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

Tile outlets should be covered will
poultry netting or something of thu
kind to prevent rabbits, skunks ane
other little pests from getting in ane
wandering around in what is to then
a Mammoth cave at times when there
is no water running.
When there is water running from
the outlet of the tile it makes a nice
place to keep Jug of drinking water,
but the practice of drinking the water
that runs from the tile should be dis.
couraged. Running does not make
water pure.
A manure pile is not pleasing to
the eye when it lies in the yard, but
it can be changed into corn or hay in
a year if it is hauled and spread in the
right places. There is about as much
danger of poisoning" fields with
manure as there is Of poisoning a
harvest hand with food.
Now is good time to resolve that
all the straw on the farm will be
stacked "for keeps" this fall and
make it point to see that the resolu-
ton sticks until after thrashing. If
the horse could talk he would say
that oats straw is not to be sneezed
at if it is clean and bright.
There is not as much strain on the
line posts where woven wire is used
as when only barbed is put on so that
the cattle can reach through and push
the fence over, but the end posts must
be solid or the fence will be very
little better than an excuse.
A stack cover is a handy thing to
have around at other times than just
at stacking, and there are few who
have bought one that have not found
that it has paid for itself many times
over.
Where it is possible to do so the
ground should be plowed where the
stacks are to be built. Where this
is done and little time spent in dig
cling trenches so that the water can be
carried away from the stacks the
bottoms will be found to be as dry as
the middle at thrashing time.
It is not waste of time to take
corn knife and 90 into the corn field
and cut the big weeds that have
escaped the cultivators. 1t is not
weeds so much as the seeds that will
be killed that counts.
The apple crop is missing on many
farms this year, but our peach rails
ing brothers seem to be more lucky,
because canning peaches are on the
market at price within the reach
of all'-who have the price. In
way we share their luck. Home can
ned peaches are not at all bad as
winter Sass"
Grain that has been discolored in
the shock will be improved consider
ably by being allowed to sweat out
or "cure" in the stack.
Bundle oats makes good feed for
horses even though it may seem like
guess work as to the amount each
horse gets, especially where two
horses are fed in one Manager.
1t may do to haul and spread
manure among the shocks, but it is
hardly the thing to do. A day or two
of rest will not hurt any man, and
the one who has his work arranged
so that he feels that he must work
all the time should take day off to
think. Very few farmers have done
bad enough to be sentenced
to hard labor for life.
The great American hen gets lot
of cuss words and miscellaneous
assortment of missiles hurled at her
when she begins to tear the top off
the grain stacks. But it should be
that it is the busy hen
that laws the egg, and little extra
work by the stacker at the top Of
the stack will prevent much damagaf
being done. T
1t will be interesting to note what
effect bumper crop of corn will have
on the price of corn and hogs. We
have been told that cheap corn and
Dogs are things Of the past. Is it
possible that they are also things of
the future?
Now is as good a time as any to
look over the young fruit trees to see
if there are any young shoots that