The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-22
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.

Don't stay in the fields till it is so
late you are all tuckered out when
you start in to do the milking. If
you do you are sure to slight the job,
which will mean not only less dairy
products at present, but will WELD a
most deteriorating influence on the
herd by causing a gradual falling off
in milk production.
To guard against typhoid germs be
sure to give the we'll or cistern a
good cleaning out, which may not only
save your paying big doctor bill, but
even prevent the loss of some men,
Der of the family,
Year after year you will notice that
most Of your neighbor farmers leave
their stack-yard fences right in the
field, around the hay, till time to NOW
the meadow again. And what a job
it is then to move the fences after
they once become settled in the tim
othy grass.
Look up the price of horse, then
that of an automobile ten years ago.
By comparing their relative values to-
day do you see much danger of our
faithful horse becoming extinct or I'M
profitable to the farmer?
Some of our scientists (?) say that
flies really are necessary and bene-
ficial, but we are going to keep right
on scrapping with them Cloth the flies
and the long-haired scientists) with
good screen doors, fly traps, tangle-
foot and cleanliness.
A Missouri friend wants Burrows to
tell him how to kill out Usage orange
hedge. | wish someone would tell
Burrows how to do it, for | have
Struggling bushes growing alongside
a hedge that have sprouted from ex-
posed roots, that would very much
like to get rid Of. Who can help us
both?
AS the young poultry get well feath-
cred teach them to leave the crowded,
filthy coops, and fly up to roosts in
the hen house. They will be less
susceptible to lice and mites, enjoy
better health in general, and develop
more rapidly than by remaining in
the coops.
One of the surest plans for keeping
rid of the troublesome mites is togive
tho poultry buildings thorough
spraying about every ten days, keep
the roosts clean and the droppings
we'll cleaned out.
Calves that are fit only for veal
should be marketed early, as the price
is then higher than it is few weeks
later, and this, with the feed saved
by early marketing, insures consider
ably more profits than to hold the
calves till they are larger.
While the potatoes are in full
bloom, showing which vines are
strong, vigorous, and most likely to
propagate sturdy plant next season,
stick small boards beside these ohoic-
est hills, and dig them separately for
seed this fall.
1t isn't too late yet to fertilze the
grape vines, but you will need a sort
of balanced fertilizer. Stable manure
alone produces too rank a growth.
Common wood ashes will furnish the
required potash, and with light
sprinkling Of poultry droppings, pro-
duces the highest quality and greatest
quantity of fruit possible.
Already we are beginning to slip
about a pint of shorts and about one
half that amount OF corn-chop into the
trough of the skim-milk calf. A pint
Of oats added to this makes a ration
that cannot be beaten.
If anyone is anxious to do some fly !
swatting he does not need to do much
hunting to find the flies; they are 8
mere, there and everywhere and al =
ways busy.
We have been having some bully :
or the corn" weather, but fat man :,
on the sunny side of city :
street when the thermometer is trying /,
o make a new record is liable to call +
t something else. .
Unless a crop scare" develops a
alter on in the season, the man who s
las been holding his corn for a high Il
r price will keep right on holding it,
t least until another summer, if he n
,ets it. With a normal yield over the 2