COUBIEJR SUPPLEMENT THE QUALITY OF ENSILAGE. Condition! u Regard the Filling of 8U0. Good Cotter Mid Steady Power. Whether mode from fresh cat or wilt cd fodder corn, the quality of the ensi lage will be good if the necessary condi tions as, regards the building and filling . ox the alio have been observed. Very watery fodder will give sour ensilage. The more water in the fodder that is, the greener it is out the more acid will be found in the ensilage, .The common practice among "ensiloers" of late years has been to cut the fodder one day and fill it into the silo the next day or as soon after as convenient. Many claim that in this way we handle an unneces sary quantity of water in the fodder, and that the better way is to leave the corn shocked in the field for a week or ten days beforo filling the silo, so as to allow the excess of water to evaporate. In connection with the foregoing. Prairie Farmer says We shall protubly in the future see this latter method practiced more than before, since with our present deep silo there is generally enough pressure in the silo to secure good ensilage. When the weather is good, the corn will not suffer much, but if the' prospects are HARVESTING CORN STOVER. Corn Hai-Teatlng- Machine The Shredder Adds Valne to the Stover. Nothing short of necessity will cause a man to feed long stalks in the barn when they can be shredded, thns mut ing a feed almost as convenient to ban die as hay. To the extensive stock feeder and 2 feet wide, with a canvas bock 4 feet high, whioh extends over and in front of the ends. The trough is nearly filled with a cloth saturated with kero sene, which is also used on the canvas. Tho machine is either pulled or pushed, and tho hoppers, in trying to escape, strike the canvas, fall into the trough and ore stupefied or killed by the kero sene. The best results ore obtained corn stover is a necessity. It furnishes a rough feed which is much choaper than whon the grasshoppers ore young and bay and superior to oat straw. With the! unable to fly. small farmar it Is more a nnnntlon of The foregoing expressions are economy, those of an Illinois furmer who doesn't Costly Ioiect Peat. A statistician calculates that the dep. believe in leaving the corn fodder out in 'nidations of insect pests cost thefrnit the finld nil winter. On thn snhifint of growers oi ine united oiuies f ZUU.UUU,. harvesting he has the following to say 000 annually, while the entomologists through the columns of The Prairir ay that 75 per cent of this loss can be Farmer: prevented by tho proper application of We may safely say that in cutting foi . Insecticides. DREAM MYSTERIES. MAY BE SHADOWY MEMORIES OP PRE VIOUS EXISTENCE. stover allow the corn to stand as lute as possible without losing the greenness of tho loaves. The advont of the corn bar- Special Enrliih Trait. The intellectual specialty of the Eng lish, as we should contend, is their im- vester has greatly facilitated, or rather 'patience of abstract ideas, their inabili will facilitate, the gathering of the tv to believe that because an idea is fodder. In some cases last year the bar- sound they are, therefore, bound, even vester worked very satisfactorily, while when it is inconveniont, to push it to in others it wai discarded for hand out- its logical result They insist on self ting. We have no doubt, however, of government, but are quite content to is future efflcienoy. These machines cut tolerate monarchy and aristocracy. They one row as fast as the team walks and hold to religious liberty as a dogma, tie the stalks in a neat bundle very but tax all landlords indifferently to convenient for shocking and handling support an established church. They either in feeding or shredding. There believe in the equality of citizens and seems, however, to be some danger of tolerato the most astounding differences the bundles molding inside. The shocks in the amount of voting power which should contain 10 to 13 hills square ol is assigned to each, so that a Londoner stalks, and, if intended to stand for some has scarcely a third of the power to in time, should be tied with tarred string ; fluonce laws possessed by an Arcadian otherwise ordinary binder twine will' or man of Kilkenny, do. They swear by the franchise as the There are various contrivances for sheet anchor of liberty, but do not fret, cutting corn by horse power. . The most if they get liberty, because the fran successfulwe have seen working was'chise is a restricted one. Everyman one in operation in Kansas two yearswith us is in the national ideal "free ago. it was drawn by a single horse to say the thing he will," hut when he and cut one row by means of knives. It has said it he comes under very strict Little Satlifactlon Found la the Mny Explanation! Given For the Formation of the Phantasmagoria Which Com to C