Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-06-03
FARM AND FIRESlDE.

L am 80 acre farmer, and have 80 by 40
feet barn, with basement on stone walls
s feet height. This basement is used as
shed for COW stables; the barn floor above
runs crosswise through the middle with a
NOW on each side. 1 wish to make silo
! and try it, if it will not cost much. What
can [ make cheap one for, to hold the
| corn fodder of two or three acres
c. y.
| We suppose your barn floor is about IA
feet wide, and the mows on each side 10
feet wide or thereabouts. If you can spare
Is feet from one end of your basement,
you may make silo for about $50 or $50
which will hold seventy tons of ensilage.
If this is more space than you want, you
may extendit only half way across the end
of the basement, or else make it narrower.
The first thing to do is to see that there
are sufficient horizontal timbers to hold
| the vertical planks in place; then surround
the intended space with two inch hemlock
planks spliced to these ii nbers; the planks
may extend upwards two or three feet
above the barn floor. They need not be
heavy coat of crude petroleum on both
sides before or after setting them, as may
be most convenient. Cover them outside
with tarred building paper to make them
alright, and outside these nail rough
inch boards. The two inch plank, tarred
paper and inch boards will secure the con-
tents from any frost which can enter the
basement.
1t will save much labor in winter feed
ing it plank door, opening below or in
the basement, is provided. This may be
secured with cross-bars till needed for use,
and only a small portion of the ensilage
next to it need be thrown out above in
order to get at it. Through this door the
contents are easily conveyed in baskets or
WheelbarroWs to the stables on the same
level.
Some arrangement with screws may be
devised for pressing the fodder, but as you
are experimenting the first year, it will
probably be less trouble to resort to the
common and simple way Of loading the
plank covers with stones, sand or earth,
which require no further care after being
placed in position.
There are two ways to fill silo. If you
have no suitable horse-p power and stalk
cutter, you may throw the green fodder
from the load as it stands on the barn
floor directly into the silo, to be we'll trod-
den down OR pounded with heavy wooden
Founders, as eacn successive layer is de-
posted. In this case the fodder should be
sown so thickly in the burrows that it will
not grow large; the stalks should not be
an inch in diameter, or the cattle will re-
ject portion. For this purpose three or
four bushels of seed will be required for
an acre, on rich ground. If, however, you
have tread power and stalk-cutter, you
may use large stalks, which, if cut not
more that three-fourths of an inch long,
will be entirely eaten. If you have but
one pair of horses on your small farm. you
may cut and draw a load to the barn floor,
then remove the horses to the horsepower,
and while one man is feeding the machine
the other will pitch the fodder off the load
to him, the stalk-cutter being so placed
that the chopped stalks will be discharged
directly into the silo. A third man will
level, tread and pound stalks as they fall;
or the two men may do this work as each
load is finished Country Gentleman.
blood to the head, and in fever, the fol-
lowing simple treatment is to be commend
ed: Put handful of salt into quart of
water, and an ounce of spirits of hartshorn
and half an ounce of spirits of camphor.
Cork the bottle tightly to prevent the es-
cape of the spirits. Soak piece of soft
cloth with the mixture and apply it to the
head; wet the rag fresh as soon as it gets
heated Soaking the feet in very warm
water in which spoonful of mustard has
been stirred, is also beneficial in drawing
the blood from the head. Two teaspoons
full of powdered charcoal, well stirred in
half glass of water and drank at once is
valuable remedy in sick headache from
sour stomach, fatulence, etc. Tincture
of nux vomica is recommended by Ringer
as possessed of real curative powers when
given in drop doses, repeatedly every five
or ten minutes for eight or ten doses, and
then continued at longer intervals. for
sick headache, accompanied with acute
gastric catarrh, whether due to error in
diet, constipation or no apparent cause.
SHINGLES ON a ROOF.-TO ascertain
the number of shingles roof will require,
first multiply the length of the roof in feet
hy1i ~, md tIa
IA. This will give you the number of
square inches of one side of the roof; so
that if you want to cover the roof with
cypress shingles showingsfive inches to the
weather, multiply the length by the
breadth of one side of the roof and the
quotient by IA. Now cut off the right
hand figure, and you will have the number
of shingles it will take to cover both sides.
For instance. the roof of your barn or
building is 100 feet long and so feet wide
on either side, multiply the two together
and you have 5000 feet; then multiply
these by IA, and you have $4,000 square
inches as contained in one side of the
roof. Now cut off the right hand figure,
and you have 49, 200, and the number of
shingles required to cover both sides of the
roof.
FRIED BREAD PUDDING.-Take stale
loaf of bakers bread; cut in slices; beat up
six eggs, stir them into a quart of milk.
dip the slices into the milk and eggs; Law
them upon dish, one upon another, and .
let them stand about an hour; then fry
them to a light brown in little butter: