The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-03-05
FARM BURROWS:

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that he does not see howit would pro
4 fit him to put in any more hours sleep
ing than he already does.
The past few days have been fine fol
ripening the ice crop and the harves
is on. Ice.making machinery may n
the coming thing, but as long as !
costs more to operate a machine
through season than it does to pul
: up houseful of ice, the sale Of thu
machine will be rather slow.
The imagination is a fine quality q
the mind, but when we let it play only
upon our ailments and troubles il
serves us very mean turn.
The words, commentator and con.
domination, sound,a good deal alike,
but some folks have never learned the
significance of the former, while they
are quite adept in the exercise Of the
latter.
One can't crouch around all week
and sing a hymn very sweetly on Sum
day.
The gasoline pumping outfit makes
it a little easier to keep the cream cool
during the hot days of summer, but
there are so many other uses for ice
that it is worth the work and expense
to put up supply. I'm time Of peace,
prepare for war;" is good advice for
others than those who desire to kill
each other.
Old Bill Williams says that he
doesn't expect everybody to think just
as he does, because there are bound
to be some fools and weak-witted
folks in the world.
If there were not whole lot ofvice
and iniquity going on in the city how
would the newspapers find stuff to fill
up their columns with every day?
One of the sure signs OF better farm
ing is that some of the wide.awake
ones are taking better care of their
pastures. The farmer who twists a
fence around a few pondsand sloughs
and calls it pasture is bookkeeping up
with the times. Il
Gossip is something that everybody
despises and few have the courage not
to entertain when it comes knocking
at their doors.
Some folks can't see you start out
anywhere after dark without wishing |
to follow to find out what you are GO
ing to do.
The line of least resistance with
some men always leads in the direc-
ton where there is no spirituous
drouth.
Many barns could be improved about
100 per cent by sweeping down the
cobwebs and cleaning the dust off the
braces and windows. It is the extra
cleaning and sweeping that makes one
barn so much neater and cleaner than
the one that gets only ordinary care.
The man who throws away all his
good manners when he goes to milk
never makes good dairyman.
Maybe when the hoop skirt comes
into fashion the farmers will 90 back
10 the old-style way of buying flour by
The barrel. n
1t is to be observed that when a fel-
ow takes notion to lie around idle
he farm seems like a lonesome place,
md he makes off to town somewhere.
life is not suited to idlers.
Town is most congenial for them.
There they find suitable loafing places
md birds Of like feather for compan-
ons. The farm breeds industry. /,
Many people are very confident
bout things they have never given
,alf q test. HI
Few who have never experienced it
ave any idea what Joy there may be- y
lad in having the first radishes in the
III
II the separator = kept in the barn
should be In q roesm BY itself and
biz room must 30 kspt - clean as the
lining room In he bouse, Just al
srely q ono poor horle hampers tho
york Of fourlhosss team, ! earelessE
Jsamery patron NJ hamper the work II
30 dozen careful 60 without anyI Z
hin to himself.
Opinions diner = - w bet floox
Or barns. .hut, nanesi1 II oG1ee tint tI1tk