The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-01-16
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.

OIL, especially Wnere tnere is an or
chard of young apple trees near by.
Older trees will also suffer if the
snow piles up so that he can work
among the branches.
The farmer who has never used a
tanning mill should get one as soon
as possible so as to get well acquaint-
ed with it before the busy season
comes. Those who have never clean
ed their seed grain would be sur
prised if they saw all the foul seed
they have scattered over their fields.
Treating seed grain for smut is still
regarded as book farming by some,
but this is mistake. 1t is as practi-
cal and necessary as the use Of the
tanning mill and the farmer who ex-
poets to ride in his own automobile,
which means everyone, must see that
his seed grain goes through both
operations.
Those who have nothing much to
worry about and are not satisfied un-
less they are worrying about some
thing are taking on their woe-begone
looks and saying that our ice crop
will be total failure this winter.
Here is hoping that the weather man
keeps them on the anxious seat for
some time.
Now is good time to overhaul the
work harness and put in rivets and
stitches where they do the most good.
A stitch in time will save nine, is
true saying, and with this work a
stitch at this time will save a whole
lot of time at time when time is
scarce.
In gathering pointers on the silo
question it might be we'll as starter
to get squirt at the cream checks
of those in your neighborhood' who
are feeding silage to their, cows. If
they look good to you it would be in
order to visit their farms and see how
the stock looks and size up the work
of feeding and storing. 1t is unnec-
essary for those who build silos in
the future to Ego it blind" unless
they choose to do so.
The work of laying the so-called
rubber roofing is not finished until
after all the laps have been cemented
after the nails are driven. If this is
neglected the heads of the nails will
soon rust and storm will be liable
to start some trouble that will put
other troubles on the shelf for a
while.
Experience has taught me that
nothing lighter than three-ply roofing
should be used for the roof of any
building, also that the boards under
the roofing should be either flooring
or shiplap carefully laid.
. A farm is usually known by the
quality of farming done upon it. l
know of great many good farms
that are known as poor farms because
the quality of the farming done there
on is poor.
For want of good culvert, several
rods of road is often converted into
A mudhole and remains a mudhole
until the sun and wind dry it up. 1t
IS poor policy to do a good piece of
road grading, then spoil it all by ne
ylecting the culverts.
There is not nearly the scramble to
sell corn there was a few weeks ago.
IN some localities, where feeders are
numerous, the scramble is quite the
,ther way, and there is decided up
urn in the price of corn. The man
Who was going to have corn sell for
quarter before spring has another
.uess coming, and he may have to
ust about double the amount of his
ormer estimate.
The latest halls from an Illinois
orn breeder, who thinks he has in
reased the yield of his corn by al
Ways selecting seed from stalks hav-
ng two ears. Now, so he claims, he
las corn that invariably grows two
ars, and oftentimes three. His
urther plans are to still increase the
ield by selecting hereafter from
talks bearing three ears.
1t has been my experience that it is
etter to raise one good ear of corn /
n a stalk than two nubbins, and only
'hen all conditions are exactly ideal 8
o the two ears to the stalk amount
} more than nubbins. For this rea- L