The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-08-21
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stookman.

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Folks are raising calves off Of cows
better than they used to do. The oil
meal and prepared calf meal we have
nowadays helps out skim milk won
derfully, and it pays well to use it, as
much as calves are worth.
Mrs. Burrows complains that the
price of spring chickens is too low in
comparison with the price of other
meat Last week she was offered
but eleven and twelve cents a pound
for fine acknowledged Plymouth
Rocks, and refused to sell at that
price.
An effort is still being made to re-
duce the cost between the producer
and consumer on all the necessities
of living, but as yet cannot see that
much reduction has been made. Take
the case of the above mentioned
chickens, the consumer would likely
be called upon to pay three times as
much as Mrs. Burrows was offered.
The lone tree standing in corn
field has taken big toll this year. l
have some that have already taken
more from the corn than the trees
could possibly be worth for any pur-
pose. A hedge is reaching still fur
Their into the corn.
A great amount of the dirt grade is
swept off by winds in the form OF
dust at this season of the year. There
is now so much dust that cloud OF
it rises behind each auto and rig.
Wind carries it off the grade.
A neighbor has five sows soon to
farrow. Some years ago gave up
raising summer pigs. want them
to arrive in the spring or long to-
wards fall. August weather, as a
rule, is hard on young pigs.
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1t will soon be time to think about
corn cutting. 1t is time right now to
,, think about repairs for the corn bind.
err, if repairs of any kind are needed.
Your local dealer may not have on
! hand just what you want if you say
nothing about it until the day before
you are ready to start the binder.
Fine dust is hard on the bearings
of corn binder, and, for that matter,
J on the bearings of any machinery,
but the corn binder usually has to
take more dust than any other farm
: machinery. l use a good, thick oil
on my corn binder, and use plenty Of
it. If there is a bearing that gets toe
much dirt and dust, try making
n leather boot or cover for it.
An evergreen tree, particularly
cedar, when once established car
stand lot of grief and make gooe
. growth. Dry weather has little eff
!. feet on them but too much manure
: they cannot stand. Making stock
lot out of the windbreak is a grea
mistake.
The rattle of a wagon or buggy
wheel should be stopped as soon as
possible or the wheel will be perma'
I nently injured. dislike very much
to have comparatively new wheels
"set" by the blacksmith, as every
time tire is shrunk on the wheel is
! dished. Preventing looseness O.
: tires by keeping the wheels wei
. soaked with boiled oil is cheaper ane
. better than neglect and frequent tire
e setting.
. Cutting out the muffler is a bat
Z habit for motorists to acquire. Test'
. show that the increase of power due
3 to cutting out the muffler is so small
!. as to hardly be accounted for in frac
! tons. The muffler cut-out is all RICH
e for testing the firing of the cylinder
e and for adjusting the carburetor, bu
. otherwise it adds only noise to tn
q machine and often frightens horses
g High speed machinery makes farm
e ing more dangerous than it was whil'
:, big muscles were all that was need
: ed to make a success of farming
: Corn shredders, silage cutters ant
e e other power machines have no re
d spect for ''main strength and awkard
:. ness"
= It The sour smelling swill barrel i
Z not found on as many farms as form
;. erly. This is partly due to the fac
= that we are slowly learning that tn
!. hog prefers clean food and a cleal