The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-07-30
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.

the weeds 90 to seed for them.
One is never too old to learn, but
sometimes he is too old-fogyish.
Folks display good deal Of char
acter by the way they 60 about hav-
ing good time.
As soon as fortune begins to look
up with some folks they begin to look
down on others.
1t is winning pretty good race for
man to keep abreast of the expen-
ses Of growing family,
Some men have deep-seated preiu-
dices and just roost in them all the
time, winter or summer.
! The fellow with the emptiest mind
is the least bashful about putting the
contents of it upon display.
II we could only make our living by
the sweat Of the brow during this hot
weather how easy it would be,
Talking about good things to eat,
what is wrong with dinner of succo-
fash, sliced cucumbers and apple pie?
When fellow starts in to give his
thoughts an airing he usually sounds
like they needed a thorough renova-
ton all right.
Whether the porch is used as a
summer bed room or not it should be
built or remodeled SO that it can be
screened. An open-air place free
from flies and mosquitoes is luxury
these hot days and nights.
Those who are disposed to worry
about the weather are right in their
busy season now if they live on the
farm or depend on the crops for their
living. The experienced far m r
knows that it will not do to "bank"
on fine prospects of crop before it
is at least in the shock.
Old Bill Williams says that he does
not have any great respect for a lazy
person, but still it is sorter nice to
have someone once in awhile to lie
around in the shade with him to talk
to.
When haying begins it may be said
that we are getting ready for winter.
1t seems strange that with so long a
time to get ready in that cold weather
usually PUSHES down upon us and
finds so May unprepared.
| have noticed the farmers who are
succeeding the best and making the
most money are the ones who are the
keenest to know the newest methods.
There is no money in fogyism, and a
very poor sort of satisfaction.
Now is the time to make the repairs
and changes in the barn that we
thought of last winter but could not
make at that time on account Of the
weather. Perhaps it needed more
windows or better floors, doors, stalls
Or better calf pen. The season for
easy changes is here.
A fine shady dell, with a running
stream coursing through it, appeals
70 the farmer not to work too hard.
There ought to be time for a little
play as we go our way through life,
,ven if the work does press us some
low and then. Take time for a pic
tic, a little fishing trip, or just to
azily stroll around through the woods
'nce in while. 1t will help to round
tut life and make it worth living.
No doubt the reason why the far
ner soon becomes good auto driver
s that he cuts up so many queer ca
'ers "all by his lonesome. The
'ther day paid a visit to neighbor
md found him running his auto at a
mark. He had set two light stakes
n the ground six feet apart and the
rick was to run and back the auto
them from different angles
Without touching. Some day his
ractice will pull him out of a tight
lace and will save him more than the
mall amount wasted in "ammuui-
ion" in shooting at the mark.
And now the Chautauqua season is
pom us. These institutions are great
Kings for the farmers. They have
lrgely taken the place of the old
ashioned camp meetings. The taber- !.
acle' in shady grove has strong
ppeal in the hot weather. It is good
, greet the neighbors from all over
le country. There is entertainment,
nd some instruction, from the plat
,rm. Life is spiced with added va