The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-03-27
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and StockmAn.

have just received a bulletin con-
corning farmers institutes for the
year 1911, issued by the United States
/ Department of Agriculture. Some
times the department does things up
with rush.
Leaky feed troughs run the feed
BILL up.
No one is counting out the bundles
of rough feed to their stock as they
did last spring. There is plenty
and some to spare. Coarse fodder
that will not keep we'll in the stack
makes fine filling for bitches.
A few flower beds and a lawn do
wonders towards making the farm
home attractive. 1t adds nothing to
the producing power of the farm, of
course, but it does add much to the
actual value of the farm, in case the
owner should happen to place it up
on the market.
Sharpen up your pen knife, and
thus disprove the assertion that a
farmer never has sharp knife.
take no stock in all the talk about
such and such not being worth what
it costs because it adds nothing to the
producing power of the farm. The
man who will not progress because
such progress twill not make the
farm produce any more" is consider
|.able of a stand-pat and stick-in-the-
mud. have even heard men argue
against better roads, because they
could not see that better roads would
add to the stuff produced on their
farm, just as if hogs, cattle, grain and
the almighty dollar was everything.
| have been living twice as far
from town the past three weeks, be-
cause the roads have been next to
impossible with mud. A man who
can be satisfied with mud roads is
certainly a stand pat of the most pro-
nounced type.
Will you arm the kicky horse with
another ugly and dangerous weapon
by putting shoes on him?
The post office department is going
to add c. o. d. feature to the par
eel post business after July LIST. Lit
tie by little, and in the sweet bye and
bye we may have real parcel post
system such as other countries have
enjoyed for years.
Why is it that we always complain
ing OF a thing after it is done and
can't be helped?
Where man has the horsepower
l think he is perfectly wise to hook
harrow cart on behind his harrow,
and ride on it. At any rate, it doesn't
pay to use a small harrow where
there are horses to pull large one.
If man trudges along behind, he
feels better about it when cutting a
wide swath.
Employ the balanced ration and it !
will balance your bank account in
your favor.
Inever did believe in throwing ex-
pensive grass seed away by using
an unsual amount of it to the acre.
If the seed is good and the seed bed
is likewise, less instead of more than
the usual seeding will produce a
stand. If it does not, twice more
seed would not be apt to, as season
or seed bed would be at fault, and
more seed cannot overcome these.
Dig out that seed corn grader and
termination box.
With the mud six to ten inches
deep where they are, | saw herd of
cows turned out in a stalk field. The
cows were getting plenty of exercise
all right, and not much feed, while
the land was getting tramping it
will scarcely get over this season.
Under no circumstances do believe
in late spring pasturing of stalk fields.
Cattle tramp land enough when it is
dry, say nothing of when it is wet.
There will be great deal of corn
in the shock, unhusked, when the
land will be wanted for spring crops.
The winter has been ideal for shred
ding or threshing shocked corn, but
far from it to husk by hand, as the
fodder has been too dry until we'll on
towards the first of March. 1t is con-
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