The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-02-23
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and S tockrnan.

| firm that has a reputation to maintain
There are swindlers in every occupa
ton and those who have been swindl
ed in buying blooded stock from al
advertisement should lose no time il
laying the facts before the publisher!
of the paper in which the advertise
ment appeared.
Those who find that they canno
farm high-priced land at profit
should begin to sit up and take notice
of their neighbors. Some of them
are farming the same kind of land al
a profit or it would not be so high
priced.
The day of cheap summer pasture
for young stock is past as far as the
corn belt is concerned and the day Of
providing just fodder enough to pull
the cattle through the winter with the
idea of having them fatten up on sum-
mer pasture went with it. The only
way to make cattle pay for their keep
now is to keep them so that they will
be growing all the time.
If the ground hog is reliable
weather prophet it will be necessary
to renew the supply of :'ground hog"
for the larder and see that there is
fuel and feed enough for another six
weeks of solid winter.
In addition to listing property for
taxation the assessors of Iowa are re-.
quired to gather crop statistics. In
talking with our assessor the other
day he told me that wherever he
found good yield of corn seed
corn tester had been used. This was
not surprise to me, but it is thing
to ponder over for those who intend
to take the risk Of planting INFESTED
seed next spring.
l always feel that the handling of
sheep develops the kindly half of
ones nature. | never knew sue
cessful shepherd who was not the
very essence of honor and upright.
ness. For this reason | believe it |
would be better for humanity in gen.
eral if sheep, instead of being raised
in large bands, as they are now,
could be handled in small numbers so
that every farmer could have a few
on hand.
| have had two or three different
horses put out bog spavins as the re-
suit Of handling heavy loads when
they were not accustomed to hard
work and my experience leads me to
the conclusion that these spavins
only develop in a horse that is in
clined to be a little coarse. | have
never seen one on a horse that was
clean in the bone and of good quality
throughout.
l have rarely been able to save
seed corn in such a way that it would
grow 100 per cent strong. Last year
picked my seed in September, hung
it up three weeks in the crib and then
put it in racks in an upper room of
the house. It seemed to be absolute
ly dried out before being stored and
it has never been frozen, but in spite
OF all that care it only terminates !
about go per cent strong. l am ut ,
terly unable to determine what weak i
ened the 8 per cent, though am
happy to say that none of this corn {
was absolutely dead. {
The Iowa Experiment Station has
new way to fatten stock.
All you have to do, according to the a
method discovered by that station, is
10 inject turpentine under the skin in a
he depressions. This results in vio- c
ent swelling and excruciating pain, i
out after time most of the swelling
disappears and we presume most of
he pain, but it leaves the part fuller 9
han it was before the operation. G
This plan was most successfully tried $
,ut by the station in one case where il
was the intention to exhibit the '
'teer in competition with farmers. /,
This might be designated the ''hurry- n
Up" method of fattening cattle. =
Two years ago we made consider S
lble cider at our place and we intend t
ID to sell it in the form Of vinegar 2
ater on. Although it is over two r
'ears old it only contains about 2 per il
:ent Of acetic acid and the standard $