aa We Sleep. In a thoughtful, well written article on "Dreams and Thoir Mysteries," in The North American Roviow, Elizabeth BiHland reminds us thnt we are sofa miliar with tho phenomena of sleep that the strangest dreams como as no surprise. She says, truly: "Prove that you have tho hypnotio power to make a man feel pain or pleas ure without material cause ; that yon can force him to believe himself a sol dier, say, or a woman, or that ho is three foot high, or two persons at once, and he will gape upon this occult mas tery with awe and wild surprise he stantly conveyed to it by the live i and experiments with bypnotio sleepers prove that some of its functions become in sleep abnormally acute. and vigorous. Why not the function of memory? Tha possessions which during the waking hours were useless, and therefore re jected by tho will, surge up again, vivid and potent, and troop before the percep tion unsummoned, motley and fantastic, serving no purpose more apparent than do the idle, disconnected recollection of one's waking momenta of dreamineas, and yet it may hap, withal, that tbi v tireless brain, forever turning over an over its heirlooms in the night, is seek ing here an inspiration or there a mem ory to be used in that fierce and complex struggle called life. New York Com mercial Advertiser. , ' .,,,,. THE CLIFF RUINS OF COLORADO. A Region or Eepeelal lite reel te St taenia of the PrehliUrle. The cliff mini of the San Joan and tho Mancos have been the center of at- who every 24 hours of bis life, with no traction, have been viewed from all more magic potion than healthy futigue. ! sides, and their wonders have been told with no greater wonder working weapon and retold to the world time and time than a pillow, may create for himself again. Scientific men have visited the phantosmical delusions beside which all! region, have penetrated southwestern mesmeric suggestions aro but tho flat test of dull commonplace. Because people are afraid of being Colorado and have considered that eeo tion a place of especial interest, because the cliff and cave dwellings are probably thought superstitious with regard to the oldest In this strange land, being dreams thore has been an unscientific the first built in that mysterionsjoarney avoidonco of the whole topio, whioh is southward of a great but unknown peo no less superstitious and puerile, the' pie,- For 20 years the prospector has consequence of which foolish revulsion has been that one of the most curious functions of the brain is still in a period of universal investigation left unex amined and unexplained. Some dab bling there has been in the matter, but so far no tonablo explanation has been offered of those strange illusions of sleep with which all mankind is famil iar. The results up to this time of this there will be much rain it is better to opiated by one man standing on laws, indeed, intended to provide that dabbling are for the most part of little fcivn! th fvWnr tn the fnoH nnttor r,vht too piatiorm ano collecting me staiKs what is said shall not be libelous or away and fill it into the silo. But the imtil an armful was mt Wnen he wonld blasphemous or improper. Colonel In essential thing is to have a good cutter BteP off and Place u in 106 8,100,1 or P0U gersoll, the Amerioan apostle of disbe- and steady power. The cutter should be placed close to the silo and the carrier adjusted so to drop the cut corn near the middle of the silo. The cutter should be a power ful ono. By trying to eoonomize on a cutter many farmers lose in a few days enough money to purchase the cutter they need. The cutter should have a ca pacity of three tons per hour at least For this two to four horses will be need ed on a sweep power. A good two horse tread is an excellent power, or a gaso line engine will be found just the thing. Have everything about the cutter snug and tight, so that the cut corn will not fly all over and be wasted. The carrier should be made of chain and slats, as the pieces of corn would wet a rubber belt carrier and cause it to slip. To run rapidly and continuously and to do its work well, none but the best machines will da By using two or the ground. It was really a saver of lief, would on this side of tho water time and labor, and therefore successful, have passed half his life in prison. The shredder is anothor machine London Spectator. which will add value to thn stover. ' it enables the farmer to got more feed for the stock and also to have the feed in a Paul Revere Tower. It is saddening for the patriotio tour- more value than the contents of the greasy, well thumbed dreambooks that formed the only and dearly beloved li brary of eighteenth century milkmaids and apprentices. The greater portion of such labor as has been bestowed on the subject has been mainly directed toward efforts to prove