The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-08-27
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stoekman..

There is no way to heal lame ex-
cuse.
The truth ,never travels very fast
unless it has an ugly countenance.
Vacation time for folks is harvest
time for the chiggers and mosquitoes.
tits better to starve to death on
vain hopes than to live on diet OF
everlasting fear. II
He who is actuated by little preiu-
dices is run by the smallest horse
power Imaginable.
About the sweetest music one ever
hears is the patter of gentle shower
which breaks up a drouth.
Laughter is said to be great med
icine, but some folks will not take it
except at somebody else's expense.
Whenever tits hot it is awfully hot
to the fellow who has nothing to 40
but lie around and complain about it.
!, When some. folks think they are
happy they become so arrogant that
it takes good deal Of grace on my
part to wish them we'll.
Old Bill Williams says that a good
neighbor is one who doesn't cross to
the other side of the street to get out
of his way when he sees him coming
with an empty pipe.
A good beginning may be half the
battle, as the old saying has it, but it
is we'll to remember that it is only
the first draft upon the energy re-
ouired to carry project through to
: the end.
It is well to take day off for pic
. mic once in awhile, but see to 1t that
il is not too hard on mother fixing up
) the lunch and getting things ready.
have noticed that many picnic IN
4 creases that tired look on mothers
face.
Those who are not busy at much OF
anything are trying to estimate the
j.. value. in dollars and cents, OF our re-
d cent rainy days. They have JOB on
their hands and l hope before long
y will be able to tell us the exact value
y per gallon.
) Many an automobile tire is worn
out-in search for comfort and happl-
. ness which might be found without
the wearing out of much shoe leather.
l. Every cottonwood shade upon gras'
g sy lawn offers fine opportunity for
vacation.
W Every corn-belt farmer shoule
g know how to stack grain. II we &c
~ rain enough for corn we are quite
r., =. likely to get enough to spoil grain II
70 the shock. Don't take any chances o
spelling the crop after seeing i
Of through to the shock.
ol 1t is all right to observe the mis-
" takes our neighbors make and t
''s avoid making them ourselves, but
~ is a mistake to laugh at them on &C
" count of their mistakes. Better speal
nj to them in friendly way and posi-
d. bv they may open our eyes to feV
re of our own.
We 1t is great deal better to dope tn
OF hog house and yard with good dish
fectant than to dope the hog interna
a ". 1t may be all right to- dope tn
W ~ hog on the outside and to feed some
'se thing to aid in expelling worms, 81
Ct it is we'll to remember that the ''lr
terror works" of hog are very muc
like those Of man.
The silo is an immense fruit jar
which green corn is Canned &c
winter use, and the canning seaso
), will soon be with US. Every. house
,,s wife will tell us that air must be e.
.v cluded from the fruit jar or the col
to tents will spoil, and this is true OF tn
by silo. If care is used in tramping tn
be- silage at filling time there Will {
fewer air pockets to cause mold.
ED A talebearer is the meanest sort
trouble maker there is. How an.
, s body can find Joy in that sort OF occ'
ID pationis mighty hard for me to Sc
The cuelty of it is such as to be r
ing voting to any normal person. Al
nty vet such a person is to be found
ro- almost every neighborhood. "
are quarantine anyone with a contaglo'
DOL disease, but the spreader OF i'll fee
ing fares abroad dispensing polst