The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-04-25
FARM BURROWS,
Farmer and Stockman.


Farmer and stockman.
The latest is for local telephone
companies to act as free employment
bureaus. When farmer wants I
hand he tells central" while thu
man who wants a job likewise tells
central. This is means of quick
communication, and is certainly 8
capital idea.
A little tile, judiciously laid, can dc
a great deal of good in time like
this, when every seep seeps and
every farmer waits patiently Tor i'm.
patiently for the seep to stop seeping.
Dragged roads any yet? Great time
for such work.
With corn from sixty to seventy
five cents a bushel and hay around
SIS a ton, it takes no great amount OF
persuasion from the agent to sell a
man who does considerable travelling
on the road in an auto. From the
standpoint of maintenance it is easy
enough to see that the light or me-
dunn weight car can reel off miles
cheaper than a driving team. It does
cost like sixty to keep team on rs
cent corn.
The collar with a firm, smooth face
is preferable to the soft, heating pad
being worked next to the horses skin.
The practice of working out" the
poll tax is being more and more dis
carded each year. The tax is COL
lected in cash and used with the
regular road tax. l am sure this is
move in the right direction. have
seen many a time when l would
rather have paid the cash than to have
stopped my own work, but the over
seer warned me out" and, of course
| went.
Cattle will be cattle and hogs will
be hogs for the next few years, or
until the present shortage has been
made good by the natural increase of
a decreased foundation stock to start
with.
A good spray pump is handy thing
to have on farm, orchard or no or
chard. 1t finds greater use on this
farm in the hen house than in the or
chard. A strong kerosene emulsion,
to which has been added lime enough
so it colors white, makes as good a
spray for the chicken quarters as
ever have tried. Spray it
everywhere with a good pump and +;
you'll have few mites. Il
Mulch now for fruit growth and to
keep down the weeds.
Make sure that plenty of air and
are admitted to the pigs
quarters.
A hog or COW is a most discon-
ented animal in cloudy, rainy wealth
". It is at such a time that the
ences are tested. l have been re- Il
pairing so much fence in the past four
lays that l am now as lame as
race horse, preparing
or the test that is to come of the
pasture fences. c
Have the seed corn all shelled,
traded and hand picked, ready for d
planting time.
Gather eggs for Matching as soon as ~
possible after being laid during damp y
odd days. :.
Some corn growers prefer a corn a
With large cob. They say it takes :,
lot of corn to 60 around a large cob, a.
'esides the large cob makes good a,
irewood. A bin of corn cobs comes 4
n handy at certain seasons of the ~
ear, but on this farm we no longer K
ook to such fuel for summer use. r
'oal oil, in a modern oil stove, is a y
heaper and more satisfactory fuel.
Many man remembers, with the CT
lemory of many a backache, the N
licking up Of stones in his fathers S,
ED, when boy, just to get them
ut of the way. They were dumped ia
IF the field in various out-of-the-way
laces. Now there is a use for small
ock, in concrete work of all kinds.
[any boy picked up enough small
ock and cobble stones to build a
oxen silos.
Prune in the orchard for wood