The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-07-03
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stock man.

Inever have raised as good pump.
kins and squash since there has been
no prairie sod to sow them on. The
old stack bottoms, when breaking up
a prairie meadow, used to raise whop-
pers.
In the days. when sickle sections
cost ten cents apiece, and the average
farmer thought he had to hire a black
smith to rivet them on we were very
apt to think twice before filling a
sickle with new sections, but now that
it is possible to get them for four
cents apiece, and most every farmer
rivets them on himself, buying new
is cheaper than spending too much
time grinding out the old ones.
The silo has solved the problem of
winter feeding so well that pasture
for warm weather is becoming more
OF question than feed for cold
weather. AT one time it was COM
mon to hear farmer speak like this:
81 could keep more cattle if | had
more feed to carry them through the
winter in good shape The silo has
changed this, and now it's pasture
during the summer that's more i'm
portant.
Sprinkle kerosene over the surface
Of all pools or barrels Of water about
the premises, and thus strike death
blow to the mosquito-hatching in
dustry.
AS we grow older we can't see why
pushing the lawn mower is not just
as good exercise for a young boy or
girl as dancing the turkey trot to rag
time music, but we do little thinking
it always seemed easier to husk corn
all day at a husking bee and have
whooping good time all night than to
90 into the field and husk alone.
f, The self feeders and automatic
waterers do not "jibe' with the old
Scotch saying, "The eye Of the feeder
iattens his stock. " The trouble with
too much of the feeding done nova
days lies in the fact that too much of
it is left with the hired help.
The old SOW, at this season of the
year, is seeker after green food, and
to do her best by her litter she must
have it. Raising hogs in dry lots is
the most expensive way possible to
conceive, yet, as cheap as fencing now
is, many persist in doing it.
\ commonly accepted theory re-
gardins the handling of alfalfa now is
that the cutting should be done on a
cool, rather cloudy day. 1t is claimed
that hot sun drives the moisture
from the leaves into the stalk, and
while the leaves (the best part of the
hay) will quickly shatter, the stem
dries slower than it does without a
burning sun.
We talk of the hog as a mortgage
litter. How about alfalfa?
Gas homely as hedge fence" has
been a common saying as long as |
can remember, but, at the expense of
considerable elbow grease, hedge
fence maybe trimmed into thing of
beauty. l have forty rods of it that
| keep trimmed, and l can testify to
the amount of work necessary to keep
it down.
How things do move and improve!
Now some fellow has invented an
engine for attaching to the binder for
running the binding apparatus of the
machine, leaving nothing for the
horses to do but pull the binder, there
by saving the work of two horses, it
is claimed. 1t is claimed that the en-
CINE can be operated for from thirty
to fifty cents day, and weighs but
200 pounds.
A farmer need not be dressed up
"sprucy-lihe," but there is no reason
why he should 60 like a 'hobo." He
can be neatly dressed and fairly clean
most of the time, even though he may
get little hay seed in his hair.
Soon the weather will turn so warm
land often dry) that the lawn trees
will suffer materially for want of
sufficient moisture. Put the gener-
Gus amount of straw around the base
of each tree, weight it down with peb-
bles or round rocks, and thus retain
the surrounding moisture. This also
Al