The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-03-14
FARM BURROWS.


Farmer and Stockman.
A lamb dropped in cold, damp
quarters or on the ground means {
weakened or dead animal.
The main objection tor storing corr
fodder in the barn is that it brings a
multitude of mice and rats as winter
boarders, but those who have the
room can overlook that. This digging
corn shocks out of the snow every
day in addition to the other chores
is what makes some people say that
the farmers life is just one blamed
thing after another.
| The farmer who buys his breeding
stock early pays good, stiff price,
but he secures the select Of the herd
Why not plan to keepa few swarms
of bees? For the amount of labor
and expense involved they will return
more clear profits than any other
branch of agriculture.
Take special care of the earliest
calves. They are the ones that will
bring you the big price this fall, or
develop into fine specimens for the
improvement of your stock and dairy
herds.
Oats are unequaled for calves.
Unless the stalks on last years
cornfield are taller and of larger size
than ordinary, it will not be necessary
to run the stalk cutter over the
ground, as the job can be done much
carrier and quicker by hitching horse
to each end of twenty-five or thirty
foot pole the size of a stove pipe, and
dragging it down the rows. If this is
done while the ground is still frozen,
every stalk will be broken off at the
surface, leaving the ground in prime
shape for stirring.
In digging your wealth from the
soil remember that it should be done
in manner that it should be done in
a manner that will leave the land
fertile enough for your posterity to
produce something on which to SUBJ
sist after you are gone.
One Of these days, when the horses
come in sweating slightly under the
collar, thus softening and loosening
the. dirt and CRIME that so often cause
sore shoulders, take your mittens, a
corn cob or the regular horse brush
and clean the face Of the collar off
well.
How many times did you visit the
school this term? Didn't have time?
Are you farming for the sake af the
few dollars and cents you'll get out
of it, or are you going to see that the
boys and girls are trained up and
educated in a manner that will desig-
nate you as successful farmer in the
highest sense?
The coming Of spring means the
coming of the agent. About every
hing is now sold by the travelling
gent from a thrashing machine to a
,ottler perfume.
Did you ever stop to think how
much ground good ear of seed corn
will plant? 1t is just that much
,round that is not planted when the
ar is poor seed.
When | read an article in which
eed corn is referred to as corn
eed" l know where to place the writ
r Of it. He is some poor fellow
'rinding out stuff in a city office,
nd probably never spent more than
week, all told, on a farm in his life.
here are certain expressions that
own farmers use which give them
way.
One rainy day in early spring a
eighbor of mine gathered all his
oys around the kitchen table, and
rom pile of shelled seed corn in the
enter they sorted the odd-shaped s
nd inferior grains from those that
yere perfect. That was before the I
ay of corn graders, and while it t
1rned out to be quite job, my I
eighbor always contended that it |
aid. He uses grader now. !
Selling nearly all the hay and grain l
aised on the farm is sure and not S
UGH a slow method of selling the G
lrm. Sometimes a man may not r
link he is doing so, but he certainly il
/. The downfall of farm begins
hen the owner of it makes up his .
lind there is more money in selling