The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-05-08
FARM FURROW
Farmer and Stock man .

II Clover seed is so high in price thi!
spring that everyone remembers how
1 good stand was once secured by
Sowing a remarkably small amount o.
Iseed. 1t certainly is too high priced
to sow more seed thanis necessary.
Grass seed is quite the opposite oil
clover, so the mixtures are very APT
to contain more grass than clover.
Where wanted for pasture this is not
always bad falling.
| am a great believer in planting
corn medium and uniform depth.
Going deep to reach moisture or
planting shallow to escape moisture is
notalways the right thing. The deep
planted seed may be flooded and the
shallow planting be dried out.
When a number of sows are farrow-
ing close together, and some litters
are large and others small, it is often
possible to take from the large litter
and give to the small, thus evening up
the numbers. 1t is good idea, how
ever, to watch matters for awhile, to
see that the adoption is going to prove
successful.
you want to sow a mixture Of
grass seed, it is my advice to buy the
several kinds you wish to sow and do
the mixing yourself. know of sew
eral neighbors who bought seed al
ready mixed, and the mixing was
done with view of economy, rather
than in consideration of the proper
ton the mixture should contain. Some
even had every appearance Of being
floor sweepings.
Farms that are lacking in natural
timber should be producing an arti-
ficial grove. have ten to twelve
acres of natural timber on this farm,
yet half acre was set to catalpas a
few years ago, and now | wish it had
been three or four times as much. l
consider the catalpa one of the great
est trees we have.
Good timber is becoming so scarce
that wagon and vehicle makers are be-
ginning to wonder where they are 60
ing to get good stuff, particularly for
wheel material, a few years hence.
The iron wheel is all right when the
height is low and the tire broad, but
am afraid it never can be made to
exactly replace the common height
of wheel used on farm wagons and
buggies.
1t seems to me that blacksmiths do
not get as many jobs of pointing cult
vator shovels as they used to. l can
remember when it was a common
thing to make set of shovels last
for years and years, but they are so
much cheaper now that when a set
has become badly dubbed off it seems
cheaper to buy new, rather than have
the smith stick on new points.
A sow can be kept too long, and
often many of us keep some old thing
A year too long. We wait until she
fails with litter before shipping her.
have one that has a complete failure
,halked against her, and now she will
20 to market as soon as she can be
made ready.
It may not pay to keep any very
great surplus Of corn in the cribs, yet
t is sometimes mighty comforting to
xnow that it is there. One year with
mother, counting out shrink and in
crest on its value, doubt if there is
profit in holding corn from one season
o the next, but it sometimes comes in
handy to have to feed out a bunch of
logs when no one else is feeding be-
;ause of a corn shortage. At such
ines the price is usually right.
The weather man handed us
whole case of London without any
as far as getting into the
ield is concerned during the first half
1 April. We needed the moisture
nd perhaps this rain and snow are
ust what we needed to give our an
lual bumper crop start.
Cooperative shipping associations
re being organized in many parts of
be corn belt. Their main feature is
} give those who market less than a
arload of hogs or cattle at a time a
nance to club together and sell their
We stock at the larger markets, thus