The Butler weekly times., 1911-04-27
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FARM FURRO OWS.

Farmer ana Stoekma0.
It's a poor time to think about
cleaning grain after the seed has been
sown.
Every rain now costs money and
some of them make money. Those
that are needed make money, but
they all cut down the time in the
field, and time now is valuable.
Inever like to be obliged to turn
cattle out on pasture until they can
get a full feed. A taste of green
spoils the appetite for dry feed. The
cow with an appetite that cannot be
satisfied does little good, either for
herself or others.
The fly-swatting season will soon
be here. About the hardest swat
that can be given is to remove the
manure piles and heaps of rubbish
that furnish breeding places for the
swattee.
In building dairy barn one Of the
main points is to see that it is light
enough. A dark stable is nuisance.
Darkness and warmth do not always
go together, but darkness end damp
ness often do. .. # =
Anyone who is poor Judge OF how
much work horse can stand at the
beginning Of the season should make
a practice of walking behind the ma
chine he is using. Both horses and
men are a little "soft" in the spring
and should work accordingly.
We are told that a weed is plant
out of place, but that does not make
them any easier to kill.
Weeds may not be Of any use, but
they keep us pretty busy during the
corn-growing season. Perhaps the
majority of the farmers make weed
killing their chief aim in cultivating
corn, which, no doubt accounts for
the deep cultivation that is still prac-
ticed to some extent.
Early dragging of fall-plowed
ground that is intended for corn will
conserve moisture and also invite the .
weeds to make start. When time !
comes to make the seed bed for corn {
the disk will do things to these weeds 6
that no corn cultivation can. c
A letter from New England friends (
tells of prices for farm products not
far different from what the prairie
farmer gets. When l was getting
twenty-three cents for butter fat the
New Englander was getting only
twenty-five, and eggs were eighteen
there when twelve here. AS dairy
ing is the main thing back there, the
low price must be cutting down deep.
| am sure it costs more to produce a
pound of butter fat in New England
than it does anywhere in the corn
belt
The mule, be he the Missouri, Iowa,
Kansas or Nebraska variety, is a
profitable creature to have about the
farm these days, but just as full O \ \
devilment and as much of nuisance as n
ever. just to ''have around" l /
would rather raise two horse colts
than one mule colt, but if there is \
any rustling or roughing to be done, \ \
there is no question but what the y
mule will come out of it the best.
Those who pretend to study condi- :,
tons that affect markets say farmers II
have been paying too much attention
to the steer end of the cattle raising N
and not enough to cows to keep up N
the race. This is going to bring g,
about the aeattle sfaeftagen that that is is Il
promised for the future. To what n,
extent this theory will hold good, the e
future alone will tell, but do know q,
of many who used to be raisers Of cat
tie who now are only keepers Of cattle. -
The man who has produced entirely
all he places on the market gets all
the price for himself; he doesn't have T
to divide a greater part of it with
the man who has bought steers, keeps a
them a year, then sells them again. =
| can remember when dozens of my
neighbors raised from twenty to forty n
calves each spring, and now all these