The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-03-02

Our city friends are earnestly dis
cussing the back to farm" move
. ment. wonder how many of then
realize that the farm is many-sided
affair and that few men are able tc
! surround them all? A friend Of mine
told me of the wonderful success he
is now having with a dairy farm. He
says he is now making nice profit
every year, while in previous years,
as crop raiser and beef cattle pro-
Queer, he seldom made as much as
his hired man did.
A young man in my neighborhood
has been raising corn, and corn alone,
for several years, and getting ahead
at it, too. But last year he found that
his yield was considerably less than
that of another neighbor who kept a
goodly number of cattle. Now he is
buying few good cows, and will try
the plan of selling less corn and keep
ing the fertility of the farm up.
1t is wonderful what little care
will do. A farmer gave two mother
less little pigs, with which he did not
care to fuss, to little girl. After
feeding the young porkers for two
weeks on exclusive bread and milk
diet, the girl tided them safely over
the critical period. She kept care
full account of all the food used until
they were sold, for forty dollars, and
found that even if she would have had
to settle with her father for the grunt-
ers' board bill, she would have been a
neat little sum to the good. They
were the latest hogs that left the farm
that year. ,~
A neighbor of mine has a good-sized
bank account. Instead of loaning this
money he is going to use some of it
this summer in thing a thirty-acre
field that will be greatly benefited by
it. A home investment of this sort is
the best place to put some of the sur
plus money. if a farmer is blessed
with surplus.
The one-crop farmer, no matter if
that crop be w heat or corn, if it is
grown exclusively for the shipping or
elevator market, has been rightly
called a three-months millionaire and
a nine-months pauper. The farmer
who feeds the grain he raises usually
mas something coming in every month
IN the year.
One would think the machinery de-
nand would become partly satisfied
after a while, but l verify believe the
demand for new machinery is greater
every year. At any rate, dealers seem
o be getting ina larger stock this
spring than ever, whether they sell it
" not, but they very likely will.
know a man who says help cost /.
i'm just as much twenty-five years 4
60 as it does today; not as much, of
curse, in dollars and cents, but it
ook just as many bushels of corn or
Wheat or Just as many pounds Of pork
nd beef to buy a months time Of
ired man as it does now. When
ired men could be had for $13 a
Month corn was worth twelve to fiji
cen cents a bushel and live stock in
never had much success patching
p stand of clover on foul land.
Ifter several attempts l adopted the
Ian of leaving the stand as it was or
lowing it all up. Here of late the
oxtail has given me trouble in thin
lover, and has caused me to perma-
emily abandon the idea of building
p half stand of clover by patching
l. While none of us have as weedy
elds as we used to heve, l am begin
ing to believe weeds are better than
,xtail. It chokes out small clover
lat is lacking in root growth quicker
ian most weeds.
NOBODY SPARED.