The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-01-18
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stosk man.

titled to good shelter.
know u young man who starteC
farming for himself five years ago
He has succeeded and last year pur'
chased an auto. For this act he has
been criticized numerically by his
father, and yet well remember thai
it caused a much greater sacrifice fol
this man to buy Il buggy thirty-five
years ago. His ncighbors predicted
bankruptcy without fail. You see
therefore, that it all depends.
The first top buggy that came into
our locality was regarded as VERT
able death trap and the man who
owned it was called a Gloon" not only
behind his back, but also to his face.
Horses are cheaper, at least for the
time being. Many think all the de-
cline will be rcgained by spring,
when good horses will be as high as
the highest. Market prophecies are
as uncertain as weather prophecies,
and no wise man will make either or
believe in either, but this time we
have the presidential election to take
into consideration, and there's no
telling what will happen in a prcsi-
dental year.
The horse now idle that does con-
siderable work during the summer
needs daily exercise to keep his di-
gestion, assimilation and circulation
in proper working order
While making your New Year rcso-
!utions, what have you resolved to do
about parcels post? Too many farm
crs who need this never have resolved
anything about it--that's always been
the great drawback to its adoption.
Unless the farmers speak up in writ
ing to their congressman and tell them
they want parcels post, there's little
possibility of its ever being realized,
as the interests who do not want it
are constantly bringing up argument
against it. Write a letter to your
congressman, urging him to support
parcels post not tomorrow or next
week, but right now.
Don't get ovcr-ambitious and make
too many New Year resolutions. One
good one, conscicntiouSly kept, is
worth dozen that are broken during
the first week of the year.
If you speak to the horse, then yell
ut him again before he has time to
obey the first command, you may just
expect him to become confused till
he acts almost rs crazy rs his master
does.
Adding little grain to the rough
age ration of even the stock herds,
not only saves roughage, but by fur
nishins greater variety of feed, bet
ter digestion will be promoted and
more nourishment obtained thanfrom
a like amount OF Il single article Of
feed.
If you would have the bank account
balance in your favor, be sure to feed
the dairy COWS 4 balanced ration.
The snow that falls this winter on
those open-top corn cribs will turn to
water and soak down into the corn,
and this, together with the rain that
falls in the spring, will cause much
loss of corn down toward the bottom
Of the crib. A little old hay or straw,
or some cheap roofing. will prove a
big money-savcr.
There have been plenty of good
road meetings held this fall, but the
roads have been so bad the attendance
has been small.
Another thing the farmers ought to
be united in, is an effort to secure
more appropriations for good roads.
The farming element Of our country
has been sitting idly by while the in
habitants of cities and the territory
adjoining lakes and streams have beer
busy urging congressional appropria'
ton for improving those water ways
There is no earthly reason why some
of these millions of dollars that are
being spent annually on lake, rivel
and harbor improvements should no
be diverted to the building and main
tenance Of our rural highways.
With Christmas passed and no ont
kind enough to make you a present
why not make yourself one by buyini
a good tanning MILL it you hav'
nothing Of the kind? 1t will be tn
best investment you ever made, a
well as the best present you ever got
This is good time to get on clos
terms with those colts.