
places in the stack or haul the dam
aged ones and store them in the barn.
After it comes solid freeze-up
many a farmer will wonder why in
the world he didn't dig those post
holes that were needed for repairing
fences, buildings, sheds, etc., about
the farm, while the wind whistling in
at the ground around his sheds and
stalls that should have been banked
up before the dirt froze, will forcibly
remind him of his foolhardy procras:
tination.
Make arrangements at once to
have the late calves, which usually
are smaller and weaker than the
others, in separate quarters from the
grown stock during the winter
If they are allowed to run
with the older and stronger stock
hey will be bunted about by them,
cheated out of their portion of the
'eed, and crowded out of the most
comfortable parts Of the shelter, into
he cold, raw atmosphere. Just
such treatment is what causes some
;alves always to remain small, scrub
~ and Improbable, and they often
ire entirely lost before spring opens
up by being thus abused, exposed
md neglected at period when they
most stand in need of the best of care
md feed.
The man who keeps a stretch of
Dad dragged smooth until it freezes
p deserves credit mark as long as
he road he dragS. If there is any
ind of shaking that will jar a mans
eeth loose it is riding over a road
there the road is frozen hard and :
bout as rough as it could be made g
y piling it full of small rocks. h
There is always a great plenty to v
e thankful for, if we will only look g
bout us with a realization of our Il
ood fortunes. For instance, our
rop may not be up to standard this Il
ear, but we are not having to wear c
urselves out husking it, for it is a o
act that ''the short horse is soon Il
urried."
1t is usually believed that wild II
'ater fowls-ducks and geese-are o
ccurate weather prophets, when, in o
eality, they are not prophets at all. a
hey simply start southwark in the a
Ill when "cold norther" strikes
lem, and quickly outdistance the (.
torm, sometimes going through :,
lore southern section of the country Il
day or two ahead of the storm. -
nee in awhile they are fooled into Il
Ding further south than the storm 4
oes, and they drift back north aways 9
/ few days. "
Speaking of rheumatism and duck n
uniting, the next thing after duck "
uniting that will "start it grinding"
husking corn out of the shock. l 4,
D not know but what one will de- . .
elop a genuine case Of it as quickly = =
J the other. Thrashing or shredding -
cheaper than husking by hand and y :,
lrsing continual grip of rheuma- = =
if not rheumatism, certin- 8 8
the grip" ~
An ordinary sheet iron tank heater ..