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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, SEPTEMBER 1, 1882,
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(Tenn.) Record.
The Southern World is one of the best
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Farmer's Home Journal, Coshocton, Ohio.
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Alabama.
Sinking n Cheap Silo.
(Carolina Spartan.)
I have a neighbor that has just finished a
very good, cheap silo, made by his farm
hands. It is dug in the floor of his barn.
The pit is aboutseven feet deep in the earth,
and a double pine-pole pen is built around
on top of the pit seven feet high, leaving a
hollow space of two feet between the
two pens, which is filled with the earth
dug from the pit and rammed in
tight; the inner edge of the inner pine-
pole pen is just even with the edge of the
pit so as to make the pit six feet above
ground, and seven feet in earth, and by mak
ing a door-way in the pine-pole walls, he can
get at his ensilage very conveniently. My
neighbor, (Rev. J. B. Adger, D. D.,) proposes
to line his silo with rough plank simply
leaned lengthwise one end against the wall,
in order to keep the ensilage off the earth
this being all that is necessary. His silo is
far enough under the roof of his barn to
keep it from seeping water in at the sides.
The barn itself is located on a little rising
knoll. Most barns and wagon sheds are gen
erally located on a flat or elevated spot.
Where, this is the case, it is a very easy mat
ter to make a cheap silo, costing, in a man
ner, nothing. In selecting the location for
an earth silo, there are just two very import
ant considerations, viz.; If not dug under
barn or a large roof already built, where
water is not likely to run in, the location
must necessarily be on the top of some clay
knoll, or on some elevation where the water
will run off freely and not stand near the pit
and cause seeping. A hillside is not a suit
able place for a silo under ground without
cemented walls. Any one that can dig a pit
in the earth with perpendicular walls and
square corners, can make as good a silo on
good location os is needed. Some persons
insist on lining these earthen silos with
plank simply stood on ends all arond the pit,
but I fail to see the real benefit of this, for
the reason that there is always several inches
of the feed on the sides, top and bottom that
are blackened and damaged in all silos; and,
of course, if this thin edging has to be
thrown into the manure pit, it makes no dif
ference if it is a little dirty. A silo dug en
tirely below the earth is cheaper than the
one dug partly below the earth, and made
was covered last winter with rough-edge
plank as a temporary roof that served the
purpose well. I saw a fine lot of ensilage in
an eartben silo in Maryland that was dug in
a clay knoll, as above described, some dis
tance from tho bam. The pit, or silo, was
filled and packed firm until the food was
piled up some four or five feet above the
earth, and rounded off like the top of a
round log. Then the cut corn was covered
over with a thick layer of straw and a thick
bank of earth, that appeared to be about
or 3 feet thick. This earth was some of the
dirt that had been taken from the pit which
seetned to answer the two-fold purpose of
protecting the feed from rain and weighting
down the mass. The requisites necessary
for the successful making and keeping ensi
lage are, viz.: Make the silo as near air-tight
as possible and keep water out. All corn
stalks intended for ensilage should be cut
not exceeding one inch in length, and put
down when the corn is in full tassel and
green. Feavines may be put down without
cutting in the machine, if they are harvest
ed before the vines get too hard. The vines
are in the best stage for packing well when
they are commencing to bloom and the
whole vine in a green and fresh-looking con
dition. The next important thing is to
weight heavy, not less than 1,500 pounds to
the square yard. The more weight the
better. '
In making a silo in the earth the cost is
about 1'2'A cents per cubic yard. The cost of
one nine feet wide, nine feet high and fifteen
feet long, would be equal to forty-five cubic
yards, and the cost for digging would be
$5.62J4. The cost of the cover, pine-pole
wails and door should be added. All the
work may be done by common farm hands.