the extreme rapidity with which the dream passes through moTvenient and satisfactory form for handling. Bv sheddinar we obtain the. towers or old Christ church to be, . . ' . ., x . mora feed from the stover while it caii told that he is not seeing the original be stored in the barn or in stacks ano windows from which Paul Revere hung fpA na iwwiTflnimitlv as hav. Onr eirnerl. Out his lanterns, but a copy, the real enoe would show that it keons oerfectlv tower having been blown down in the when shredded in the fall, which is cer- great gale of 1804. However, there are tainly a much better time for handling plenty of genuine relics inside where it than to be compelled to haul direct the vast majority of Boston never goes, from the field during the rough weathoi There are still the old deep window of winter. We have found that the or- seats, the balcony surrounding the dinary thrashing machine does the work church, with its supporting pillars and equally as well as a shredder, the only npper arches; tho top "slaves' gallery," objection being that the corn is shredded "d the antique pews. The bottom of and badlv broken, and. of course, will the ancient pulpit of hourglass shape is not keep if thrown into a bin, especiallv lef nsi bnt the top was given away by - ..... . . 1.1 1 l . ' i n nn hil. 1 t in the fall. But II the gram can be led, "B unureu uwuiuis iu ioav. xno ciuc o . . f. i,h m, vi.M: it certainly makes a rapid and satisfao nnder the rail has told of the flight of from the wagon directly toi wrf Wlv w uauum luo iccu- :r " " ZC.ri "' J7A Catton in deorgia, 'silver communion service bearing the be passed the cutter without unloading on the gaannd. Arrange every detail about the cutter so as to economize all the time The three best varieties as shown by royal arms wore gifts from King George and Manor tiHmto 1 the Georia tation II in 1788; the huge christening basin u. L f.Lf.r, are King's Improved. Jones' Reimproved came from a parishioner in 1730. The and Hutchinson's Storm Prolific. King's marble bust of Washington against the may be easily lost if the strictest atten tion is not given to details. Harvesting Kaffir Corn. Professor Georgeson gives this advice in a farmers' bulletin : The crop should be cut and shocked as soon as the grain is ripe. English sparrows will damage it badly if they have the chance. Over ripeness also causes the white Kaffir corn to shell when handled. Unlike corn, all varieties have the very desirable quality of remaining green after the grain matures until killed by frost The fodder is therefore still in excellent con dition when the grain ripens, and, when cured, will make better feed than if the plant had dried up, as the corn plant does. The crop can be harvested in several ways. At the Kansas station it is usu ally cut with a sled cutter, which takes two rows at a time. The cutter is pulled by one horse and requires two attend ants one to care for each row. The crop is collected in armfuls as cut and shocked. Any good corncutter will do the work. It can, of course, also be cut by hand if a machine is not available. A light, short crop may even be cut with a self binder. Some growers use a header, collecting the heads only and leaving the fodder to be eaten off by stock. The header will out off a large per cent of green leaves with the heads, which renders the curing of the latter. preparatory to the thrashing, more diffi cult In that case it is best to pile them with layers of dry straw to prevent heating ' Prone In the Pacific Korthweat. From careful investigations The Ru ral Northwest has learned that prunes are grown in 20 counties of Oregon, in acreages ranging from 20 acres in Curry county to 5,000 acres in Douglass conn ty. The total for the state is given at 28,370 acres. Washington produces prunes in 27 counties, and the smallest acreage in any county is 60 acres in both Columbia and Kittitas. The total acreage is 11,600 acres. Six counties in Idaho produce prunes in quantity, and the total acreage is 6,450 acres, of which Ada and Canyon counties have 4,600 outward cause at the moment of rous ing from slumber, such as a noise, a light or the like, whioh wakes the brain to this miraculous celerity of im aginative creation. The goneral conviction that dreams occur only at the instant of the awaken ing shows how little real attention has been bestowed upon the matter, since tho most casual observation of "tho dog that hunts in dreams" would show that he may be chasing the wild deer and following the roe in the gray kingdom of seeming without breaking his slum bers. He will start and twitch and give tongue after the phantom quarry he dreams himself pursuing. But given the truth of any one of these assertions, still the heart of the mystery has not yet been plucked out since it is not ex plained why a noise