The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-02-20
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stock man..

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ing milk requires more water than
farrow COW; and she does better
when the chill has been taken from
| it.
A dry freeze is good for the soil.
There have been number of them
already this winter, and unless the
spring brings floods, the soil ought
to work up in best possible condition.
There are whole lot of folks who
are looking for chance to adopt chill
dren who will quickly grow into hired
boys and girls, only they expect to
keep them always on the job without
the fornality of paying wages.
It will soon be time to think about
the corn planter. | once lost good
sum of money by using an old corn
planter season too long. 1t isn't
everything that a planter can be made
to work, it is how it does its work
that counts.
A disk harrow ought to be sharp to
do its best work. Loading on weight
to compel disk to cut in only serves
to increase the draft, while sharp,
keen edge gets down into the soil
and turns it up with the least possible
resistance. 1t pays to keep every
kind of disk tool sharp.
On cold morning, when iron is
full of frost, is a good time to twist
bolts off easily and otherwise cause
breakage that could not happen by
mere ''tinkering" during warm
weather. Zero weather is poor
time to make repairs on machinery.
An ak, for the same reason, will nick
quicker on cold morning than at
any other time.
The public sale has been of daily
occurrence for long time, yet stuff
continues to sell well. The public
sale is prairie institution, and is
therefore strictly American. The
fastener, visiting in the West, is
surprised at the number of public
sales held, and naturally he wonders
if everyone is wanting to sell out and
leave, the changes made appear to be
so numerous. 1t is only the western
way.
Almost everyone has more rough
ness than they need, and hay is get
ting cheaper instead of higher every
week, an exact opposite of conditions
at this time last year. There will be
fodder to spare on many farms, this
spring, but better have it to pile in
for the stock to bed on than to have
to buy at high prices, as was the case
with many last spring.
A galvanized iron roof may not be
the thing for the stock barn that is
poorly ventilated, but it is the best
and the longest lived for the open
cattle shed, the corn crib and other
common outbuildings 1t will outlast
shingles and it will be there in good
shape after two board roofs have
rotted and gone.
There is no farm animal that is
more particular about his bed than
the hog and if his bed is not clean
and dry there is trouble in store for
the owner The worst bed hog can
have is a deep layer of damp straw
that has begun to heat.
In order to get the most out of oil
meal for hogs it should be mixed with
boiling water and allowed to stand a
few hours before mixing with the
other slop. Some feeders get good
results by feeding it dry, but their
equipment is different from that OF
the average pork raiser.
Dynamite is powerful helper in
Kidding the farm of stumps and stones,
but it is a good plan to study his
habits carefully and let him use his
strength where it will do the most
good. The man who tries his
strength against dynamite at close
range never makes second trial if
he can avoid it.
The first parcel post package de-
livered at our box was a sample of
woven wire fence. Long live parcel
post, also woven wire fence.