The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-04-17

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4 engine, bit partll cnlaIiy AZ Il scllii
engine. n,
Hay stacked outside suffers niue
waste and keeping the stacks ri go
shape often requires 40 little Tim
and attention. The recent high wind
untopped most of the stacks and Il
usually happens that the wind whicl
untops stacks is followed BY i deluo,
| of rain. XII
/ The are several signs Of spring
that are welcomed by the farmer every
year, including the flocks Of geese anc
ducks, the frogs, etc, but the farmer
who rushes into the field as soon as
he finds a few dry spots should have
nothing to say about the First robin
that comes hopping around On a fine
day and is caught in blizzard the
next.S -t
The stalk field should be double
disked before the drill is started. As
to dragging, there may be an honest
difference in opinion. The dragging
will, in many cases, bunch the stalks
so that the disks will be lifted and
leave the seed on top OF the ground.
The silo, like all other new things,
has its knockers. With us the silo is
new thing and the knockers are tell
ing us that in ten years the silos that
are now being built will be standing
empty. No reason is given for this
except that this is the case where silos
were tried out years ago. II there is
any truth in this it would be mighty
interesting for us in this vicinity to
hear from some of those who have |
quit using their silos telling just why |
they became discouraged. It would
also be interesting to hear from those
who have fed silage ten years or more
without becoming discouraged.
About the best thing to have laid by
for the kind of rainy days we are H.
able to have now for awhile is water
proof clothing and a pair of water
proof blankets for the team that must
be hitched up in all kinds of weather.
The man who is careful in this regard
will be pretty sure to provide for the
other kind of rainy day that we hear
20 much about. I
The gasoline engine is very much
n evidence at all places where farm
is sold and it is a very
handy thing to have around, but the
buyer should be careful to pick an
engine that is suited to the work he
intends for it. A man driving four
Shetland ponies hitched to a twenty
lisk drill would look like a fool. So
would the man who tries to grind
'eed with one-horse engine. 7
1t is interesting to listen to the
'oung fellows telling things about
What they are going to do this sum-
ner, Or, perhaps, next year. Later
hey will find that there is vast diff
erence between saying things and
DING things, but it is hardly right for
ne who has been through the mill to
iscourage the building of castles in
le air.
The practice of cutting and trimming +
arious trees and shrubs into definite c.
hapes, some of which were very fan n
lstic, reached its zenith of popularity
the sixteenth century, but it held
way for many years after. Itfell into
lsrepute in the nineteenth century, 1.
wing to the persistence with which "
re more natural styles of gardening h
lme to the front, but even now this c,
base ofgardening exercises consid-
able fascination upon a large section
the public. The practice of pruning
arious specimen lawn trees more or 4
IS vigorously, until the heads as 4
lme a spherical orpyramidal outline, Y
al, approach to the topiarist's ideas.
Heavy FrOsts in Kansas
Wichita, Kas., April l2.-There was
heavy frost throughout this section