The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 8, 1912, Page 8

| himself, but no one should forget that {eo in a well-built stack is practi- ‘cally saved, while grain in the shock Smooth-faced collars will not cure decreases in value every day after it gall, but they will do better than cure jis thoroughly dried out and may be it by preventing it. | ruined if a long period of rainy weath- Plan to have a number of stack jer sets in. . yards; then, should the lightning; 3 pikeig a stack, the loss will not be So; Missouri Crop Report. With the prediction that dollar-a-; Columbia, Mo., Aug. 3.—The fol- bushel wheat has come to stay, it|!owing report showing Missouri crop ‘seems that more farmers would sow | Conditions was issued to-day from the this crop as a rotation, which not only | Office of T. C. Wilson, secretary of brings in big profits, but greatly as-|the State Board of Agriculture: sists in resting and upbuilding the; The only complaint, if any, that the soil. | average Missouri farmer found with Keeping the colt’s feet trimmed j the month of July was of a shortage prevents large and ill-shaped ankles. | Of help and time in harvesting more Are those veneers or building pa- | Wheat, oats eee hay bbe the oe pers still wrapped about the young | ore ins Pees ae ae ee yi orchard trees to protect them from , 20@ In atten HEMT CMTS) rabbits? | work crowded in by a season. which If so, be careful how you; . a a i: ~ ‘opened late but tended toward a big remove them suddenly, thus exposing | BAnlbusy finisln Nowiciactityalone Healy fant Teal ty ne DIStE UE | aewrnen to the fields, from which FARM FURROWS. Warmer and Stockman. sun after it has been protected from } it so long. A small boy at little cost will re- move those unsightly milkweeds and others from the grain fields, thereby improving the quality of the grain when thrashed. Besides, you'd be amazed to learn the amount of mois- ture these pests rob from the soil when it should be given to the ripen- ing grain. With all kinds of eatables so high, it will pay big for the farmer to give special attention to the canning and storing of various fruits and vegeta- bles. Get the wife a canning outfit and greatly lessen this heretofore la- berious job of canning. Aside from your own canning, you could can suf- ficient for your neighbors often to pay for the outfit the first season. Get busy now with shaping up the live stock you will exhibit at the fair. | granaries are being filled and where ‘later may come the corn to crowd !many a crib. With ‘‘garden sass’’ plentiful to the’ point of prodigality and with fruit in abundance, the | “women folks” of the farm have {been busy adding to the largesse of ;the larder, to the long rows of jars, jand glasses filled with ‘jams and ; jells.”” | At Columbia the highest tempera- ‘ture for the month was 96; lowest, |60. Rainfall at this section was 1.88 jinches, but more at other points. A ifew counties of the north-central, ! northwest, southwest and south-cen- ‘tral sections were in need of rain at the close of the month, but conditions throughout the state are generally /encouraging. Even in the limited | districts where rain is needed no corn | is reported damaged beyond the point ‘of recovery. Missouri farmers are j It isa mistake to lose the knack of | just now interested in the erection of Apa oi apes Ls RIT Ree beets swinging the scythe. It does not take | long to cut hay enough to last two or| three days next winter in nooks and corners that can not be reached with a mower and it is about the only weapon that can be used against the weeds, Veal calves bring a good price when they have had the right kind of feed and care, but they do not bring a higher price per pound than the finished steer and it is doubtful if they make better profit on the feed consumed. It is the scrub that gets scrub care that brings loss and disap- pointment to its owner. If a grown person who has lived in a large city all of his life should see a field of flax in full bloom he would realize that all of the beautiful things are not crowded into the cities. If he should express unbound admiration at the sight of a field of blooming wild mustard he would be pretty sure to get into a dispute with his farmer friends. Three pairs of bundles set up in the form of a long shock with one pair on each side makes a very good round shock and if a heavy rain makes it necessary to ‘‘turn’’ the shocks it is easily done by moving the side pairs to the ends. The part of the corn plant that is below the surface of the earth is not of any value in dollars and cents, but we must learn to handle it with care because that is- where pork, beef, corn syrup anda hundred and one other good things come from. Now is the time to prevent a whole lot of snow shoveling next winter by cutting the weeds along the roadside, you know where. Oats in stack that have been mown new corn cribs and silos rather than in boring emergency wells or buying windmills to meet a water shortage. Where a year ago twenty-five per \cent. of the live stock went to market at a sacrifice because of dry weather, farmers are to-day looking in vain for cattle to eat the surplus grass. Such stock as is going to market is at high- ly satisfactory prices, and the close of the month sees hogsand cattle selling higher than for many months, choice Missouri beeves reaching the record mark of $9.75 per hundredweight. CORN.—Corn fields, except in a few counties where moisture has been deficient or where the plant has been worked on by insect pests, pre- senta dark, rich green appearance. The condition of corn for the state is 84.6; one year ago, 61.2; ten-year av- erage. 81.7. Acreage is large, being about 7,735,000. Practically none has been lost by overflows. The crop has been well cultivated. WHEAT.