The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-08-17
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.


binder, with pole truck, and the wa
he waded into big piece of oats an
had it standing in shocks before te
O'Clock in the morning was caution
My little three-horse, six-foot affai
would have taken all day. And hi
horses were scarcely putting.
have resolved to have extra re
pair parts to my binder, such piece
that wear quickest, always on hand
This summer l lost one whole da,
because little spring gave out OF
me and had to take a trip to thu
shop nine miles away, only to fine
that the par was not in store.
When seeding clover be careful
not to have your nurse crop too thick
| had four fields nicely started this
spring, two with oats and two with
barley. The barley pieces held {
much less rank growth than the oats
ground with the result that in the
latter the clover has dwindled down
sadly. On our farm barley has prov.
en- uniformly better nurse crop than
oats, anyway.
1t is not always the neatest plow-
man who does the best job. 1t is a
little harder on the horses to just
turn the burrows on edge in a rough
looking mass, but the soil can be
titled better and there is less soil
washing because the ground will
hold more rain. Try it and be con-
WINGED.
Cheese factories have rather hard
shedding of it in my neighborhood.
All the farmers are waking up to the
value of skim milk in raising young
stock, and the cheese makers, acting
on some emphatic hints received, are
converting their establishments into
creamers. AS yet, no separator agents
have objected to this movement.
Scarcely a week ago my newest
neighbor bought fine team, of which
he was very proud. Last Sunday
one of the horses came stumbling in
from the pasture so badly cut by
barb wires that it bled to death in
few minutes. And still people will
not put up woven-wire fences for
their horses.
1t seems that agents have never
been thicker than this summer.
Now, while some of the gentry may
be all right, l 'Hect to have some
oily-tongued fellc .come out to the
field where | am w.fking and try to
argue lightning rods or pain killer
when | am concerned about getting
some important work done in a hurry.
One of the joys of life is trying to
build solid concrete silo when the
nearest gravel bed is a dozen miles
away and good crushed stone cannot
be had. It's nice little job to sand
wich in between our other work, but
we are doing it. No more short feed
Tor our cattle if we can help it; last
taught us lesson.
We have decided on new use for
our grain shed. AS soon as we have
:hrashed we expect to put a cement
'loor into it and fit up the whole shed
IS corn curing house. Several hum
1red bushels of So corn can easily be
'tringed to the rafters, dried quickly
~ means of a cheap heater, and sold
1t good price. That is better than
citing expensive buildings lie idle H
months in the year.
This spring couple of people
we're inclined to laugh at the owner
If fine corn bottom who went over
lis land again and again with the har-
'ow before planting time, making the
entire ten acres as fine as a garden.
But this fall this same man has the
pest piece of corn in the entire neigh
)orhood. Another strikeout for good
illage.
Soon willthe monographs be grind
ng out campaign speeches again. |
move that all the candidates do their
campaigning by making photograph
'ecords, then, when the "deer pee
,ul' get sick of the business they can
'asily "break the record" This is
'eform worthy working for.
1t looks now like we might have
'lentitude of good fall pasture. Per- ,
laps the dairyman will have chance
o make back a little he has lost in
he last few months. He will if he {
las enough good cows to come in