The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-12-21
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when the price of corn and the price
of hogs don't balance very we'll and
with the usual result, half finished
hogs on the market and the corn
shelter at the crib. Don't forge, that
the man who makes money in raising
hogs is the man who keeps everlast-
ingly at it.
A few years ago about every issue
of all farm papers would contain one
or more articles warning the farmers
against feeding too much corn to their
hogs. A warning of that kind would
look like "book farming" to most of
us at present. It seems that there is
a difference between feeding fifteen
cent corn and sixty-cent corn to any
kind of stock.
It is rather interesting to read about
the fine records made by the fast
corn huskers every fall, but would
rather read about them than let
husker try his hand at record break
ing in my field. Going over the field
a second time to get the corn left by
the rushing "picker' would not be to
my liking.
Patrons of good, local creamery
have an advantage of those who ship
their cream in that they can have
their COWS tested at any time and as
often as they wish by bringing sam
pies of milk to the buttermaker who
is, or should be, an expert in that
line. Testing and weighing the milk
of each COW at regular intervals is the
only sure way Of finding the ones
that are not paying their way.
Where cows are kept on a farm
and milk or cream is hauled to the
creamery we usually consider that
the farmer is engaged in dairying,
but in many cases this is mistake.
There are still a great many of us
who are going through some of the
motions of real dairyman without
knowing why.
The typewriter is the latest thing
that has broken. into the advertising
columns of farm papers and perhaps
it, like the automobile, has come to
stay.
There are some farmers who are
diligent readers of farm papers and
who seem to be we'll posted on farm
methods who are failures as practical
farmers and there are others who new
err read a farm paper or any other pa
per or book who are successful as far
as the money making part of farming
goes, but both of them are exceptions
to the general rule.
The Hibernal and the Virginia crab
are good stocks on which to graft the
winter varieties of apples and this lisa
kind of grating that no farmer should
be ashamed to dirty his hands with.
1t is interesting work and it is profit
able even if practiced only on a couple
of trees to furnish the best of fruit
for the use Of the family.
Rabbits will soon be doing things to
young orchards if care is not taken to
prevent them. have been told that
small stack of corn fodder in the
orchard will keep them from the trees,
but there are other ways that look
better to me.
The old-fashioned winter, the kind
the prophets are always telling us we
are going to have, is always followed
by good crop year. For this reason
let us not fear the old-fashioned win
ter.
1t has been long, long time, so it
seems to me, that we have all had a
long surplus of corn-the cribs filled
and some piled out on the ground. In
order to have such crop again
would be willing to go through a win
ter of deep snow and cold weather, if
that would bring it.
The growers of sugar beets are get
ting the same old IS ton they got
when sugar sold at $3.50 hundred.
Now that it is 81 hundred it would
seem as if little of the increase
might find its way to the producer OF
the raw material, but, somehow, any
increase in price to the consumer has
way of getting lost on the road down
to the producer of the raw material.
The cotton raiser, likewise, was get