The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-10-09
Farmer and stosl Inan.

II Judging by the interest that b be
ing manifested in farm tractors n All
Of the opinion that it will only be
matter Of a few years until most of iii,
| blowing and pulverizing will be don,
with gasoline or kerosene power
Those tractors that can handle three
or four pillow bottoms appeal to MI
strongly as labor savers and wher
they are idle the expense stops.
Having to hunt up heavier under.
clothes is an indicator of the weather
that is to come. Winter and tax-pay.
ing time never fail to put in an ap.
pearance.
Every farmer can afford "a good
feed rack in his cattle yard. With
feed worth as much as it is this year,
one cannot afford to waste it by feed
ing in a poor feed rack.
can remember when rough feed
of all kinds was considered too cheap
to be cared for in a way that insured
more than two.thirds of it keeping
through a rainy season. Hay was
stacked by piling it and fodder was
cut only in small amounts, the remain
ing stalks being pastured after the
corn was husked, This years prices
are great contrast.
There is always some way of get
ting work done without keeping the
children out of school to help do it.
A subscriber writes to the Burrows
Department that he saves all baling
wire, as he feeds baled hay and uses
it when next corn cutting time comes
to tie corn shocks. Looks like atrick
worth remembering, for shocks tied
with binder Irvine often fall apart be-
cause the Irvine breaks or rots and
then breaks.
look for a good crop of pigs next
spring; that is, good average of pigs
to the litter. The average corn belt
farmer feeds too much corn to his
brood sows, and corn being high in
price, it will not be fed so literally
this winter. The result will be more
pigs to the litter.
A good feed grinder will come near
to paying for itself this year. There
is no question in my mind but what
grinding adds to the value one can
get from grain, but when the price
of grain is low the value gained may
not be worth enough to equal the cost
of high priced labor necessary to at {
tend to the grinding, but this year
any little extra obtained from grain
will be worth considerable money.
Perhaps it is harping on the same
old string, but how about that seed
corn of yours? Have you found it
yet and is it in a safe place for the
winter? There is no use in making a
great stir about seed corn in the r
spring the time for action is here 4
now. e
have letter from Kansas friend, :
in which he asks how one situated as a
he is, is going to have fruit and vege- il
tables without buying in cans. This u
is in answer to the question to the
that as long as we live out
Of cans we may expecta high cost of s
living. Where all fruit and such n
as tomatoes, peas and :
beans were failure, there certainly
is no other way of getting it except to
buy in cans, or to buy fruit, peas and \
beans dry.
We are now entering the season
when we may expect to get all kinds
of advice about gathering seed corn, E
from those who never handled an ear !
of corn in their life. l think advice /:
from that source does more
harm than good and in the language
of the school boy would just like to
tell these fellows to "shut up"
The man who would build a hay
shed for his cattle this year would
build almost as extensively as if he
used lumber, if the hay he used was
Of any account. My first cattle shed
was of hay and poles. It was in use
for several years but required re-
building every few weeks during the
winter season, for cattle would eat
hay off their shed. They would not
have eaten it had it been put in their
racks. Notwithstanding some of its
disadvantages, the hay shed was warm