The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-08-07
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stock man.

Farmer and Stockmsn.
It is not as easy to Tweed" out the
poor cows from herd of dairy cows
as it is to pick the rag weeds from the
corn, but with a little study and the
use of the tester and scales it will be
possible to find which ones are the
"corn" of the lot.
It will pay we'll to go through the
cornfield after the, cultivating and
cut down the big weeds that have es-
capped the shovels and to make sure
that no patch of Canada thistles or
the like is getting foothold.
If you must choose one of the three
evils: Pump water by hand, let the
stock go thirsty, or buy small gaso-
line engine, choose the engine. After
few weeks you will have it doing all
the 'crank" work on the farm.
The corn plant has wonderful
growth and this year the growth has
been wonderful even for corn. Six
feet of sturdy growth in sixty days is
something that should make us do
some thinking when we look at the
kernel of corn that we hide in the
ground.
If you are a handy man" make a
step ladder to use when picking the
apple from the trees, if not, do the
next best thing, buy one. There is
no variety of apples that will keepun-
less carefully picked and packed.
Never sell an old machine for junk
before all the bolts, nuts, set screws,
ETC., have been removed. 1t will take
only few of these to be worth more
to you than the amount received for
the whole machine.
1t may be all right to give the little
pigs the run of the farm If it is
fenced pig tight, but if it is not it is
not right to give them the run OF the
world. That is the kind of stuff that
fool lawsuits are made Of.
The farmer who totes case of
eggs with him almost every time he
goes 70 town is hardly ever bothered
with store bills. He lets the hen bill
take care of the store bill, and Of the
two bills the hen bill is the best bill
by long shot.
Those who have never used fly
spray for their milk cows have been
missing something and should lose no
time in giving it trial, but in this
case trial means its steady use for
a month.
When it's 100 in the shade, WELD
ling "the armstrong" is rather strenu-
Gus business, but weeds cut at such
a time certainly wilt in a hurry.
When corn is caring and the roads
are muddy it is combination that
brings out the smiles. Muddy roads
then are not dreaded at all, for the
moisture that puts mud in the roads
puts ears on cornstalks.
We have been told again and again
to "swat the fly" but find the most
effective way of Kidding the premises
of flies is to trap them. Swatting,
except for the few in room, is too
slow.
The modern post auger or hole dig
ger does it up in about half the time
and with half the exertion Of those
made ten years ago, so post setting
instead of driving is coming into fash
ion. A post we'll set lasts longer
than one sharpened and driven, be-
cause sharpening takes away por-
ton of the post that is most needed
the size that is under ground.
haven't seen new wood culvert
put in this season. All the new ones
have been built of concrete or stone,
or are of galvanized steel. Here's a
glad goodby to the wood culvert.
1t pays to stack straw well. Two
men can do a good job of it with a
blow stacker, one to operate the
blower and another to shape and
tramp the stack. The blow pipe can
be swung around so the man on the
stack has to take very little dust.
Straw is worth saving.
notice more and more people fin
ish up moving alongside field, in
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