The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-03-23
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockmsn.

Farmer and Stockman
l wonder if the man who believe
in sowing grass seed on the ''last
snow has his seeding done. The al
swer might give us an insight into tn
weather that is to be.
The best thing l have done in
long while was to haul up big STAG
of fodder just before the three day
of rain and the big snow. The oil
saying is, "A fool for luck" and
was certainly luck on my part, for
do not pretend to forecast the weather
All the faith l ever had in will
ducks as weather prophets has van
ished. Just before the snow (mor
than at any other time this winter
they were flying in great flocks, ap
parently anxious to get out of tn,
South. They went back faster thar
they came, however.
There must be something in getting
tongue truck to fit the disk. A
neighbor complained that he could
not make his disk harrow cut as deep
as it should. He took off the tongue
truck and the disk was then all right.
Undoubtedly the coupling Of the disk
to the truck was too high or too low.
The coupling arrangement should be
adjustable as to height.
Talk about hard luck, one of my
neighbors wished to move when the
roads were good, but his children
were having the measels then. When
the last one had fully recovered the
rains began. The way of the moving
renter is not always smooth.
For time it did not seem that the
price of pasturage kept pace with the
price of land, but the man with a car
load or two of steers to put out on
rented pasture finds that he is getting
nothing for less than cost now. The
time may come when good pasture
will return as much per acre as good
corn or small grain. l know of some
men who have been on the jump to
hire pasture, and they have found
none to date.
Those who love to juggle figures
ell us there is great scarcity of cat
lie in the country. This being true,
With pasture land as scarce as it is
low, what would the scarcity amount
o with full supply of cattle? There
S no question but what the corn belt
las gone more heavily than ever into
;orn growing, and the time is not far
IF when the pasture acreage should
,e increased.
Once made by mudding in piece
# oats, but only once. Probably
ave lost ten times as much by doing
again should be easy to keep down '
ow, yet the sight of a neighbor out !
the field at work always put a man I
n nettles in the spring Of the year. T
If he can work, I can, is not always t
easonining. +
Having only three colts to run in a a
ard, and two large ones that will
Ike their place in the harness after T
lis, the five were left to run in the O
ame yard with the cattle this winter, e
ut it will not happen so again. On n
I'D mornings those colts have taken S
articular delight in running the cat S
e. Next winter they 60 into yard e
I'd shed of their own. '
There are two points in favor of the :,
rain drill that are many times over Il
oked. The seed is covered and the "
b done as far as the drill goes-no Il
ed uncovered when night comes and o o
storms before morning. The other Il
'int in the drills favor is its disre-
lrd of the wind, for no matter how
lrd the spring wind blows seeding
n be kept right on just the same.
If it were not for the fact that the
asons have usually taken good care
our crops as far as weather was
ncerned in the past, there might be
me cause foruneasiness this spring.
lie ground was dry last fall and we
we had very little snow this winter,
It no doubt "Jupe" will turn his
loose when we need the
in.
The ground hog had better stay in
hole this year because he is entirely