The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-03-09
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockmsn.

us about everything IN the weather
man catalog in order to please every
body.
1t is not a good plan to put off the
seed cleaning until nearly time to be.
gin seeding. There are many things
to look after about that time of the
year, and if everything is left until
the last minute the seed cleaning is
liable to be neglected.
Some of the advocates of a special
seed grain plot are claiming that the
large grains selected by the tanning
mill will produce short heads with
only few large grains, thereby re-
ducing the yield instead of increasing
it. Their plan is to 60 into the field
of ripe grain and select some of the
largest and best heads they can find
and store them away to SOW on a
specially prepared plot Of ground to
raise the seed for the next years
crop.
There are few who object to the
use Of the grain drill, because, &C.
cording to their theory, it gives the
weeds chance to come up between
the rows to grain and get a start be-
fore the grain is big enough to shade
the ground. The users of the drill,
however, don't seem to worry any.
If the damages caused by cattle,
horses and hogs breaking through
poor fences could he collected and
spent in building real fences almost
every farm would be we'll fenced and
equipped with modern gates.
And again, if the time that is spent
in chasing after cattle, horses and
hogs that have broken through fences,
that are not real fences, could be
spent, in building good fences, they
would be we'll built and there would
be time to spare.
The chronic loafer cannot see any
sense in the old saying that "time is
money" Taking his own case as an
example, he has 1.-the time there is,
but money is usually scarce article.
The hired man who makes prac-
tice of smoking while doing chores
about the barns should be fired be-
fore he has occasion to explain just
how it happened that he set fire to
the hay or straw in the barn.
The farmer, as a rule, is not inter-
ested in politics, but some of them
have noticed that many deadlock
has been unlocked with key, part of
which looks something like this 5.
The tongue truck for disk harrows
has come into such general use that it
is now regarded as part of the ma
chine. The tongue truck for binders
is not in such general use, but if the
horses could do the buying they
would be.
A friend in the next township
sprung a new idea on me one day
last week. He puts a small quantity
If dry, air-slacked lime into this hog
'eed}every day, and thinks it does
hem lot of good. As an instance
If its influence, he said that last fall
le had bought young male hog
which ranted and fretted until he be-
yan to lose flesh and thrift. Under
he lime treatment he soon quoted
Town and began to grow and lay on
lesh.
Sometimes the local papers calling
lpon the farmers to drag the roads
ound ridiculous. Once | went to
own and found the very worst trav-
ling in the streets instead of in the
ountry highway, and at that time the
'aper of that town was dinging at
he farmers to drag the roads.
This is the age of double-row tools.
Iearly everyone who buys a stalk
utter now buys a double-row ma 6
hine. For a few dollars more the
apacity of the machine is doubled,
nd that is made back in short order
! the time it takes to cut, or rather,
le time it does not take to cut 100
creS of stalks. ,
If you have had trouble keeping
le ends on small hog troughs, try 9
lstening them with wire. Nail the 1
nds on in the usual way, then bind
ire lengthwise, fastening in place T
18th small staples. No. II galvanized
ire is the kind to use for the ordi- G
ary small trough.