The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-02-06
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stock man.

| profits inside the hog house.
! Zero weather may be exactly
our liking in every way, but we mus
not forget that it is bully for the ic
crop.
| Fix up neat box house on pol
for the martins to nest in this sum
mer. They are the cheeriest lot O
chatterers one can have about tn
farm and are world of company
especially to the women. Then the,
chase the hawks and crows away ant
are death and destruction to thous
ands of bugs and insects that other
wise would prey on the orchard
fruits and garden products. Build
ing smaller boxes for the bluebirds
and one for the wrens will also be q
little time profitably spent.
Doing business on credit is all right
to certain extent, but it is we'll to
remember that the less anyone s
credit is used the better it is.
Pay particular attention to the
calves from now on. Often they are
crowded out of their shelter by the
older stock, unless one make sure
that they are in snug, comfortable
quarters, where the larger stock can
not reach them. Then we cannot ex-
pect the little fellows to do we'll on
the same rations we give the grown
stock. A little bran, oats and corn
chop equal parts, some clean, ten
der roughage Glover or alfalfa is
BEST, and plenty of pure water at the
temperature it comes from the we'll
all these are pressing essentials that
cost little, but count for much in the
growth and development of the
calves:
If mice can get to the stacker rope
the chances are you will have to buy
a new one before you begin haying.
The manure spreader is labor
saver, all right, but this is not its
only good point. 1t is the greater
acreage that can be covered with a
given amount of manure that counts.
When manure is to be spread on
meadow land or in the pasture the
spreader is so far ahead of the fork
that no comparison can be made.
The telephones and rural free de-
livery of mail have helped make farm
life more pleasant. Now it looks as
though the electric storage battery is
going to make it so that it will take
an expert to explain what is meant
by "the conveniences of city life"
Dry forest leaves form an excellent .
article for putting in the poultry
shed, and make a fine fer
tilizer for the fields after being used. {
Up to the present there have been
few days that the cows could not en-
Joy a couple of hours out of doors. 1t !
is best, though, to allow them to be :
the judges of the length of time they
shall stay out. When they come to
the door they should be allowed to
walk right in and should find a feed d
awaiting them. When this is the d
rule it is very seldom that they will
stay out longer than what is good for
hem.
Colts and milk COWS should not be d
urned into the same yard atthe same
ime, especially in the winter time, S
because what is play to the colts is
Orture to the COWS and COW that is .
o do her best must know as little as
possible of even the mildest form of S
orture.
Poultry netting stretched across d
lie windows iii the hen house viii
'rotect the panes and let in more u
light than any other protection in
OmmOn use. d
1t is unreasonable to expect that ,
very man who builds a silo will :"
make success of it because if they ~
o every one of them would have to ~
e con the job" every day in the .
'eek. The silo, like many other u
1ings, is not money maker in .,
self. 1t all depends on the man ~
Tanning horse hides and having
lem made into robes is all right, but g
le practice of tanning their hides
lille they are on the horses backs Il
all wrong. ''Lickin' and larnin' " IL
o not 60 hand in hand even in horse
aiming. &C
Small leaks on the farm are what