The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-06-29
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stoekmsn.

CIcdlIcIy StlOulu VIolt TIC OuStCA IMAM
er some day when he is testing the
cream and milk in order to see wha1
science is doing for the dairy industry.
The butter maker will be glad to have
you there because he knows that the
more you know about what he is do.
ing the better it is for both.
1t is not the late cultivation that in.
jures the corn, but the deep blowing,
the breaking and tearing loose of the
corn roots that reach out in every di.
rection from the stalk to draw the ele.
ments to it for sustenance. Stir the
surface soil and maintain the dust
mulch in the cornfield till that pro-
duct tasseIs out, but don't dig down
with the cultivator and damage the
life-giving roots.
There are times when even the
largest sized fly net is not equal to the
occasion. Recently chin flies bother
ed my team until the worry was hard
er than the work. It seems to me
there would be a market for strong
ly made chin net, one that could be
quickly snapped to the bride and
shaped to protect from these flies,
without proving bunglesome.
It is bit of bother to walk some
distance from the house to milk, but
in the summer time, when flies are
bad, it is worth considerable effort to
have the COW corral some distance
from the house, thus contributing
little towards keeping down the fly
pest. There is no question but what
cattle corralled for the night within
ten rods of the house are the means
of bringing more flies.
The boy who would do a good job
of cultivating cannot watch every
team or auto along the road until out
of sight, at the same time keep his
own team walking along. Of course,
boy is excused for "rubbering'
when his girl is in one of the convey
ances, but continual 'rubbering"
means poor work in the field.
An improvement that strikes me as
being the best thing have seen in
long time is a stone-arched culvert,
over a "bad" slough, between my
place and town. The stone arch
means no hump up when the front
wheels strike it and no chuck down
when the hind wheels leave it, and if
it has been made we'll it is safe all
the time and will stand through al
most eternity. 1t is never necessary
to Elk a stone arch culvert by nail
ing a plank on top of hole.
Another short hay crop is inevitable,
was out in the clover recently and
while fairly thick on the ground, it is
very short. Much of the first that
bloomed is we'll filled with seed. 1t
is habit of red clover to seed fairly
we'll at the first cutting when the
spring is somewhat on the dry order.
They are finding so many things
that are unhealthy and bearers of
germs in these days of modern
science that the wonder is the race
survived the time when such things
were unknown. Sometime, somone
said that where ignorance is bliss It's
folly to be wise. Our forefathers liv
ed in blissfur ignorance of the fatal
public drinking cup, the roller towel
and dozen other things that are now
being put on the black list, and they
usually lived to an advanced age, too.
Plenty of whirlwinds are said to be
sign of plenty of dry weather. We
have been having plenty of whirl-
winds lately and plenty of dry wealth
err; also, plenty of signs of rain that
have all failed. It's the dry weather
sign that is the winner, now.
Having to haul water for stock is
doing work for worse than nothing,
since stock rarely does as we'll when
the weather is so dry that stock water
is so scarce it has to be hauled. |
have had my share of water hauling
in years past. Building deep pond
stopped me from hauling water, but
even this deep pond will not last
through July, if July is as rainless as
the past month has been. More than
one of my neighbors is on the water
wagon"
One can see all sorts of ways of
bracing corner posts in going few
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