The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-08-22
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman

hood, but if the weather was run by
a majority vote of the people that
would be the cause of more trouble
than the school. 1t is good thing,
after all, that man cannot run the
weather.
'Toot" for the institute!
They say a person should not kill
out bumblebees when they are found
in the meadow; that they aid in the
fertilization of the seed crop Of Glow
er, but must confess that whenever
NOW into good hot nest of bees l
forget all about the clover seed crop.
Graded watermelons bring the top
market prices.
So far this is proving another
''dust mulch" year. The man who
put good dust mulch over his corn
field when laying it by still has the
moisture for his corn to feed upon.
In dairying, it is not a question of
having to feed on pasture at this
season of the year, but a question of
its paying to do so. When it pays to
help out the pasture with extra feed,
that is exactly what anyone should
do, regardless of whether the pasture
is short enough to make it seem nec-
essary or not.
Drop apples fed to the hogs will
save valuable grain rations.
The old fashioned ruta baga is al
most extinct, at least so far as my OBJ
servation goes. l have always re-
garded the ruta-baga as the best tur-
nip that grows, especially for winter
and spring use, but for some reason
have been unable to grow them sue
cessfully for a number of years.
Years ago they grew anywhere, at
almost any season Of the year warm
enough for anything to grow.
Cracked wheat may seem little
expensive, but it is the ideal feed for
pigs.
The gasoline engine gets its power
by explosion, consequently every
thing about the explosion chamber
must be kept tight or there is a
great loss of power. Nothing cuts
down power in gasoline engine or
an auto motor more than compress
sion leak. Often small leak at a
printing cock or around valve cap
gasket is unnoticed, while the oper-
ator blames everything else for the
loss Of power.
Crowd all early potatoes onto the
market, as they decline in price from
this time on.
When l was a boy nothing suited
me better than thrashing time. All
were horsepower outfits then, and
small at that, yet it seems to me that
every man on the job had to work
harder than the men around thrash
ing job have to work today. All grain
was measured in half bushel meas
ures. This was a two-man job in
heavy grain. The old straw carrier
made work at the end harder as well
as dirtier, and that is where us
Youngsters were allowed to work off
our energy.
Mark some OF the largest, most
vigorous potato hills from which to
dig your next seasons seed supply.
Popcorn is the greatest drouth re-
sister of all the corn family, unless it
be Kaffir corn. have seen pop corn
come out in tassell right in the midst
of drouth, seed ears form and the
crop make fully without drop OF
rain in the meantime. Common field
corn would make nothing under sim
liar circumstances, or only small nub-
bins at most, but the pop corn sue
ceeds in making full crop.
Drink plenty of cool, fresh water,
in small quantities, these hot days,
but be cautious how you use ice water
in any form.
Those who hay without a stacker
to do the pitching if much of the hay
is stacked outside, certainly do not
realize the labor that the stacker
saves, to say nothing of the time and
the better keeping qualities of the
stack that is put up with a stacker.
The stacker drops half-ton loads right
in the center of stack. Such stack
is almost as solid when finished as it