The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-06-05
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Encourage the boys in entering tie
corn growing contests; let the giris
join the cooking club or the tomato
canning club. Train, teach, enccur-
age toward the soil. \:
Don't get the habit Of using the
sprinkling-pot on the garden, il YOU
possibly can avoid it, as you will have
to continue to employ it till a good
shower falls. Rather form the dust
mulch for the conservation of what
moisture is in the soil.
Pass a dampened cloth over the
shedding horses Just before starting
out on drive with them. The loose
hairs will cling to it and the annoy
ance of having them fly in the face
will be avoided. S31
l find it doesn't pay to let a seeding
stand too long. What is usually called
a volunteer stand Of clover seldom
pays, because there is usually too
much of a stand Of it and it becomes
sod-bound. Seed some other fieldand
raise big corn on the sod.
All this noise about good roads
might as we'll quiet down because
when enough farmers have bought
automobiles to make it worth while,
they will go to work and build the
roads and not say word about it.
That is their way Of doing things.
An extra four-horse evener stick
comes in handy. Much of the wood
used in eveners nowadays is so poor
it is liable to break at any time, and
more particularly at time when you
are very, very busy and want to lose
no time.
Nine times out of ten the man who
kicks on someone else doing road
dragging for pay would not do it him
self if he was to be paid the same
price for it. believe in road drag.
cling, and in the road authorities pay
ing for it, and if the dragging is well
done at the right time, do not care
who has received the pay for it, just
so it is the man who did the work.
If more of our farmers knew that
the average yield Of potatoes is less
than one-half as high in the United
States as it is in some of the Euro
pean countries, it might enthuse them
into whipping up" little in their Ell
forts to make our soil produce some
thing near what it ought to-not onl,
in potatoes, but in various other crops
Working in the field until rain actu
ally falls is a sure way of gettini
soaked. usually give the storm clou'
the benefit of the doubt and try to &c
to the barn before proof is Furnished
that it is going to rain. Waiting to b.
convinced often ends in an unpleasan
siege of the grip.
The newspapers are already giving
us figures on the crops of 1918.
notice the winter wheat crop salread.
known, if newspaper reports are to b.
believed, but l imagine all Of us will
know much more about it after tn
threshing machine cylinder ha
hummed a few tunes.
One likes to be neighborly, but rath
er than overstock his pasture lands
simply to, accommodate neighbor, b.
taking in some of his stock, a farme
had better lock his pasture gates ant
wait till midsummer to turn his owl
stock in.
To plant small potatoes does no
always mean to raise small potatoes
One of the best crops of potatoes
ever raised came from small seed, bu
it was small because the year befor
had been a poor potato year, not be
cause the seed was culled and tn
culls were planted.
Instead of buying more land to ski
over in a hurry, would it not be a bel
ter plan, in some cases at least, t
spend more time and some Of tn
money in improving the land alread
owned. The production of many
farm could be added to Is per Ger
by tile draining, at barely 10 per Ger
of the value of the land.
always have been great believe
in the use of the harrow as soon
possible after the shower. wait,
| possible, for a shower when ! have