Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-17
While the ripened apples softly fall
In autumn darys nv the orchard wall

IN autumn Gays by Tue otcnaTu wall.
From the author we have H. R. Stevens
work on "Ensilage of Green Forage Crops
IN Silos.n It gives the experience of MIR.
Stevens with ensilage at Echo Dale Farm,
Dover, Mass, and adds the experience Of
some twenty-five other practical farmers
with ensilage and silos. One of the first
works on ensilage was that OF M. Auguste
Gaffart, translated by J. B. Brown, Of New
York. The present work is TO prove that
ensilaga in silos can be made successful. In
New England and the East this preservation
of green forage crops is a matter of far
greater moment than in California, but even
here this work on the subject can be read
with advantage. Mr.. Stevens claims that
the green crops saved by ensiage pays largely,
and enables the farmer feeding kept up stock
to earn 81 where he earned 81, and that, SO
far as stock feeding is concerned, he can by
it turn winter into summer. A silo is pit,
well, vat or cistein with water-tight sides and
bottom and an open top it may be of stone,
concrete or wood, or by cement upon we'll
packed earth the walls are perpendicular
and smooth. Herein is packed green forage
crops, and the food thus packed in is called
ensilage. How to prepare the pits. treat the
forage, ETC., Mr.. Stevens book explains in
ample detail. 1t is illustrated freely.
Of the making of "Boolxs of Forms there
would seem to be no end. But it is certain
that books OF forms may be improved,
and the issues be those of advance
ment as well as in the cases of more preten-
tious works. We are impressed with the be-
lief that the third edition of Bancroft's
6 Forms and Use of Blanks a" "a. L. Ban
croft & Co, San Francisco. now before us. is
a step ahead. The first edition was issued in
1866, and the second ten years later, but
progress has demanded third before a de-
cade again elapsed. The volume is in law
library style ard embraces nearly 200 pages.
In this edition new and useful blanks have
been introduced, and all those printed in the
edition Of 1876 have been carefully revised
and corrected with the intention to make
them exactly correct. The compiler, j. T. Cow
derry, Of this, the third edition, has endeayor-
ed to follow the plan of the original work,
and his chief labor, it 10 seen. has been in in
vestigating the statutes of the Pacific States
and Territories, and appending to the i'm
portant forms extended notes and references,
which viii be found of practical value
The present edition is divided into two
parts. The first part consists Of forms for
all necessary proceedings in business of all
kinds, outside of Courts of law. The second
part consists Of forms for all proceedings in
Courts OF all kinds-Caunty, District, JUS
tice. Probate and Superior Notes are placed
at the foot of each published blank. Similar
references were not made in former editions !;
and these. with the corrected forms, make
this edition almost new book. All the blanks
are so nicely printed that sufficentspace is left
to make the changes necessary to fit them
for use under the various local statutes The
book is adapted TO California, Arizona, Col
orado, Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,
New Mexico. Oregon, Utah, Washington and
Wyoming.
Glow to Read Faces" is the title of
work by Mary 0lmstead Stanton. printed
for the author by the San Francisco News
Company. It claims to be practical and
scientific treatise on human physiognomy and
organism. Il is freely illustrated, and is
quite q bulky volume The lady is clear
and earnest writer, and thorough deyotee
to the system and doctrine of which he
treats. She believes that mans knowledge
Of himself has not kept pscs with the knowl-
edge Of his Surroundings, and that it is time
there should be sn accordance eff intelligence
between the two. in order that, through
mans comprehension Of his powers and pos
sibilities, he may by scientific methods assist
in improving his own life, and in perpetu-
ating race which shall be an improvement
on the present ore. This, she holds, can
come only through a knowledge of anatomy,
physiology, phosIognomy and hygienic
law, practically applied. Hence she has
endeavored to put this science in as plain
and simple language as possible, SO that the
non-scientific reader should not be confused
by terms whose meanings might be ambig-
uous. She adds that her method of classic
cation in this stem of science is in accord
with that observed by all naturalists in their
classifcations OF the lower animals, and is
based on the forms of the human organism
which are produced by The intermingling of
the vegetative, thorscic, muscular, osseous
and brain and nerve systems. These are
treated in the order of syolution-from the
first evolved TO the latest acquired, the true
and perfected cerebral system. As to how
fas she Justifies these claims in her work we
cannot now say. A more careful and an
ally teal examination of tie volume would be
needed to that end than can now be ac-
corded t.