The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-06-27
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stoekman

son will be crowded into a few weeks
this year, and that it will be necessar,
to keep on the move in order to keel
up.
A field of alfalfa on the farm ha
its drawback, which is the work
makes at the busiest season of tn,
year. l long ago learned that the mar
with few acres of alfalfa does no
need as much corn land to handle.
Where the oats are too short tt
reap with the binder, we arrange Il
NOW them early, while they are ir
the milk" They will then not only
cut easier, handle conveniently, and
make an excellent feed, but one thus
is enabled to recrop the field to some
sort of roughage, millet being our
favorite. The oats hay furnishes both
grain and roughage, which will make
it unnecessary to feed grain in con-
junction with it.
The merchant is known by the quail
ity of goods he keeps. Ought not a
farmer be known by the quality of
work he does and the quality of live
stock he has around him? This, of
course, is speaking of the mans bust
ness and now he should be Judged in
that business. My business is farm
ing and like to know that am keep
ing up with the neighbors who are in
the same business.
Saw a carload of silos being unload
ed in town, the other day. This looks
trifle like rushing the season, but
the men said they wanted the material
on the farm, then when spare time
comes the job of erecting may be look
ed after. With the slaves stored in a
dry place, they are as we'll off on the
farm as in the factory, and the mater
ial is right on the ground when time
can be spared to use it.
All fast-running machinery, such as
a gasoline engine of the stationary
type or the cream separator, should
have a solid base and be fastened
solidly to that base. A concrete
square built from solid ground up is
the best foundation, and bolts should
be imbedded in the concrete when the
mortar is yet green, as a means of
fastening the machine solidly to the
base. An engine or a separator will
be longer lived and perform better on
such foundation, then as if settling
on common floor, however solid it
may seem to be.
At this time Of the year a farmer
may lose great deal by not being
able to do work on time. Alfalfa, for
instance, ought to be cut when at just
such stage to make the best hay,
but it may also happen that there is
corn which needs cnltivating very
badly at that time, too. At these
times, the town folks who show so
much concern apout helping the farm
err, that the country may continue
should come out and lend
a hand.
We all know of folks who live very
well, but we cannot see how they are
able to do so, judging by the work
they do. Towns all have class of
loafers, some of them able-bodied
young men, but they will not work,
yet they manage to subsist in some
way. In some cases too kind parent
furnishes the living for young man
who should be earning the living with
his own hands, and in other cases as
is commonly suspected, the chickens
that are stolen and others petty thiev- !
ng that is done, probable enables a ,
certain class to live and loaf in idle j.,
less.
Weeds grow, whether the crops do
" not. Perhaps it is a goods thing {
hat crops never grow as thrifty as
he weeds, for if they did it would a
lot be long until the market of the s
world would be overloaded and the r
,rice received on the farm would be V
10 insignificant as to hardly justify a
lauling to market. 1t is we'll, too, G
hat we cannot always have the I
weather. just as we might wish it to
,e.
It is all very true to say that the
Filling of all weeds when small, ,
means there'll be no big ones to kill, r
'ut there are times when this is easier 9
aid than done. When one rain fol- \
ows another. all a man can do is to
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