The Butler weekly times., 1911-03-30

inviting, but no assortment Is quit
complete without two or three auto
mobiles. These devil wagons Of
few years ago have made good i
nearly all localities. II is q notabl
fact that those most bitterly Oppose
to their introduction are willing I
call them automobiles now and som
are owners.
The season for working the road
is with us and it would almost seen
that the proper place for holding |
good roads convention is right out Of
a piece Of country road that need
''fixin'." Such a convention, IL prop
erly conducted, would bring result,
to which those who attended nigh
point with pride" for some time K
come.
Ihave never had a case Of Joint III
among my colts and am not Dragging
about the fact, either. When the little
fellows are dropped in the stable l al.
ways make it a point to have fresh
bedding in every night, and when the
stall is cleaned out in the daytime it is
thoroughly disinfected with coal-tar
dip. On the other hand, when the
weather is warm and the mares are in
the pasture, l have no objection to
having the little fellows come into the
world right on the fresh grass. Dead
ly germs cannot live in the sunshine
and always figure that the germ
that causes joint i'll can only find
lodgment in shady places.
l want to make suggestion to
those who feed ensilage and find that
their stables have a strong silage
smell all the time. This is a pretty
good indication that the stable is not
well ventilated and l would therefore
suggest that more windows be cut or
that some kind of scientific ventila-
tion be put in. Of course, there will
be slight odor of silage even in the
best ventilated barns, but when it
gets strong and pungent that indicates
that conditions are not very favorable
and under those circumstances there
IS considerable danger of having milk
contaminated through the absorption
If barn odors.
The other day l heard of a man
Who grew $500 bushels of oats on
acres which, of course, is
IN even 100 bushels to the acre. Up
m inquiry l learned that this man had
lis seed bed in garden condition. The
anne man had an average of more
han eighty bushels of corn on 100
cres. This record was made by a
nan who had previously had very lit
le experiencein in corn-belt agriculture,
is knowledge having been acquired
there soil cultivation is reduced to a
cience--in Denmark. am not sure
ut what the native Americans could
| many instances learn valuable les.
ons from those VINO come to us from
broad.
Those who have kept over a supply
hay expecting to get exorbitant
rices for it this spring are liable to
2 disappointed. The open winter
IS enabled farmers to take through
leir live stock on minimum supply
roughage, and as a result a little
ay has gone long ways. Weknow
le instance where a man was Of
red $14 ton for hay in the stack
st fall and he refused it. II is
,ubtful if he could get more than So
: $40 a ton for it at present.
If you see pretty bird, the size of
quail, with blue spot on its breast
, not shoot it, says an Iowa news
lper. It is a pheasant from Hungary.
are being liberated
the hope that they will repopulate
e state with game birds. They
ould be treated as sacred birds
It'll they get to be numerous enough
be hunted. Let every good man
ID every good boy respect the
in the bird world who have
en brought to this state.