The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 9, 1911, Page 7

FARM FURROWS. Farmer and Stockman. I strongly favor the plan adopted by some corn belt states of distribut- ing pheasants to farmers. throughout the state. If these are properly pro- tected for a period of five or ten years there would then be a supply of beautiful game birds. A Nebraska man, S. J. Case, says that he has recently put a concrete ‘ floor in his horse stable, but he is be- ginning to fear that this kind ofa stable will be hard on his horses’ feet. He asks for the experiences of others who have tried the concrete floor. We know a number of in- stances where two inch planks have been put down on top of the concrete these being placed about one inch apart so as to keep the floor dry. The space is made by using an inch washer and this held in place by run- ning a rod through the planks edge- wise across the’ stall. The flooring for each stall should be separate so that it can be taken up. : I don’t believe there is anything more provoking than to buy a pure- Rau oaks ice 6 aed bred animal from a man who either | J§ Leck Penny. through dishonesty or indifference | {gj SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St., N.Y, fails to furnish you with the pedi- om J re 8 Scott's Emulsion It is the standard treat- § ment prescribed by phy- sicians all over the world for this dread disease. It is the ideal food-medi- cine to heal the lungs and build up the wasting body. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS Bend 10c., name of paper and this our beausiful 8 Savings Bank and Childs Sketch-Book, Each gree. Ihave hada little experience on that line and the effect was to rather disgust me with some branches of the pure-bred stock business. A good way to keep the pump from freezing on very cold nights is to bank up around it with snow. This is also a better covering for the water tank than horse manure, be- cause itis cleaner and keeps out the dustry in this vicinity, but there are quite a few who are longing for the time when the prices of beef and corn will adjust themselves so that it will pay to feed steers, and unlessall signs fail their longing will soon be satisfied. One of the signs of the coming spring is the indelible smile on the implement man when he asks you what machinery you will need next cold just as well. ___,. |Season and invites you to come and Dairying has become a leading in- look over his stock. In looking at MISSOURI STATE BANK Established A. D. 1880 $55,000.00 Capital . . - : $13,250.00 Surplus fund and undivided profits - After thirty years of continuous and suc- cessful experience offers its services to the peo- ple of Butler and vicinity promising an absolute safe Bank for deposits, and granting every ac- commodation to customers that is consistent with safe banking rules. : DIRECTORS Jesse E. Smith, John Deerwester, W. M. Hardinger, Wm. E. Walton, R. B. Campbell, Frank M. Voris, Clark Wix, . A. B. Owen. Dr. T. C. Boulware, Wm. B. Tyler, C. H. Dutcher, J. B. Walton, ‘THE WALTON TRUST CO Capital : : : : $55,000.00 Surplus fund and undivided profits - $89,000.00 ______ Loans money on farms on long time-and-at— low interest rates. Has a complete abstract of title to all land and town lots in Bates county, from the United States Entry down to date which is kept up with the records daily. Will furnish reliable abstracts. Fees reasonable. We will pay interest for time deposits for any idle money you may have. DIRECTORS John E. Shutt Dr. T. C. Boulware John Deerwester Wm. E. Walton F. A. Taylor COMPETENT Auctioneéer lam a graduate of one of the largest auc- - tion schools in the world, and T absolute- ly know my business. Put your property in my hands and I will make you money. REFERENCES: W. B. Carpenter, Trenton, Mo.:; A. W. Cies, Chillicothe, Mo.; Peoples Bank, Butler, Mo. RESULTS GUARANTEED SATIS- FACTORY. OR NO PAY Write or See me fot Date. “ADDRESS BUTLER, MISSOURI, ROUTE NO. 2 Frank Allen Wm. W. Trigg Frank M. Voris C. H. Dutcher Rede machinery be sure to see that it has an easy riding seat. Jt will help keep the boy on the farm. No one who intends to build a silo should be discouraged because he hears that some other farmer has filled his silo once then joined the “never-again”’ club because his silage was unfit for hog feed. There are such cases on record, but compared with those who have made‘a success of feeding silage they are in a hope- less minority. Many mistakes have been made in putting up silage in the past. Filling the silo with corn that is too green is one of them and failing to make the sides absolutely air tight is another. A small sized knot hole has been known to spoil nearly a cubic yard of silage. The good roads question is being discussed more or less of late. It will be noted that those who do not pay any road taxes and even try all kinds of dodges to get around work- ing their poll tax are just as loud in expressing their opinion on the road question as anyone else. In a few weeks we are liable to have the real thing in bad roads, then, no doubt, the discussion will end for awhile. A man can work out his own salva- tion best with his own tools, instead of with tools borrowed of his negigh- bors and kept until the owner is com- pelled to call for them. The worst jolt I ever got was when a man came to borrow my self-binder. He was very careful to state? too, that he didn't want to hire it, but just to bor- row it. Sometime a man can pick up a bar- gain in a second-hand piece of ma- chinery at a public sale, and again he “gets not what he believed.’’ Stand- ard makes are usually in shape to speak for their own value, but a man must be able to judge of the shape. Sometimes a machine is old after only two years of use. An old neighbor of mine, now in an- other state, writes that his wife is a wonder when it comes to buying stuff with the chicken money. He had just figured up that she had bought over $300 worth of furniture, clothes for the children and groceries for the family, during the year just ended, while the actual sale of eggs and chickens amounted to $135. He says his wife does not mean to juggle figures, but gets excited when telling what all she has bought and gives the credit all to her chicken raising. February first is the half-way place in the feeding season, according to the sayings of our fathers. If that proves true this year it will cause some rejoicing on part of those who feared that they would be short of feed before spring. Here it is February and the fruit crop has been killed only twice. It is usual to have the fruit killed at least seven times before this and sev- en times during March and April. Ben Franklin, otherwise known as “Poor Richard,’ ‘‘did” this little rhyme: ‘February, second day; half the grain and half the hay.’”’ Grain is more plentiful with many than is hay, this-year. has shown signs of weakening at times, hay holds right up to a stiff price. The summer drouth was hard- er on hay than on corn, it seems. Three years ago one of my neigh- bors beat the weather at killing his fruit crop. He neglected to wrap his young trees and the rabbits girdled them completely. In this case the fruit crop for all time to come was put down and out on those trees. For the last week I have been nurs- a full-fledged case of the grip, pet- ting a well-developed boil on the back of my neck and trying to keep up with the chores, while all outdoors has been a glare of ice underfoot and a misty fog overhead. Don’t wonder if some of this week’s furrows are crooked and poorly turned. Ialways feel sorry for the rural free delivery man when the roads be- gin toget bad inthe spring. It seems to me it must be a very tedious prop- osition to drive twenty or twenty-five miles a day when you are obliged to go over every inch of the read at a slow walk. Improving every shining hour cer- tainly doesn’t ‘mean to work like a squirrel in nut-gathering time when The Farmers AND THE Farmers Ban could not do much without them. Let us be your book keeper for 1911. a record of your years business. We want your business. The name “FARMERS” always comes first with us. During the year 1911 we want to help as many “FARMERS” of this community to be prosperous in their business as possible: If you succeed in saving a portion of what you make during the year, you establish a permanent foundation for your prosperity. Open an account with the FARMERS BANK. The little bank book we give you will keep We take accounts no matter how small. We While—the-grain—market}mare-15-years-_old, in foal by imported. W. F. DUVALL, President O. A. HEINLEIN, Vice-President FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY HOMER DUVALL, Cashier H. H. LISLE, Assistant Cashier Public Sale of Live Stock. The undersigned will offer for sale at their farm, 3 1-2 miles south of Foster, 4 3-4 miles northeast of Hume, | 4 1-2 miles northwest of Sprague, on, TUESDAY, FEB. 14, 1911. Seventeen Head of Horses—1 iron gray mare, 8 years old, weight 1500, in foal by jack; 1 iron gray mare, 5 years old, weight 1400, bred to jack; 1 3-year-old mare, a full-blood Bel- gian, weight 1300; 1 bay mare coming 6 years old, weight 1350; 1 pair dark bays coming 3 years old, weight 2600 one of them in foal by jack; 1 black draft filley coming 2 years old; 1 brown horse, coming 4 years old, weight 1100; 1 roan horse coming 4 years old, weight 1100; 1 well bred roan mare coming three years old; 1 pair of sorrel driving mares, extra good ones, coming 3 and 4, weight 2100; 2 bay horses coming 3-year- olds, draft stock, good ones; 1 sorrel Shire horse; 1 aged mare and 1 aged C. W. Hess . THE PRESCRIPTION DRUG STORE REXALL GOODS STOCK REMEDY horse. Twenty-Nine Head of Mules—1 ex- tra. good pair of mules, horse and mare, 8 years old, well broke, | weight 2600; 1 pair of bay mare mules, 5 and 6 years old, extra good; 10 head of mare mules, coming 3; 2 horse mules, coming 3; 1 horse mule, coming 4; 7 mare mules, coming 2; 4, horse mules, coming 2;.1 mule colt. These are all good mules and possess the quality. Forty Head of Cattle--3 Hereford cows with calf; 3 Hereford heifers with calf; 1 Hereford calf; 3 yearling steers; 6 head coming 2-year-old heifers; 8 steer calves; 18 extra good Galloway steers, coming 2 years old. Seventy-Five Head of Hogs—35 brood sows, 5 with pigs by their side; 38 head of shoats weighing from 70! to 140 pounds; 2 Poland-China boars. Sows are all bred to farrow in March | and April. The above is a splendid! lot of stock throughout and most of it is extra good. Will also offer 500 bushels of good. sound corn. TERMS:—All sums of $10 and| under cash; all sums over $10 acredit| of 9 months at 6 per cent interest | from date if paid when due, other- | wise 8 per cent from date. 2 per cent | off for cash. Approved security re-' quired. _No property to be re-| moved until terms are complied with. | A. 0. Higbee will serve lunch. Sale begins at 10 o'clock a. m. Don’t forget the date. ~ DUVALL-PERGIVAL TRUST CO. C0. Farm Loans | Abstracts | examine and perfect titles to same. - Investments | interest on time deposits. | W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. CASH CAPITAL, $50,000. FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate of interest with privilege to pay at any time. We have a complete set of Abstract Books and will fur- nish abstracts to any real estate in Bates county and We will loan your idle money for you, securing you reasonable interest on good security. We pay J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. Percheron Stallions, Mares, & Fillies For Sale All registered stock I invite inspection of this stock, as it will com- pare with any of the kind in the United States. All of my horses are bred from import- ed stock and are top notchers. If you buy from home parties you always have a recourse if it is not as represented. Farm three miles notheast of Butlet. Telephone 4 on. 125. $