The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-06-19
FARM FURROWS
Azner and seock man .

FARMER and ssoekman.
When crossing corn, particularly If
talks have been plowed under, like
I - wait until the tenders may be dis
pensed with. Like fly nets to a har-
mess, tenders add double their weight
g the handling Of the gangs.
If you are riding In aswiftly moving
vehicle, like an automobile, you can
easily tell whether the road has been
dragged or not. Dragging takes out
III the wrinkles"
1t is now an admitted fact that every
farmer ought to own silo and his
wife ought to have a canning outfit
TO match the silo. je
Trouble is one thing the farmer
ought not to borrow nor lend.
Sprinkle some bran and corn chop
on the calf's nose after it is through
drinking its skim milk (only one-third
corn chop, however). 1t soon gets a
taste Of feed in this way and thus will
learn to eat. 49,.
The line fences should be closely
looked into when one is purchasing
q farm, or he may also be buying a
lot of trouble with some adjoining
farmer.
Wait till you are just ready to use
your binding Irvine in the small-grain
fields; then hustle off to town after it,
when your dealer likely will be sold
out. Or, if you are lucky enough to
secure the Irvine, be sure that you will
pay good, stiff price TO it, as there
almost invariably is shortage Of har-
vesting material in country places at
that particular season.
Our corn crophad its ups and downs
at the same time this year, some going
down by way Of the planter and some
coming up to take look at the sun
and breathe the fresh air. The work
of getting the corn planted between
the rains kept us all busy.
With so many crop killers standing
around anxious to give each crop a
bump, it is no wonder that we raise
so many bumper crops. Perhaps it
goes, bump, bumper, bumpest. Letus
try to make this crop the bumpest
crop we ever raised regardless of the
bumps and bumpers.
Eight pigs is good bunch for
young sow to raise. If there are any
more in the litter it might be we'll to
do a little pruning especially if there
are any weak, runty ones among them.
They will be pretty sure to be crowd
ed out and die, anyway, and if taken
away early it will give the others a
better show.
Hog cholera is a disease that is
dreaded by all hog raisers and having
had couple of sieges of this disease
l don't feel like giving any advice as
to "cure." believe that in this
case an ounce of preventive is worth
a ton of cure and that ounce is found
in keeping their quarters as clean as
possible and using good disinfectant
quite freely. A little lye with their
slop occasionally will keep them free
from worms, but a we'll hog seldom
needs doping" any more than well
man.
Put a good camera or kodak in the
hands of the boys and girls. You will
be surprised at the enjoyment and
profit they will derive from it.
Ourgrandfathers used putenough
weight into buildings in large timbers
to pull them down. Almost without
exception the roofs on those old-time
buildings would become sway-backed
in q very short time. The rafter of
years ago was larger than the sill of
today. II is fact, however, that
some Of the building done today is on
a too slender order.
Any dairy cows that are not Com
ing out of the kinks" with the aid of
this fine grazing ought to be marketed.
Sometimes the pigs will provide
their own Creep (under the fence).
but what call a creep" is feeding I
pen where the small pigs may 60 to
and where the oldhogs cannot. Ipro-
vide such a place for every batch of
pigs l have, beginning to feed them
there when six to eight weeks Of age.