The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stock man

HAAM TUnnOWS.
Farmer and Stock man. ~
Lots of folks are willing to sacrifice
appearances for attention.
i You may practice economy ever.
known way, but your taxes nevel
shrink.
Any sort of neighborhood is goot
enough for that person who see!
nothing but its faults.
Plums are ripe and even though W.
called them peaches they could not BIZ
any better than they are.
Swearing at the weather seems to
be an everlasting rainy day job fol
some men who are always behind
with their other work.
With pastures as green as in May
and bushels Of corn growing in the
fields every day the farmer ought to
be a pretty good candidate for the
Il should worry" club as far as or.
binary troubles are concerned.
| If the law regarding weeds grow
ing along the roadsides cannot be en-
forced it should be repealed. 1t is
bad enough to see slouchy farmer
advertise his way of doing business
without allowing him to become an
outlaw.
There never was scrub so scrubby
that little scrubbing Of the right
kind would not make him more sal.
able. There are very few that have
made success with pure-bred live
stock who could not have done fairly
we'll even with scrubs.
Don't KNOCK" your own county
fair. lfyou haven't energy enough
to boost for it have sense enough not
to knock. Remember. your own
opinion Of those who knock the things
you are boosting and then take a
good square look at yourself as
others see you.
After the grain is in the shock it is
made and if it is damaged after that
it is our loss. It is well enough to
say that that grain will keep in the
shock if it don't rain, also that grain
will keep in an open crib if it don't
rain, but it generally rains and some
times it pours.
Get the habit of reading the adj
vertisements in farm papers, even.
though it may take month to find
thing you wish to buy. We don't
Know what we may want a month
from now and keeping posted on the
lads" will help us to get what we
want when we want it.
/ believe it has been remarked that
it is no disgrace to be poor, but that
it is mighty inconvenient. As far as
that part Of it is concerned, however,
! have noticed good many folks in
the possession of more riches than
they could conveniently handle in the
proper way.
The farmer has no reason to hang
his head before any man on earth.
What he puts on the market is Of
genuine value and high essential to
the welfare of the world. He may
have to walk in the dirt sometimes,
but he has the right to be proud
enough to keep his head forever in
stellar space.
The threshing machine in this Vi
cinity refuse to bear out the estimat-
prs guess Of bumper crop of small
grain. Oats is rather light when
sacked up and spring wheat was hit
by black rust in places. Guessing at
he crops may be great fun, but spec
llators find it rather expensive at
lines.
Silence counts very much more for
wisdom than CATERING tongue.
If nature made you homely, for
goodness sake don't try to enhance
Ter handiwork. I,
The young man who marries rose
,ud often finds that flowers soon .
ade, while the thorns are perennial.
Some of my friends would have had
inc vacations this summer if they
MY could have left themselves be-
ind, Is
The fellow who makes sport of a {
alf-witted person may imagine he {
% very bright brains himself, but