The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-01-11
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stosk man.

HopcS VI tuc past, l llHu tHc Alfalfa
meal mill. AT one time nothing was
so good as alfalfa meal, but feeders
soon tired of paying $50 a ton for
ground hay, and now the business is
rather flat.
The good road enthusiasts tell us
that one way of moving nearer town
is to build good roads. l admit that
a good road makes this distance seem
shorter, but how to build road at
moderate cost, that is good after a
three-inch rain, is problem we are
going to be long time solving. Good
corn soil has a way of becoming
mighty sticky when wet.
In the winter we put up ice for
summer use, and in the summer we
put green corn in the silo for winter
use. To this extent man is capable
of transforming the seasons
Corn is light in weight this year.
AT sale the other day, the owner
insisted that his corn sell by measure.
1t brought four cents under what a
bidder offered and let the scales do
the measuring.
| overheard a neighbor lady say
that she has raised great many fur
keys in the past ten years, but never
in this length of time has she felt that
the family could afford to have one to
eat. Just another proof that Mr..
Dooley hit it about right when he said,
in answer to Mr.. Hennessy's ques-
ton about going to the country where
all good things come from. "No,
begorra, I'll stay in the city where all
the good things go to-" The pro-
ducer of the good things should have
some Of them for his own family.
Trying to make it right with your
self for turning cattle into muddy
field, by saying that freezing will
remedy the tramping, does not help
matters when blowing the field and
getting it ready for planting in the
spring. | have been fooled this way
so many times that | can now see the
error of it all, and keep my cattle off
muddy fields.
Turning the milk cows out to rustic
in the stalk fields on stormy winter
days may be one way of keeping
cows, but it is not the way dairymen
do who expect to milk the cows to
keep the family
The sliding barn door seems to have
had its day, as general rule it does
not fit snug enough and gives more
or less trouble by jumping the
track" A door hung on hinges gives
good satisfaction provided it is hung
in such a manner as to stay hung.
All doors on outbuildings should be
provided with latches so they can be
opened from both sides. Nothing
disgusts a busy man more than to
come to door and find that he must
60 around a building in order to open
it.
1t is not waste of money to buy one
of the poultry fountains and heaters
that are advertised by the progressive
dealers. 1t is not proper
form to treat the hens to ice water in
the winter time, especially when eggs
are thirty cents per dozen.
Why is it that the "hoss doctor"
doesn't need to know beans in order
10 gain the confidence of a great
many horse owners? have known
Of men whose judgment would not
be taken under any circumstances on
else, but good horses will be
placed under their care when ailing.
A man ought to know something in
order to doctor horse, the same as
he doctor of the human family should
md the old idea that some half-baked
hump is good enough to doctor a
lorse is all wrong.
When rural mail routes were being ,
established nearly all local merchants
we're opposed to them, and their final,
md what seemed to them their best
argument was that our Uncle Sam
would be swamped in postal deficit.
Who is opposed to them now? At ,
present there is some talk of es-
ahliShino a narcels most in This cOln-