or a gleam of light such as the senses ore quite familiar followed the San Juan river and gased with careless unconcern on the rough and broken walls, so full of Interest to the archaeologist But the mind of the prospector na no room for curios, and he has no time for archaeological investigation, He sees only the glitter of the gold in the sand, and thinks only of the time when ho shall have made his stake. la No vember of 1802 hundreds of gold bant ers rushed madly into the canyon ncrtti of the Navajo mountain, traveled 800 miles over bleak, desert tablelands, suf fering terribly from the cold, hunger and the long, wearisome journey. In a few days they had staked off all the available land for 60 miles np and down the river and then returned home with out having obtained so much aa a color of gold, and today have nothing to show for it but the stakes. It is one of the most wildly piotu esque and beautiful regions U the world. The bleak old Navajo mountain rises abruptly and towers like a grin sentinel over the surrounding mesas, while in a canyon gorge more than 8,900 feet below its base the Rio Ban Jact appears like a silver thread. The canyon is several miles wide, and a descent can be mode to the, river only by a precipi tous trail, but as the river approaches the great Colorado the canyon becomes more narrow and the wall more perpen dicular, and when it merges into tho Grand canyon it is scarcely more than deep, dark channel ' , A few miles from the Colorado river, whore the canyon is not more than 800 or l.oou leet rrom wail to wail, ana whore the walls are perpendicular and smooth, on the right wall are toe pio- with in waking consciousness should tures of seven warriors with bows A 4- 4 list vi rm - 4- -t unnoiHr nnnciA ftta Iean im 4- IUa I r imai . la CAIinaf has small boll and small seed, but stoodiwall was the earliest memorial erected . . tn . ... illnllnpivnho ... thn nn fhn mmtitA aidn am thn CTLSlrZ -1 frLu.i:-!.! Pidity a series of phantasmagoria in pictures of seven antelope, ap; first as to total value of lint and seed. Jones' has large boll and large seed and stands first as to the value of seed prod uct, but second as to value of total prod uct. King's is a very early cotton, rather small plant and bears close planting. Lowlands, fresh lauds, lands with north slope and lands in the north ern part of the cotton growing belt should bo planted to an early variety. The five year experiments show that the best distance for plants is one foot apart in rows four feet apart, in middle Geor gia. The richer the land and the farther south the greater the distance. Com mercial fertilizer paid a profit when less than 800 pounds per acre was used ; 800 to 1,100 pounds paid expenses, but 1,200 pounds resulted in a loss. It did not pay to divide the amount into several been placed in position but ten years after his death. Boston Traveller. A Boy'i Sympathy. A 14-year-old boy went into his moth er's presence with one eye black, his lips swollen and a ragged scratch across his cheek, the blood from which he had wiped off with his shirt sleeve. Nicodemus, " cried the parent as he crawled in, "have you been fighting again?" ' 'No, " he sullenly grunted. "Then what on earth ails your face?" "Jim Green's ma's dead, " he replied. " Well, suppose she is. What's that to do with your disfigured face?" "I seed Jim just now," answered the boy, "and he looked awful sad and lone doses, to be applied at different times)8006 during the growing season. Bed on all the fertilizer save 60 or 100 pounds per acre before planting and put this 60 or 100 pounds in drill with seed at time of planting. This starts off the yonngi plants till their roots reach the main supply. A mixture of 468 pounds acid phosphate, 86 pounds muriate of potash and 286 pounds cottonseed meal peri acre was the best fertilizer nsed. Gnu Por Lowland. Sow the grasses on the rye and cover them with the harrow. Do this as soon as possible after the ground is dry in the spring. Sow timothy, red top and aMke clover. Use four pounds of timo thy, three pounds of red top and three pounds alsike clover per acre. These three varieties go nicely together. They "Well?" "I didn't know what ter do ter make him bright and happy like, and, feelin sorry for him, I jest went up and let him hit me a few licks. " "Did it help him?" asked the mother. "Help him?" echoed the boy in a surprised tone. "Of course it did. Don't you think it'd make you feel good to bust a fellow that way what had licked you every week for a year?" Pearson's Weekly. Jamaica Folklore Baring. Ebery day bucket go da well ; one day bottom drop out What costs notin git good weight Patient man drive jackass. One time fool no fool ; two time fool pidity a series of phantasmagoria in pictures of seven antelope, apparently order to explain to