The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-07-31
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stock man.

When II comes TO perfumery, z
corn field just coming out in tasse
and silk has the drug store kline
beaten mile.
l do not like to leave the potatoes
in the soil a very great while after
they have ripened. A soaking rair
is apt to start sprouts, and a potato
that has sprouted in the soil before
digging is always watery.
The fruit crop of the future is going
to pay better than it has paid in the
past, but because of worms and in
sects of various kinds, it will take
work and knowledge of what to do to
raise the best crops. Many orchards
are dying out without the owners
planting new stock.
Again it will be good idea to buy
Irvine needed for the corn harvest
early. Last fall there was a shortage
and it looks as if there would be this
fall. The country now uses a lot of
Irvine to tie up the corn crop. Better
buy what you have to have when
you can get it.
Better take look at that empty
stave silo. Warm winds and sun
shrink it fast, and hoops should be
kept tight so it will stand through a
hard wind. Mark before you tighten
then let back to that mark when COM
mencing to fill. This will prevent
bursted hoops and warped slaves
when filling.
A pig seldom outgrows the hole he
has been used to using in the fence,
although he may be doing better than
any pig you ever raised before. Pigs
usually do we'll when thay have liber-
ty, but they soon commence taking
too much liberty, particularly if
neighbours corn field is close.
This is the age oflarger machinery.
l can remember when the four-foot
cut mower was standard. When the
cutter bar-w heightened to four
feet and half folks said that was six i
inches to much. Now the six foot is a
common and seven and eight footers {
are quite plentiful. t
Cutting suckers in the corn field [
was once a job for the barefoot boy. Il
if corn suckers the suck S
ers are allowed to remain. Some y
times, if rain is plentiful, the suckers n
bear ears the same as the original u
stalk, but if not they make that much u
more fodder. In the days before the S
corn binder how we did hate to cut S
suckered corn with the knife. +
The fat horse on hot day, in the
hands of a driver who doesn't care "
IS risky combination. Many horses
are ruined or partly so by careless
ness in excessively hot weather. l
notice more horses are "winded" in
not weather when laying by corn
low that most drivers ride instead of
walk. oil
The season for best use of the disk al
blow is approaching. When the soil OF
S dry and hard, as most stubble fields CT
ire during August and September, Ia
10 pillow pulls easier than the disk.
t is hard, dry land pillow. The fo
,nly fault can find with it is the tn
urrow bottom it leaves for the horse pl
o walk in. Being saucer-shaped, it II
S tough walking for the furrow at
lOrse. m
The scent of new-mown hay may W W
re fine thing for our city brothers III
0 dream about, but if they wish to =,
% up against the real thing let them ~
ONE out and help haul on windy ~
lay or spread hay in a barn some ~
ay when the thermometer shows Ill
in the shade. as a,
The number of cows to be fed -.
hould determine the diameter of the -.
Ito to be built, because certain
epth must be taken from the top o.,
ach day to prevent the silage from ar
polling. A ten-foot silo will do .
ute well for ten cows, twelve-foot r,
Ito will furnish feed for fifteen and -,
sixteen-foot silo for twenty or over. ~
a larger silo is needed it is usually :.
etter to build two in order to be
ure to have fresh, sweet feed.
One acre well titled will produce
lore than two acres half titled. This d,