The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-12-25
FARM FURROW
Farmer and StockmAn.

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an earnest believer in every wordof
certain almanac, and who drank IA
Ions of patent medicine with the lin
plicit faith of a little child.
Flowing and breaking in Decenbe
is rather unusual with us, but thi
open style Of winter made it POSSIBLE
this year and a great many took ad
vantage of it.
The Scriptures say, ''Whatsoeve
thy hands findeth to do, do it with tn,
might; not "Whomsoever."
Truth usually wears such plair
clothes that a whole lot of people re
fuse to receive it when it knocks a
the doors Of their minds.
Some of the ''old timers tell us
that blowing stalk fields late in the
fall will result ina weedyfield the mex
season. This may or it may not be
true, but they will have their II told
you so" in working order next year
whether the fields are very weedy or
not.
Some folks can't bear the smallest
sort of a cross without acting as cross
as a sore-headed bear.
! 1t would be too bad to end the Jour-
ney at the poor farm after travelling a
good part of the way in touring car
bought with mortgage on nice
little farm.
1t is pretty good thing to remem-
Der that no boy ever thought more
highly of his ather for having heard
him use profane language.
A great many of our wants are only
bankers.
The man who keeps improving his
farm as the years 60 by is always one
whose mind keeps growing, and that
is about the richest harvest to be
gathered in this life.
Many farmer who is careful never
to overwork horse fails to take prop
err care that the load upon the Shout
ders of the mother of his children is
not greater than she ought to bear.
The right time to start the tank
heater is before the tank is full of ice.
1t takes little extra work and some
fuel, but the satisfaction of seeing the
horse and cattle drink their fill will
pay for both. The increase in butter
and beef is extra.
The boomers prospectus of a dis
tant country never paints the draw
backs.
The man should keep his troubles,
like his pigs, in his own pen, and not
allow them to bother anybody else;
but his pleasures, like the flowers in
his garden, should yield their fra
GRANGE for every one who passes by.
Now is good time to observe
the clover hay was cut at the
right time or not. If the stalks are
0are OF leaves the hay was cut too late
and is very little better than corn
stalks.
Earth floors are the best for all
kinds of stock if they can be kept
clean. Cement floors are easy to keep
clean and are all right if plenty of bed
ling is used. 1t seems that every
hing lacks an eff of being perfect
Darn floor.
The man who is the least worthy to
oe heard is the one who usually
bitches his voice the highest, his wis
lom running to sound rather than to
sense. II
When some farmers hire a hand
hey seem to think that it is part of
lis business to be filled up with. an
account of all the faults of every other
hired man they ever had on the place.
There are fewer corn shocks stand
ng in the fields this fall than in for
ner years. The silo and the shred. ,
Ter are the cause Of part of this, and
more farmers are stacking their corn.
This is the kind offarming that makes
1igh-priced land.
The fellow who loves to give ad-
'ice generally wants to be Just sign
board to stand still and let others do ,
he going.
Our roads were quite smooth when |
ne ground froze this year, but would I
rave honn cfil1 cuoookhor 70 <ho,, Ill .