The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-01-09
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.

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them at this particular season, on,
can keep close watch for these pest
and when they appear, thoroughly
spray all the animals and their sleep
ing quarters with a reliable spraying
solution.
A good brood mare on the farm
pays her way with the work she does,
leaving the colt clear profit.
AS the old year draws to a close,
and we begin to lay plans for making
the new year brighter and better, all
of us can save ourselves making a
lot of miscellaneous resolutions by
adopting this single, simple resolu-
ton: l will do my very bestin every
way during the season of 1918.
Save all the wood ashes for fertil-
izing grape vines.
Provide all water troughs with
plugs for letting out all surplus water
that the stock leave in them after
drinking, as it would freeze if left in
the troughs, causing big job of dis
agreeable ice hacking the next day
before the animals can drink; also,
giving the water chill by coming in
contact with the ice.
Hang right onto the dual-purpose
COW till you know you have learned
we'll how to specialize, either in dairy
or beef production.
Cheap or poorly repaired harness
often prove very dear articles to keep
around the farm, as they are a con-
slant menace to the life and limb of
everyone who rides behind them.
If you are foolish enough to ne
glect selecting seed corn from the
field before the freeze, that which is
in the center of the shock fodder will
not yet be frozen sufficiently to dam
age the terminating qualities.
As the season for using the auto
mobile is practically ended, the
wheels should be lacked up and at
least one half of the air let out of the
tires. Where the tires are left in
flated and bear up the weight of the
machine, the tires will be practically
ruined by spring. 1t will be even
better if the tires are entirely re-
moved from the rims, carefully clean
ed, wrapped in thick paper and laid
away till spring, as light has dete-
riorating effect on rubber.
Sour cream makes more butter
than sweet cream, but the flavor will
not be quite as good.
No breed of cattle brings such pro-
fits as-the one that is we'll fed and
cared for.
1t is now high time for the breeder
Of pure bred horses to get busy and
ouy his stations and mares for next
season. While it is true that the .
choice animals in all stables COM :
nand what appears to be extremely G
high prices, yet, it is also fact that t
hese are the ones which usually are
'old first. Furthermore they repre- ,
'ent greater value according to the 6
paid for them, than the 9
cheaper and lower grades that one .
must take if he waits little later to ;
make his selection of breeding stock.
Comfortable quarters for the dairy i
lows are as important as feed from i
low on.
Where the corn stubble was sown +
o wheat, the fodder should not be G
lusked out and left lying around on /
he ground. AS the corn is husked r.
he fodder ought to be tied in armful k
'undles, with binding Irvine or bal v
ng wire, and hauled from the field v
t once or else set back up after
usking it out. If it is left to lie on
he wheat, the ground where it is ly-
ag will not freeze now; the wheat
nder it will turn yellow and puny; 9
hen, as soon as the fodder is remov- s.
d, later on, the soil will freeze, and
he tender wheat plants, deprived of 4
heir protection, will be killed by the
udden change and exposure.
The "back to the farm" cry is no
niger a joke, it is wall on the part
t those who have seen the error of
leir ways and would be glad to get
ack and find that the farm has gone
way ahead of them.
No strainer ever yet has been de-
ised that will take all the filth from