The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-05-09
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stock man.

All good bolts and nuts should be
removed from old machinery that is
to be disposed of as scrap iron. 1t
often happens that single bolt or nut
is worth more to busy farmer than
the whole amount received from the
sale of an old binder.
We quite often hear some farmers
say that when gas tractor is made
that will successfully handle all farm
machinery they will sell their horses
and buy one. Their theory is sound,
but who are they going to sell their
horses to when gas tractors are made
as perfect as that.
1t is pleasure to sit by and watch
the work horses pick at the first green
grass that appears in the spring. No
doubt it tastes about the same to them
as the first garden sass" does to the
human being.
Our friends, the song birds, are
with us again for another long season
and the man who would kill or injure
single one Intentionally is but little
better than a brute. What could be
more desolate than summer without
song birds?
The diameter of the silo should be
regulated according to the size of the
herd, as to the material to be used in
its construction much will depend on
where man lives and the size of his
of his bank account. The hollow
brick silo having two air spaces is,
perhaps, the best that can be built,
but the first cost is greater than most
of the others.
1t is not wise farmer who snakes
a disk over a muddy field just be-
cause he has a disk that will not clog
and horses that are able to pull it.
The work done by the horses is hard
enough, but the work done to the
field is worse than the worthless.
A very good seed bed can be made
in the stalk field by going over it
twice with sharp disk. The second
disking is the one that does the finest
work, the first one merely breaks
down the stalks and scratches the
earth.
Hen manure is an excellent fertil-
izer, but it is not the thing for the
potato ground. Well-rotted COW ma
nure is better and does the best serv-
| ice if applied after the potatoes are
planted. If it starts the weeds, sc
much the better. Kill the weeds by
frequent cultivation.
have been turning so many fur
rows in the field this week that | can
hardly find the time to turn any here.
The "spring rush. certainly is here.
Flax used to be more extensively
grown than it is now. The linseed
mills have been conducting campaigns
to get more farmers to try flax grow
ing, since they are finding their raw
material shorter every year. Flax is
now high in price, and all flax prod
ucts are consequently high according
ly.
Colts and pigs seem to be having a
hard time of it this spring. Almost
everyone reports poor luck, even
since the weather became rather
more decent. An epidemic of pink
eye is cutting the colt crop short over
wide scope Of the country.
Most stallion owners guarantee foal
to stand and suck. If the foal does
not no fee is charged. When mare
. is known to be in foal, it would seem
as if the responsibility of the sire
owner should end, but custom seems
to have this ruling that the colt shall
stand and suck, so the size of the the
of the fee is fixed accordingly. There
is no question but what smaller fee
would return the same amount OF
money if the guarantee ended when
the mare was known to be in foal.
There are two things every farmer
; should be sure of: That his seed
corn will grow reasonably we'll and
that his planter is planting it accurate
ly. 1t is not enough to be right only
in one of these things, for good seed
and poor planter and poor seed will
not produce satisfactory results.
! The man who has good blue grass
or alfalfa pasture for his hogs is now