The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-02-01
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stock man.

ference required the services Of on
hundred policemen to preserve order
according to. daily newspaper dis
| patches. am sure that is worse thar
can be said of farmers institut,
that is discussing good roads,"
II 1t is now time to look up the seed
corn grader and termination box.
| The man who wanted to see some
real winter weather this winter, and
has stoutly maintained all along that
person doesn't mind below zero cold
after he gets used to it, has had very
little to say lately. Perhaps he hasn't
yet got used to this frigid temperature
and to pulling corn shocks out of the
snow drifts.
Don't arm the kicky horse with
another ugly and most dangerous
weapon by shoeing him.
The mice must have known it was
coming; anyhow, they have congregat-
ed in the fodder shocks in greater
numbers than ever before, and many
string has been cut by them, making
the feed hauler say uncomplimentary
things about mice in general while
loading the loose bundles.
The irregularity in milking during
these short days and long nights
knocks out the dairy profits.
1t seems to me that too many farm
ers are deluding themselves in the be-
lief that they can buy many things
cheaper than they can raise them. l
recently heard one farmer say he
would raise no more potatoes, except
a few for early use in the garden,
claiming that he could buy them
cheaper than he could raise them.
Another farmer mentioned some other
farm product he thought he could buy
cheaper than he could raise, and so
on until about everything produced on
the farm had been mentioned except
straight grain crops and live stock.
Even then one cattle feeder mentioned
that he could buy corn cheaper than
he could raise it.
No two milkmen handle cows alike, ;
and no two milkmen will obtain the ,
same amount Of dairy products at
time. Don'tselect your milk
men until you have tried them.
Although alfalfa is dormant during |
the winter, two years ago l had proof t
that the plant must not be smothered r
while in its dormant state or it will
die. A neighbor had a fine field of c
it, just started the spring before,
which was covered with a sheet of
ice for at least two weeks. In the
spring not one plant in thousand t;
was alive. am sure the alfalfa
under the air tight crust
Of ice.
A dealer advertises that he will
show all who call at his place of h
business on certain hours of a certain h
lay how to shell $50 bushels of corn O
N an hour with a three-horsepower 9
gasolene engine for power. l should a
ike very much to see the job done, O
lnder ordinary conditions e
One year put off thrashing so late II
n the season that the thermometer C
showed zero all day the machine was @
It my place. Another year thrashing H
vas going on at my farm when the y
weather was so warm the work had ~
o be stopped frequently for us all to G
cool off" It is about as bad to =
hrash at one extreme as the other. y y
Butchering day should not be put off
90 long. Snug winter now may mean "
N early spring Il hope SOY, and in ~
hat case it will be we'll for the meat D
o be nicely cured before warm
weather.. remember one year when M
winter stopped right short off. and
here was hardly any intermediate Al
pring weather following it. 1t was Is
ummer many days in March, and all a. a.
,eat put up after the first days of N
'ebruary was lost in cure. This
aught many of us a lesson. A,
If snow in the mountains has any II
hing to do with the rainfall of the Al
ummer following, then look out for d
Gods in May and June, for, in the
lnguage of an old settler, ''there be Ol
now in the mountains now" al
When was a boy in school they
aid more attention to spelling, read Tt