The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-07-17
FARM BURROWS.
IAxmer and Stoekrnan.


I1creage of alfalfa than ever before,
u md the first two crops already bar
Invested throughout most Of the central
West have been heavy. Great is
Halfalfa.
Don't complain II the town fellow"
Hdoes satisfy his desire for ice cream
this hot weather; il only makes the
dairy business all the more profitable.
We need non-producers as well as
Iproducers. Non-producers must have
yhatproducers produce, consequently
that creates good market, at profit
liable prices. have no faith in the
theory that everyone should get their
Living from the soil. If a man is able
to live without working, the fact that
Ihe does not work makes the way all
the easier for the man who has to.
But do not believe in keeping men
in idleness who cannot afford live
without-work policy.
\ A good garden is bought at the cost
Of considerable work with the hoe,
yet, where one has the room, much
hoe work may be dispensed with by
planting in long rows and far enough
apart so a horse cultivator may be
used. l notice gardens worked in
that way usually stand dry weather
better, because horse cultivation as a
rule is deeper.
Whenever buy another mower it
will be a six-foot cut. My horses are
large enough to handle larger ma
chine nicely, and when the machine
is old, if the cutter bar drags back too
much on account of its length, l can
cut off a foot.
Usually the purchase of an auto
makes good roads man out OF a fel-
i low, but know of one man who has
owned a machine for year and he
has not yet shown any symptoms OF
road dragging alongside his farm.
He wears out tires enough travelling
. in the ruts to more than make up to
him for the work spent in dragging a
mile of road
Pigs may be carried through the
summer on pasture alone, but some
grain fed in connection returns much
more than market price. Grass shoats
D are usually stunted to some extent
when the new corn crop natures
enough for feed, and it takes enough
more of it to get them in thrifty con-
0 dition so that feeding grain regularly
Through -the summer would be a
" cheaper plan.
Every farmer who turns off $500
q worth of live stock of any kind dur.
ing year, and who owns the farm
n he tills, should also be the owner OF
scales to weigh the stock. Taking
o "short weight" is great temptation
to many buyer, and a few pounds
l of beef or pork counts up in money
these days.
Getting. under the lone tree to save
wetting when sudden shower comes
' up is risky business. The smaller the
shower, it seems, the more deadly the
lightning that accompanies it, and a
}. lone tree standing in field is an in
viting attraction for lightning. lwould
rather take ducking than to act as
= terminal for an electric current.
A cone trap to catch flies need not
be an elaborate affair, nor large in
size. One can take screen wire and
make cone no larger than tea cup,
\ then mount it on base that up
, the proper distance to make an en-
trance all along the bottom, and turn
= glass fruit jar over the point OF the
cone. A pasteboard for the bottom,
with the screen cone sewed to it, and
tackled to small block at each corner,
is good plan.
Hard rains followed by warm, clear
days make it necessary to order "full
n speed ahead" in the cornfield.
r A neighbor of mine had a wire fence
y fastened to the corner ofhis stable and
e during one Of our recent showers a
I bolt OF lightning followed this wire
l. and killed a valuable team in their
!, stall. II is waste of time to tell him
: now that it is wrong to fasten wire
J. of any kind to any building unless il
n is safely grounded. He knows. There
l are many others that might profit by
i his experience.
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