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.