The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-08-03
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stock man.

FARMER ana St0ckman.
Some spell it drouth and some spell
it drought, but to the man who has t.
haul water for fifty head of cattle
means the same thing.
IF it rains at the accepted time fo1
sowing turnips," said seed dealer
mo one will have seed enough tt
supply the demand. Every one is
going to SOW a few turnips, it seems,
to help out the potato scarcity. Mos
Of my potatoes are going to be turnips
this year.
A longtime Oklahoma friend OF
the Burrows family writes that his
pigs have plenty Of shade and water.
So will mine, and a part of the time
they've had all the forty-mile-an-hour
warm air they cared to inhale. In
figuring up what he had for his pigs
to subsist upon he undoubtedly
overlooked this.
A dry July usually means a good
crop of clover seed, but | am rather
afraid mine will make no seed because
the dry weather has overdone it a
little, good deal, in fact. Ihave the
hogs on one field now, having turned
the harvesting of the seed crop over
to them. They are welcome to what
they can get, which is mighty little.
Clover seed and all grass seed bids
fair to be high priced in the spring.
| notice the corn is not as good this
year on the winter blowing as it is on
fall blowing or spring plowed ground.
Why this has turned out in this way
| am at a loss to explain, but only
know that it has, at least as far as |
have been able to observe. Next
year it may be exactly the opposite,
which is proof that one can usually
tell best afterwards what is best.
Forecasts are never infallible, not
even by the self-conceited weather
prophets.
Some of the city consumers are
on the advance of dairy
especially milk. They scent
A combination Of all dairymen to put
up the price, but happen to know
that King Drouth is the combination
that is responsible for the increase in
price. When man must feed his
cows in dry lot, through the months
Of June and July, he can not produce
milk for the same old price, but some
Of the city folks do not like to think
that the effect of the dry weather is
going to reach them in any form.
have a friend who has kept his
potato patch irrigated from well all
through the dry weather, and yet he
ellis me he is not going to have many
potatoes. He has concluded that we'll
water is not the right kind to irrigate
With. He says that while he is able
O keep the soil moist by running the
water in bitches, the moisture has not
to do much good. Nothing
Ices so much good as water that falls
rom the clouds. 1t is natures way
# keeping the soil moist, and usually
he artificial does not surpass or even
quail the natural.
Everything shows the effects of
he drouth except the weeds along
he roadside. These seem to be
earring up remarkably well. Now is
good time to swat them. They
i've very ugly look to what might
therwise be splendid road.
can not remember time when
assures were as short during the
asturing season as they are at
resent. Many of the upland pastures
re as bare as plowed field and the
attic are on winter rations.
The thirty-nine-inch woven-wire
,nce with one barbed wire at the
ottom and one or two at the top !
lakes a fence that is a fence all
ght. The farmer who turns his
little into a lot that is enclosed with a
ell-built fence of this kind may feel
) sure as keeping them where they !
elong as if he had them tied in the J
arm. r
If there is as little use for the snow {
lovel next winter as there is for the
wn mower this summer the shovel !;
akers would do we'll to take long T
lcation.