The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-07-16
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stoekman.

OF success.
You can't find the harmony Of life
by harming others.
Lots Of folks think you are not
bit reasonable unless you agree with
them entirely.
Nobody is going to find fault with
your taste in flowers when you
wreathe your countenance in good
humor.
Some men are great believers in
the virtues Of pluck, and they pro-
coed to pluck you good and plenty
every chance they get.
If folks only said what they know,
and not what they think they know,
the world would pretty generally be
as quiet as a Quaker meeting house.
Rain and sunshine is making the
corn "boom," but the roasting stage
is still a thing Of the future. Guess
timators may guess at the crop, we
will wait and watch it grow.
Old Bill Williams says he thinks
this here efficiency idea is all right,
and he'll bet there are mighty few
people who can beat him enjoying an
old pipe in the shade of a cottonwood
tree. /
An Iowa farmer drove to town the
other day with his family in lumber
wagon with two spring seats in it,
which was a curiosity that nearly the
whole population of the burg turned
out to rubber at it.
Our local cooperative creamery
paid 80 cents per pound for butter fat
for the month Of May. This is Meth
er boast nor a boost, but a record
that may be equaled or perhaps beat
en- where farmers have learned to
work together for their own benefit.
Don't forget that the butter maker
is the handspring of the creamery,
and if it is to succeed his advice is
worth listening to, both in the care of
the cream and the purchase of ma
chinery and equipment for the cream
cry. There are, of course, takers in
all callings, but as rule they do not
last very long.
Cream must be delivered at least
four times per week during hot
weather, and even then must have
the besteof care at home if the butter
maker is to make "firsts." Quality
is what counts, and this should be
the watchword from the time the
milk is drawn from the cow until the
butter reaches the consumers table.
1t may be that hog cholera serum
will be of some benefit to future gen.
erations of hogs and men, but it will
be after we have learned to keep our
hog yards clean and to feed clean
food in clean places and also to keep
the hogs and pigs free from worms.
If serum can be found that will pre-
vent these ills it will save more hogs
than the other.
Lots Of men just 60 growing
around without any definite notion of
what it is all about. They feel little
out of fix, and, like babies who are
fretted with distress of the stomach
or the prickly heat, they just give
way to fits of fussing. If they would
only pull themselves up for a mo-
ment or two and take good look at
the sort of spectacle they make they
would surely be heartily ashamed.
Old Henry Titewad says that he
made mighty good money running
suffers wagon during the war of the
rebellion, and that he was fortunately
too advanced in years to enlist in the
war with Spain, but he is confident it
would be good thing for Uncle Sam
to 60 down and fight with the Mexi-
cans for a while, because heis sure
it would increase the price of mules,
and he never had nicer bunch of
those same animals in his life.
4 hot day is always awfully hot to
the shirker.
There is no demand for the folks
who make lemons out of themselves,
even in the hottest weather.
About the worst thing about the re-
tired farmers life is the fact that the
lawn mower has no spring seat on it.
Onions are said to be wholesome,
but one almost wishes there were
days set for eating them so that he
could protect himself. :
Al