—The wheat yield for the state, so far as it is possible to ascer- jtain at this time, is 12.7 bushels per jacre, or slightly more than the pre- Chairman National Progressive Con- vention at Chicago. Big Potato Crop in Missouri. The Missouri potato crop for this year isa big one. It is probable that the yield will be more than double that of last year, when the entire state grew but 2,983,000 bushels, or an average of only 33 bushels per acre. The Orrick district, in Ray county, has grown a crop estimated at 1,200 carloads—more than fifty train loads. Most of these potatoes have sold at from 46 to 50 cents per bushel, in the the cars. The yield will be about 200 bushels per acre. One grower who three years ago bought 95 acres of land at $130 per acre has since grown $23,000 worth of potatoes on this tract, the profit equaling the purchase price. Good potato land in the Or- rick district is now selling at $150 to $200 per acre, and rents at $10 per acre, cash. The Missouri State Board of Agriculture, Columbia, is getting out a bulletin on potato growing. It is free. $50 for a Country Ham. In order to encourage the curing of meat on Missouri farms, the State Board of Agriculture, T. C. Wilson, Secretary, Columbia, will hold a ham and bacon show during next Farmers’ Week, January 13 to 17, 1913. Fifty dollars—$25, $15 and $10—will be given in premiums for best country cured ham, and the same premiums will be awarded on country bacon. Entrance will be free. Farmers should “‘set aside’ choice pieces of meat now, or may enter meat butch-| ered early enough next fall to allow | curing. Fine Yield of Grass Seed. Missouri has this year harvested the best crop of ‘Kentucky blue- grass’’ seed in her history. The ship- ment from one Knox county town in northeast Missouri is estimated at 100,000 bushels, as compared with 55,000 last year. One Jackson coun- ty farmer harvested 1,000 bushels liminary estimate of 12.4. A few yields of 45 to 50 bushels are report- ed. Acreage harvested is estimated at 1,640,700, practically 25 per cent. of the 1911 fall seeding having been plowed up. This would indicate a yield of approximately 20,837,000 bushels, worth, at the average re- ported price of 89 cents per bushel, $18,545,000. All of these figures, though, are subject to final reports. OATS.—The preliminary estimate on yield of oats is 30 bushels per acre being highest “where the thrashing machine has made its revelations,” as one correspondent expresses it. for roughage will require a covering|Some reports are of from 60 to 75 of good meadow grass to protect] bushels per acre. The crop has been them from rains, as the oat hay will/harvested from about 900,000 acres, admit water more readily than the/and even at 30 bushels per acre this other grass. Long, slough hay makes | indicates a yield of 27,000,000, or 2,- the ideal covering in such cases. Brush the sweat and grime from the horse collars. A taste of lemon occasionally, pre- vents excessive drinking of water. Remove the hot, sweaty harness from the horses while they rest at noon. The dry, hot weather causes the fence posts to become loose in the ground and lean or fall down, which will make it necessary to inspect and repair the lines a little every few days till it rains. Mud in the hoy lots would not be noticed so much if there were a feed floor for the troughs and to throw the _ corn on. 000,000 more than the record crop of 1910. Last year Missouri thrashed but 9,195,000 bushels of oats. The average reported price of oats is 35 cents per bushel, indicating a value of about $8,450,000. Final returns may change these figures somewhat. OTHER CROPS.—Meadows are surpassing all early expectations. Preliminary estimates show: Yield of timothy hay, 1.25 tons per acre, a year ago, .5; clover, 1.2, year ago, -7; first cutting of alfalfa, 1.4; mixed hay, 1.4; prairie hay, 1.1. Acreage: Timothy, 122; clover, 94; alfalfa, 103; mixed hay, 107; prairie hay, 106. Quality of all is good, timothy excel- lent. Indications are for a record harvest of timothy seed. An unusuul According to law all weeds should/ amount of pastures is 77, the state be cut from the roadsides, but the/average being reduced by the low and would have had 800 more but for a storm at harvest time. A ‘‘strip- per,”’ a spiked-cylinder arrangement, is used in harvesting the seed. Red Top is another grass crop of importance, especially in southwest Missouri. This crop is harvested with—a—binder,-shocked—tike-wheat and later threshed. The yield runs from 4 to 12 bushels per acre, 14 pounds constituting a bushel. The price is variable—from 5 to 14 cents per pound, although it has sold as as high as $14.50 per hundredweight. Another grass seed crop of Mis- souri is ‘English Bluegrass,’’ grown in Henry, St. Clair and other coun- ties of that section. Wesley Griffith was a pioneer grower, and his daugh- ter, whose home is in Henry county, has many acres of the grass. This year five carloads have been shipped from Lowry City alone. The price has been 12 1-2 cents per pound, or $3 per bushel of 24 pounds. With a yield of from 13 to 19 bushels on best meadows this means returns of from $39 to $57 per acre. The Missouri State Board of Agri- culture is calling attention to the fact that the grass seed crop of the state for an average year is worth $1,000,000, Asks $50 for Missing Books The Logan-Moore Lumber Company has filed a suit against the M. K. & T. law cuts no weeds. A sharp scythe | condition of 56 for the northwest sec- | three months. When they finally and a little pride on the part of the land owner will cut more weeds than ‘the law ever did or ever will. co, 82; cotton, 69; To stack or not to stack is a ques-/age, tobacco, 95; cotton, Sam Levy Mercantile NEW © Arrivals of Fall Goods In every department of this Big Store. It’s a good time right now to supply your wants for School Wear. Our qualities are always the best. Our prices are always the lowest. 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