The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-12-26
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stocknan.


one-half of the herd the price charged
by some for first-class, purc-bret
animal to head your herd need no
seem so high, after all; indeed,
would seem low, profits considered
No stronger proof of the horse
universal popularity and usefulncs.
has come to light in the past few
years than the damage and incon
venience caused by the deadly, mys
ferrous disease taking away so many
of these noble animals in Kansas anc
Nebraska.
Don't keep the children hustling
around doing chores night and morn.
ing till they have no time at all for
reviewing their lessons for school. A
little quiet study at home helps them
out wonderfully, encouraging them in
their efforts to secure the best educa-
ton possible.
Overlooking and lack of exercise
are the two chiefcauses for "thumps'
among pigs.
Too many surplus ROSTERS and
cockerels in the poultry yard mean
that they will worry the layers till
they will not lay well, and consume
valuable feed that should go toward
keeping more profitable birds, while
the price paid for such fowls gradual
ly falls off every week from now on,
as they reach the stag stage.
If the hogs sleep in dusty quarters
a bad form of cough is soon contract
ed among them, its damage on the
herd depending on the length of time
they are allowed to sleep in such a
place.
If the schoolboy cannot figure up
how many tons of hay there are in a
stack; how many bushels of corn a
wagon bed or a corncrib will hold;
what load of hogs will bring, etc,
us time you were knowing what his
teacher at school is trying to cram
into the youngsters head A little
theorizing sgood, IMPRACTICAL knowl-
edge is better.
Riding on manure spreader has
assisted many a man to where he
could ride in an automobile.
Diversified farming is all right, but i
as the blacksmith who gets too many
irons in the fire is sure to take the S
temper out Of most OF them, Just SO /
the farmer who tries TO carry too
many branches of agriculture-he is L
almost sure to butcher most of them +
up and achieve very little success at h
any one of them. 1t has come to y
point when one must specialize.
Let the manure freeze after being "
hauled to the field; not around the a
barn. g
Don't shell the seed corn yet, but ~ ~
allow it to dry out thoroughly before - -,
removing it from the cob and storing r,
t. If it is put away while there is "
my moisture in it, that is almost sure r,
o freeze later on, causing weaken
ng of the terminating qualities, and -
'ften running it entirely. Or, where "
ne seed is damp, and put away where -
will not freeze, mold is apt to result -.
Changing the rations of any animal ,h
hould be done very gradually. hi
Now is good time to examine the ha
eed corn and notice the difference il
l the ''feel' and the ring" of the N
orn that was picked early and thor no
ughly dried and what was picked at
usking time. les
Newspapers are telling us of the in cal
ention of an ice-making machine that sta
i'll make ice in the hottest weather nu
an expense so small that tits hardly
orth mentioning. Pipe dreams some shs
mes come true, but the farmer who
IS an ice house will be on the safe del
de if he lays in supply in the good of
d-fashioned way. abb
A year ago there were very few of est
who expected to see corn selling I'll
low as thirty cents per bushel Tor
ain, but that unexpected thing has Col
opened. If it should happen that X.
e must haul three-cent hogs to mar
t again we would no doubt feel like
hirty cents" ourselves. {
The round barn with Silo in the nuf
inter- is being talked about a great DAY