The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-12-28
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stock man.

FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stockman.
Perhaps the reason why so few
farmers do their own butchering is
that there are so many that do not
have the tools to do the work of
butchering with nor to cut up the beef
after the butchering is done. While
it is true that a good set of tools cost
quite bit of money it is a poor policy
to 90 without or to buy a set of tools
that are very little better than an ex-
cuse.
This is the time of the year when
poets begin to MARBLE about, "What
is so rare as a day in June?" Of
course, June days do look rather
good at this time, but some Of us
would rather hear them sing about,
'What is so rare as ton of coal
without any dust?"
After the cattle have picked all the
corn and the greater part of the fin
est feed from the stalk field they
should be fed at least once day. If
they are compelled to pick their liv-
ing from dry stalks alone there is
trouble ahead for the owner.
1t is impossible to guess what the
price of corn or the price of live hogs
will be next spring. If we could it
would be unnecessary for us to go
through the motion of raising corn or
hogs in order to make living.
Roofing paper is coming into gen.
eral use without attracting as much
attention as some of the other build
ing materials. Many an old shed has
been made better than new by cover
ing the roof and walls with roofing
paper. 1t is wind and water proof
and can be applied by anyone who
can climb a ladder and drive nail.
Fussing with soldering iron is IL
able to try the temper of anyone ex-
cept person who knows how and
we are glad that genius has invent
ed soft metal rivet that fills the bill
and the holes in the tinware to per-
lection. All that is necessary is to fit
rivet in the leak, hold an iron on
the head and hammer the other end
and the job is done.
In cold weather | like to have wa
ter for the cattle where they can get
it without having to go outside the
shelter belt, and tank heater still
further improves watering conditions.
Driving cattle quarter or half a mile
to some water hole and making them
drink through hole in the ice is not
calculated to overflow the milkpail.
1t is usually the first cold spell in
the fall or the last one in the spring
that kills the house plants, and pumps
usually suffer about that time, also.
A neighbor of mine once brought
home a new wood pump and that
very night came the cold snap, and
the wood pump, with the vent UNI
open, split from top to bottom. Jack
Frost has way of being mean, some
times.
If you ever take a notion to deepen
your soil by blowing deeper, by all
means do the blowing in the fall or
before the coolest weather of the
winter. A raw soil needs freezing
and weathering before it is in good
condition for crop growing, conse-
quently blowing up new soil in the
spring is a bad thing to do. may
say that this much has come to me
through costly experience.
Corn Smelling used to be mixed up
with a good many mix-ups. The
power was usually some old discard
ed power that had seen better days
with thrashing outfit, and the hors-
es, being more or less frisky in Win
ter time, would either tear it up or
break sweep or two the first time
they were turned loose. Now roll
of the wheel on the gas engine and
the work begins. How different
from the old horsepower!
The hand separator will run great
deal better if kept well oiled with the
best grade of separator oil which
should be kept in a separate oil can,
ordinary machine oil is not oil for a