The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-12-04
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockmsn.

Corn husking, even with the NOR
fortunate Of us, is shorter job thai
usual this year. l wish there wer
more husking to do than there is, 70
this country is going to be closel.
pinched for corn before another -cro]
natures. 333
The city man who complains of ~
appetite should come out in the coun
try these crisp, cool days and tackl'
about ten hours of pitching manure
into spreader. I'llguarantee the ap
petite will be there all right, if tn.
energy is left to feed it.
Running water any distance in ;
ditch, alongside the grade is unsatis
factory business. More or less will
soak into the grade, making it soft
and in time of high water it will tr,
hard to cut across the grade and fol-
low a natural course. Making a dam
of a grade, in order to carry water q
certain way, is usually not as sue
cessful as it should be.
The timber lot comes in for its
share of the hard ticks between now
and early spring. A sharp ak, sharp
saw and good engine and buzz saw
are the equipment included" as the
auto statesmen say.
1t is also nearing the season Of
year when the freezing proposition
must be kept in memory. Is the wa
ter drained from the auto radiator,
from the gasoline engine water jacket
and emptied from the several and vari-
GUS other receptacles in which its
freezing would do damage? Thoughts
should run along these lines before
going to bed these cold nights.
Keeping ruts out Of the grade is
great aid to good road making. Even
if there should be a smooth track
for the travel, if there are ruts on
either side, the grade is muddier after
the next rain simply because those
ruts hold water on the grade. Keep
ing a grade nice, smooth oval by use
Of the drag is the cheapest system of
maintaining good dirt roads.
l cannot bring myself to believe
that there is a great deal of money
in hog fattening asmatters now stand.
Where there is corn enough so it may
be had for around 60 cents, perhaps
there is some money made, but in
those sections of the country where
corn is worth 80 cents a man can
barely break even in feeding it to
hogs. This high price of corn is both
ering everyone, except the man who
mas some of it for sale.
Bedding is a scarce article this year.
The dry summer was good for hay
making, and did not get forkful
spoiled by rain. The quality, too, is
rood enough so the horses eat every
scrap of it. Where bedding is to
.eme from when little straw is gone
s more than | know.
1t takes but a short time to see that
Ill bright tools are we'll CREASED, but
t takes long time to scour them in
he spring if they become rusty dur
ng the winter. Even if the shares
and shovels were we'll
creased when put away, they may
iced another greasing about now.
OF course it's the old, old story, but
more machinery rusts out and rots
'ut in the weather than is worn out.
is too bad that nation of farmers
IS enlightened as we allow such a
waste to 60 on. sometimes think
We are too prosperous to take care of
What we have. The hundreds of
thousands of machines housed in all
outdoors would make one think so.
We have had a fine fall for getting
he work done, but there are still
many fields to be husked and many
hooks of fodder to be hauled. This
,ill be the case, even if fine weather
lsts until Christmas.
Hog cholera is carrying off a great
lany hogs, but the scare is what will
reate the real shortage. When hogs
egin dying in neighborhood the
wing hogs and pigs are rushed to
larket regardless of weight. With