itself the familiar! in full run to escape the hunters. These phenomena of light or sound. I pictures are well executed and are ia It is broadly asserted by many that' the most inaccessible places. Evidently tho memory retains each and every ex- the artist had to be lowered from perienco which life has presented for its ledge hundreds of feet above th picture contemplation, but this is hardly true. and held suspended while he performed It makes to a certain extent a choice his tedious task. There are many places and chooses oftentimes with apparent J in the mystio southwest where snob caprice. To demonstrate tho truth of paintings are to be found. Denver this, let one endearor to recall tho nrstj Field and Farm. impression retained by his childish mind, and it usually proves to be some thing extremely trivial. A lady, interrogated as to' this, de clared her first clear memory was a sense of the comfort to her tired little, the 2-year-old body of the clean linen sheets the A Preparation For Pn441g. Very many persons would like to know how to pad sheets of paper so as to make tablets, but do not understand proper composition for put;4"; on edges. The following recipe is of the bed at the end of the most perilous vouched for by competent authority! and adventurous journey, and of whose. Glue, 4 pounds; glycerin, 8 pounds? startling incidents her memory had pre- linseed oil, one-half pound; sugar, one served nothing. Again this capricious quarter pound; aniline dyes in safia f acuity will seize on some few high oient quantity to color. The gin is lights in a vivid picture and reject all, softened by soaking it in a little cold the unimportant details. As a rule, water, then dissolved, together with th) however, it is the profound stirrings of, sugar, in the glycerin by aid of beat the emotions which wake the memory over a water bath. To this the dyes are to activity. A woman never forgets her1 added, after which the oil ia well stir- first lover. A man to the end of his life can recall his first triumph. Miss Bisland believes that we inherit many of the memories that come to us, waking as well as sleeping. Every one has felt many times in his life a sense of familiarity with incidents that have had no place in his own experience and has found it impossible to offer any ex planation for the feeling. Coming sud denly around a turn of a hill upon t I fair and unknown landscape, his heart him da fooL When towel turn tablecloth, dere'sno mav bound with a keen sense of recos all flourish best on low land, ihe over- bearin wid it (Directed against codfish nition of its unfamiliar outlines. In the flow should help rather than harm aristocracy. ) midst of a tingling sense of emotions them, and they mature about the same Me dead hog a'ready; me no min sensation of the whole incident being a time. It is somewhat surprising that.hot water. mere dull rendition will rob it of its When cow tail cut off, God Almighty joy or pain. A sentence begun by a brush fly fi him. (Apparently another friend is recognized as trite and old be- way of saying "God tempers the wind .fore it is half done, though it refers to alsike clover is not more grown when we call to mind its affinity for such sit uations and the excellence of the ha; which it produces. Prairie Farmer. Soeoaatfol Oraathopner Catcher. The grasshopper catcher successfully tested by Professor Goff of the Wiacou acres; total for the three states, 46,820 gin Btate university station consists of i. to the shorn lamb.") matters new to the hearer. A sound, a ores of prune orchards. Spit in de sky, it fall in your face. : perfume, a sensation, will awaken feel- (A maxim of prudence. ) ings having no connection with the oo- Big blanket mek man sleep late. casion. Too much sit down broke trousers, i Ia sleep the brain is peculiarly active Shut moot no catch fly. (A plea for in certain directions, not being distracted sheet iron shallow trough, 10 feet long dleac Journal of Amerioan Folk- by the multitude of impressions con- red. It is nsed hot Another composi tion of a somewhat similar nature is pre pared as follows: Glue, a pound .' glycer in, 4 ounces; glucose simp, about tablespoonfuls; tannin, one-tenth ounoe. Give the compositions an hour or mcr in which to dry or set before catting or handling the pads. New York Ledger. , A Trick of th Profewloa. As two eminent physicians were stroll ing arm iu arm along the boulevard ono of them bowed to a lady who crossed their path. "A patieut eh?" "Ob, not a serious cane. I attended her lately for a pimple a mere speck on her nose. " ' "What did you prescribe?" "Prescribe? Nothing at all, though I absolutely forbade her to play the plana" "The piano? For a pimple on tho . nose? I don't see that " "Ah I I ought to tell you, perhaps, that my rooms are just below hers," La Libre Parole.