The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-11-14
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and StockmAn.

most available if fed before it cools
Do no more cementing or concret
work, from now on-too much dan
ger Of freezing or cracking before
"sets we'll.
Leaving a halter on the horses a
all times and having snap attaches
to the rope or strap, makes it YER.
convenient in turning out and catch
ing the animals.
Secure an abundance of good clear
straw now, for bedding, thus insur
ing the comfort of all animals during
the winter months and furnishing thu
material that will be turned into &
most valuable fertilizer for the fields
later on.
Keen tools save time, labor and dc
most efficient work.
Coal oil is a quick and easy fire
starter but be very careful that il
does not prove a funeral starter. Use
every precaution by not pouring it
directly on the fire, and make sure it
is not the gasoline can you are using
when starting the fire.
Have the wife cut up few strips
of solid pumpkin, dry them in the
sun or in the oven, stringing them
on cords and hanging them away for
winter use. Cut up in small pieces,
soaked in water and thoroughly cook
ed, they are fine for pumpkin pies in
midwinter.
Study this new parcels post law
closely, and you will find it very
much simpler and more easily under
stood than was at first thought by
many. You thus will not only I'M
derstand its practicabiltty, especially |
for the farmer, but will save your
postmaster the trouble of explaining
it all to you.
Giving the boys or girls pig, calf
or few nice chickens; then using
the money to buy supplies for the
whole family after they bring them
10 a marketable age, is a plan by
which you will give them a most dis
view of farm life early in
heir career, and start them on their
road from the farm to the city.
Hustle patch or two of corn out
1t once, turn the stock into the stalk
field, and see how much more good
hey get out of it by pasturing it be-
lore the juicy blades all dry up and
blown away by the wind, the husks
get so dry, and the stalks so woody
and tasteless by their rich juices
evaporating, as they do where they
ire pastured later on.
The garden truck, which most
armers allow to waste at this season
If the year, can be turned into big
profits by feeding them to the hogs,
,attle and poultry. The dairy cows,
will greatly relish and
10 we'll on the odd turnips, beets and
abbage, but these should be chopped
Up in pieces that will admit of ample
hewing and swallowing without
LANCER of choking. These articles
hoped up fine and cooked into the
iran and chop mash for the poultry ,
will be the means of dropping few
xtra eggs into the egg basket every
lay.
Now is the time to make many
that will help wonder
ully in curtailing the family store
ill this winter, when there is little
coming in with which to pay. An
lccount at the store soon runs up till
almost takes your breath away
when you go to pay it, and in avoid
ng this, you can take an encourage
ng start in the spring by beginning
he year 'even with the world"
Store all the fruit and garden pro-
lucts you can-apples, turnips, beets
:abbage, pickles, kraut-secure some
rood old sorghum, corn for corn
,read, have your wheat ground for
lour. All this less buying at the
tore will mean more prosperity and
,etter health among the whole house.
lold.
This evening neighbor went by
ny place with new spreader, and
he sight of it made me sorry l have
spreader that is much too good to |
brow aside. His new spreader