J. C. Stripling.
Pendleton, S. C.
third fly was slaking bis thirst with the con
tents of the milk jug, when violent cramps
suddenly convulsed his frame, and he soon
gave up the ghost, a victim to chalk adul
teration. Seeing this, the fourth fly, mut
tering to himself, ‘The sooner it's over the
sooner to sleep,’ alighted upon a moistened
sheet of paper exhibiting the counterfeit
presentment of a death’s head, and the in
scription, ‘Fly Poison.’ Applying the tip
of his proboscis to this device, the fourth
fly drank to his heart’s content, growing
more vigorous and cheerful at every mouth
ful, although expectant of hiB end. But he
did not die. On the contrary, he throve and
waxed fat. You see, even the fly poison was
adulterated I”
Enrly Fattening of Animals.
It is quite as important to fatten and
market economically, the animal products
of the farm, as it is to raise them, A pound
of beef, polk or poultry, can be made much
cheaper in September and October, than
later in the season, when a larger part of the
rations must go to keep up animal beat.
There is no sleight of hand in laying fat
upon an animal’s carcass. It must come
out of good honest food in the rations fed
The temperature in the latter part of sum
mer and early autumn, is in favor of the
best use of all the fattening articles of food
while there is enough of green food to sharp
en the appetite, and keep up good digestion
We have found green corn stalks, especially
sweet corn, an excellent article in the stye,
to be fed in connection with corn on the
cob, and corn meal, and other rations. We
have never seen pork made more rapidly
than with this kind of feeding. It will be
safe to feed all that the swine will eat up
clean, and no more. Slack up the feed a lit
tle when anything is left in the trough. This
will require a little attention, but the pigs
will grow so fast, that one can afford to lin
ger by the stye a few minutes, once in a day
to sec the fat accumulate. Corn is high this
season, and we want to make the best use of
it. The best poultrymen we know, begin to
give extra feed in September, when they
mean to kill in November. The Thanksgiv
ing market is pretty sure to be a good one
and brings ready cash. The small potatoes
boiled, and mixed with Indian meal and
hot water, make an excellent feed for tur
keys and other poultry. This favors growth
os well as fattening. The rations of com
and other grain, unground, may be reserved
to the last few weeks of life. Turkeys
should have their liberty all through the ex
tra feeding. Some poultrymen shut up like
geese and ducks, but we doubt the economy
of this method. With a good run, they
will have a greater variety of food, and
thrive better with an access to a pasture
with pond or brook, while they are receiv
ing full feed tor market. All that the fat
tening animals will eat up clean, is a good
rule for the last month of feeding.—Ameri-
icon Agriculturist.
Rome of the eccentricities of modern adul
teration are delicately disclosed to the com
monwealth of consumers by a contemporary
German satirist, in the following neat little
fable
“There were once four flies, and, as it bap
pened, they were hungry one morning. The
first settled upon a sausage of singularly ap
petizing appearance, and made a hearty
meal. But he speedily died of intes
tinal inflammation, for the sausage was
adulterated with aniline. The second fly
breakfasted upon flour, and forthwith sue-
one uug {Nuujr ™>“i »uu uiuuc cumbed to contraction of the stomach, owing
above with pine poles. Any kind of roof to the inordinate quantity of alum with
can be used that will turn water. My silo I which the flour had been adulterated. The
STATE AND COUNTY FAIRS.
Paris, Kentucky, September 6th, five days.
Bardstown, Kentucky, September 5th,
three days.
Bowling Green, Kentucky, September 6th,
four days.
Falmouth, Kentucky, September 12th,
four days.
Maysville, Kentucky, September 19tb, five
days.
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, October 4th, one
day.
Raleigh, North Carolina, (Industrial) Oc
tober 9th, six days.
Greenville, South Carolina, October 10th,
four days.
Owensboro, Kentucky, October 11th, one
day.
Raleigh, North Carolina, (State) October
16th, six days.
Little Rock, Arkansas, (State) October
16th, five days.
Austin, Texas, (State) October 17th, five
days.
Anderson, South Carolina, October 18th,
three days.
Union, South Carolina, October 24th, three
days.
Sumter, South Carolina, October 24tli,
three days.
Camden, Alabama, October 31st, six days.
Weldon, North Carolina, November 13th
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