The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-07-10
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.

FARMER ana StockmAn.
There may be many easy ways of
killing morning-glories in the corn
field, but have never learned any
easy way. My way is to stop my team
when find a bad patch and pull them
up with as much of the roots as l can
get. This usually checks them for a
while.
As the roads dry up and become
smooth the automobile fever breaks
out among the farmers. There are
about twenty autos owned by farmers
in the township in which l live. If
this indicates anything it indicates
that the roads will be looked after
pretty closely in the future.
The call for volunteers for the
clover brigade was unusually well an
swered this spring. Cows, clover and
corn have carried many a family over
the financial seas.
The apple crop is not quite what it
promised to be at the blossoming
stage, but the trees are still pretty
we'll filled with young fruit. An ap-
pie crop that breaks down the trees
is not a thing to wish for.
A well-made board gate is thing
of beauty and Joy so long as it lasts,
but it cannot compete with the all
steel gate, either in service or beauty.
The main beauty about any gate is
its ability to turn all kinds of stock.
Hot weather is "bully for the corn"
all right, but it is not the kind OF
weather that makes the hog happy,
even with the best of care. An open
shed where the hogs can get the adj
vantage of every little breeze and be
protected from the sun is as good as
palace for the hog on hot day.
No farmer would use stirrlngplow
that does not scour, and the same rule
should hold good with the corn plow
shovels, especially the first two times
through the corn. Weed killingis the
main object at this time, and it takes
a sharp, clean shovel to doclean work.
The early bird may possibly get the
worm, but it is a mistake to make this
an excuse for rushing into the field
when the ground is wet and soggy,
either for planting or cultivating. 1t
is crops, not worms, that we are after.
The small gasoline engine is good
friend to have around on hot days
when the wind refuses to turn the
windmill, but care should be used in
buying. The stubbornest thing on
earth is 'balky" gasoline engine.
The neighborhood celebration is
more the rule than when was boy,
and everyone went to their nearby
= town on the day of the glorious
Fourth. The firecracker and pin
wheel is also going out of style.
There is theory that corn is not
growing its best until it .curls in the
heat of the day. 1t does corn no
hurt to curl when small, but it gives
me somewhat of pain to see it curl
at the earring stage, and when it does
not uncurl during the night there is
reason for still more concern.
am going to keep a close watch
on concrete silo made by neigh
Dor. It is certainly a fine piece OF
work, costing $3.50 and looks as if it
might stand for ages. Even the feed
chute is of concrete, nicely rounded
to look the best.
Deep cultivation of corn is not al
ways the thing, although believe in
it when there is plenty of moisture in
the soil. After a loose mulch has
been made by deep cultivation, do
not believe in going down below it in
dry weather. Of course, heavy,
packing rain disarranges all plans and
causes us to change face in a few
hours.
The shortage of cattle is going to be
overcome slowly. 1t will be years, it
at all, before there will be surplus,
simply because so many farmers who
used to keep beef cattle are now de-
voting all their energy to dairying,
and veal the calves. Perhaps we
ought not to sell so many veals, but
so long as it is highly profitable to do
so, we'll do it just the same.
So far this has been great alfalfa
wear. Both the first and second cut