The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-07-18
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stock man.

The silo makes the best crib O
earth for soft corn. The lateness {
this years crop makes it seem prob
able that more than usual of the lat
corn will be caught immature b
Jack Frost this fall. Such corn ma
be rushed into a silo and the silage
as good as any, in fact, it is likel,
that frost will catch much of the lat
corn when it has just about reache,
the silage stage. The silo is grea
thing to cheat Jack Frost out of doinl
us an injury.
If the new low-down manure
spreaders are as good as they look
they will make manure hauling seem
like little odd job that can be done
while resting up after a siege of real
work. 1t is pretty safe guess that
no "horny-fisted son of toll" is going
to lift a stack of heavy manure a foot
higher than necessary just for the
fun of the thing.
A disc from an old pulverizer
makes a good anchor for holding the
end post of wire fence, provided it
is well weighted down and creased.
A No. 8 wire is needed to connect it
with the post, and if four strands of
this are properly twisted on it will
make an anchor that will hold any
reasonable strain.
1t sometime happens that the brood
SOW will not occupy the place pre-
pared for her, even if we do our very
best to please her. This is when the
individual house that can be moved
and placed over her in the place of
her own choosing comes handy. It
must be remembered that a certain
great man Of olden times also found
it easier to move himself to the noun
tain than to have the mountain moved
to him.
Doctors say that most of us keep
our living ard sleeping rooms too
warm. Without doubt this is true.
n case of summer showers we often
close our windows to keep the rain
'ut, then drop off to sleep and awake
II the morning with the room stuffy
md our heads feeling as if we might
lave been on a bum the night before.
lack of fresh air and an overheated
has gotten in its work.
1t is best to make haste slowly
While blowing corn, especially the
irst time through. If only one hill
o the row is covered up or gouged
'ut it makes one row less crossways :
# the way the blowing is done, and !
does not take a very long row of 7
orn to pay for little extra time. ,
There are times when it would be
honey in mans pocket to have no F
took to fat, as the corn would bring S
lore sold upon the market. know b
lat have lost some money on feed h
'g bunch of shoats this spring. but s.
e must remember the times when S
has been very profitable to use the "
orn on the farm and also remember S;
lat the salvation of our soul lies in n
'eding as much as possible of what
e raise on the farm. II
Those who have them say the pat y,
1t high speed tool grinders with n
'rborundum grinding wheels are the ST
andiest things on the farm, and will 81
larpen anything from a saw to VI
over sickle, as we'll as polishing III
lsted surfaces. l am unfortunate v,
just having boughten new ball b,
caring grindstone, but it might pay tn
e to throw that aside and get the
test -and-best. The enthusiastic =
aise of those who have these tool
inders would lead me to think so, r,
yhow.
Doctoring up an old mower so it
uts like new" usually consists in of
ting in new sickle sections and
ard plates, in lining up the cutter nc
r and fitting new clips and bookings
either end of the pitman. After a 70
,wer has seen four or five years of
I'd usage the cutter bar lags back at
outer end. Nearly all mowers
W have Unable" bars, and to give
st results they should be kept we'll wi
ed up.
The world keeps finding new uses Co
corn and corn pr0ducfS. The la+.