The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-04-09

Some people never hear anything
shocking enough to make them close
their ears against it.
Flocks of ducks and geese tell us
that it is time to get busy with the
tanning mill. 1t seems that the
weather man gives them little ad-
vance information as to the time when
grains will be scattered over the fields
and their experience has taught them
that the early bird gets the grain.
A lazy brood sow is hardly ever a
good one and her laziness can some
times be cured by cutting down the
corn ration and moving the feeding
place farther from the sleeping quar-
tiers. BY all means keep the: brood
sows moving around some every day
until narrowing time.
Fruit trees may be pruned almost
any time if care is used in painting
the wounds and cutting away the un-
desirable branches before they are
too large. Perhaps the very best
time to prune is before the sap starts
and in the month of June.
All the cities, as we'll as the big
ones, have been having automobile
shows. The strenuous efforts put
forth to get the farmers interested
shows where the dealers hope to get
the bulk of their patronage. 1t is a
fine thing that the farmers are able
to afford motor cars. A few years
ago many "a farmer who today sports
a six-cylinder machine looked upon a
two-seated carriage as beyond his
means. Verify times do change.
When we can all go in flying machines
the good roads question will be
thing Of the past.
The changes in the advertising col
umns Of farm papers are almost as
regular as the changes in the work on
the farm. They make interesting
reading and a great deal of reliable
information can be picked up from
them, especially when the paper that
prints them absolutely refuses to print
any fakes.
No matter how clean the grain looks
in the bin the tanning mill is needed
in order to pick out the best for seed,
and strange as it may seem it is the
ones who have the very finest grain
in their bins that are the very ones
who would not think Of sowing their
grain without putting it through a
good tanning mill.
Letting the cattle run to the straw
stacks is no longer as common as it
was few years ago. believe that
more straw went into the managers in
this vicinity this winter than any two
winters before. When the time comes
that we make use of everything that
grows in the fields we will find that
farms will support fam
lily.
Candidates for office and other pol
iticianS are preparing to turn loose a
campaign Of education" for the bene-
lit of the voter which will last until
The political plum crop has been gath
cred. Later it would be we'll for the
voter to continue the course of edh-
cation long enough to see that the Of
ice holder does his work and does it
light.
How can a man be a good farmer
who has no sentiment in his soul?
These sunny spring days are full of
'omance. There is touch of Won
lrous beauty in the very atmosphere.
)ut in the fields the earth seems to be
lew born, and the mists which hang
ow at dawn and vanish with the COM
ng of the sun seem like the frag:
nents of the formless chaos out of
which the worlds were made. The
Gathered tribe sings in the morning
s sweetly as the morning stars sang
ogether at the creation. The soil is
trangely astir with the mystery of
fe. Flowers push up out of the earth
kiss the daylight. The air is an
lixir. Glorious it is to have the heart
l touch with the marvellous spirit of
allure and the soul in tune with the
lfinite.