The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-02-29
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stock man

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February is stalk-breaking time, OF
it used to be with those who now
own stalk cutters, and it still is with
those who don't. Cutting is certainly
better than breaking, but it is a slow
job compared with breaking and can
only be done when the ground is not
frozen.
System is what counts in cloring
and feeding.
If there is anything that makes us
all complain, it is to have the frost go
out of the ground with rain. Here
is hoping that it will not this spring,
but it likely will.
1t is common sight to see the rent
ers pass on the roads these days, one
going east and the other west, or one
north and the other south. Sometimes
it is an exchange of locations, and
each thinks he is bettered by the
change. This is queer old world,
or is it the queer people who make it
queer?
find that good grain drill will
pay for itself in seed saved in time,
to say nothing of how soon it will re-
pay its cost in putting the grain in
better condition. I find that two
bushels of oats are giving me as good
stands as three bushels used to when
sowing broadcast and narrowing or
disking to cover.
Judge any fowl you contemplate
purchasing by the flock from which
it springs, rather than by individual
traits.
Grain and hay are so high in price
that team work is costing a good bit
Of money. Transfers can no longer
afford to work at the wages charged
even two years ago. | was talking
with a teamster recently who said
that the 81 day he could get now
left him less than So. so did five years
ago. Said he was paying sixty-five
cents for corn and $40 to $12 for hay.
If your corn was ridged when laid
by last summer-and the level culture
fellows say it should not be-and you
wish to work the ridges down level
with a disk harrow, try taking the
two outside disks off the disk that has
seven disks in a section, and straddle
each row. | find that this works
better than to double-disk the ground,
tapping half, and the draft is much
lighter. If the disk has only six to
section it may be necessary to take
off only one disk from each.
Now is good time to scour up cul-
tivator shovels and pillow shares.
A neighbor of mine bought a new
tanning mill and seed grader, and he
keeps it in room of his granary
where the door is so small the ma
chine had to be taken apart when put
in. He has since found this is quite
an advantage, since it prevents ac-
commodating neighbors who want to
borrow it and take it to their grain
instead of bringing their grain to the
mill. He says anyone is welcome to
use the mill where it is, but none can
rack it to pieces hauling it from place
to place.
The hedge fence that shades the
road should be cut down-no guess
ing about this--and it should not re-
quire the operation OF the law to COM
pei the owner to see that it is down.
A hedge south of the road not only
shades the grade, making it dry slow
in the winter, but it keeps the breeze
off in the summer making travelling
exceedingly warm on horses. There
IS no excuse for tall hedge just
south of public highway. +.
Glover, alfalfa or grass seed bought
1t the lowest price may turn out to be
he most expensive in the end 1t all
depends upon the seed, and not the
price, as to which grade is the cheap
,r.
| haven't any particular kick to
make against the modern school, but
t does seem to me that some of the
earning the youth of today is getting
ends to lead them away from work ,
instead of how to do the work better }
md to more advantage than daddy" ,
lid. There are too many young fell
ows just out of college who are look