The Butler weekly times., 1912-11-28
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stock man

FARMER ana StOCRmAn.
1t is ''after election" now. Those
who have been waiting until this i'm
portant political event is over before
going ahead with some business
transactions, are now free to go
ahead with it. never have seen a
presidential year when business paid
so little attention to politics, however
as this year. Now for continued
prosperity-if we only have the
crops.
A tile spade is handy to have about
the farm, whether any tiling is done
or not. I would rather have a tile
spade for use in any place where the
common spade has been used for
years than any other instrument
made for the purpose of digging.
Perhaps all do not realize it, but
this country is shorter on clover
acreage than ever before. Clover
seed is high, but l am going to in
dulge in the usual amount of it to
sow next spring. Nothing fits in the
corn farmers rotation as we'll as
clover.
1t is all right to borrow money
when it absolutely assured that it will
prove good business to do so, but l
have always thought it a mistake to
mortgage the home just for the sake
of getting money to use in making an
investment. The investment may
not "prove OUT and the home is left
mortgaged. When once the "home
farm has been freed from mortgage
l believe in keeping it so at all haz-
ards, except dire necessity.
This year did not cut up my poor
est corn, as is the usual custom on
this farm, because l felt that the land
on which it grew had been sheared
of all growth too often. There may
be no great amount of fertility in a
growth Of cornstalks, but it is fact
that some soil is benefited by the
humus contained therein, if fertility
is not there in any considerable
amount.
The latest attempt at Harvesting
the automobile for farm work is a
truck arrangement that can be swung
up beneath the rear axle and so de-
signed that it may be connected with
the driving mechanism, to obtain
power for pulling plows, harrows
or other farm machinery. 1t is so
geared, so it is claimed, that an auto
may run on high gear without great
labor and pull gang of four plows
at the speed of two to three miles an
hour. An auxiliary cooling device
keeps the engine always cool.
Corn husking is generally the last
hurry-up job of the season for the
corn-belt farmer and we are all glad
when thellast ear is in the crib.
For travelling: over heavy roads,
every make of auto now
on the market would be more SER
viceable with better cooling facilities.
With chains on all four wheels, the
auto can be sent through almost any
kind of mud, but the engine, as now
cooled, soon heats up, consequently
the use of the auto is restricted when
the roads are very muddy. 1t seems
to me that secondary cooling sys-
tenn, for use at such time, would be
a great improvement.
1t sometimes happens that in the
hurry of the' husking season the
chores are neglected. Quite often
he loss from.this neglect would pay
he wages of an extra hand in the
Iield.
When l was a boy the standard ar
icle of use during the husking sea-
ION was pine tar. The corn husker
Usually smelled.. of tar for three
Now, other things are used
many patented lotions vase
inc, etc. I.'have a;snotion anv of
hem is better than the old pine tar
We used to use, which had a tenden-
y to make the hands crack in a few
lays. II
II the voters would take as much {
interest in what office holders are
loing after election as they did in