The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-06-21
The Agricultural Editor.


fee of rural newspaper published in
ers, and named The Farmers Friend
and Cultiuators' Champion. Dyke was
fresh from Denver, where he had been
doing local work on daily. He want
ed situation-he wanted it badly, and
he soon closed a bargain with the pro-
prietor of The Farmers Friend and
CuJtiuator's Champion. The proprie-
tor intended to be absent for two
weeks and Dyke undertook to hold the
journals head steadily up stream until
his return
''1ou will receive some visitors. quite
likely" said the proprietor. Entertain
'e,n. Entertain 'em in manner which
will reflect credit on the paper. They
will want to talk stock, farming, horti-
culture, ETC., to you. Give it to EN-
strong"
Dyke bowed, borrowed half dollar,
got clean shave, glass of beer, and
soon returned to face the music and edit
the first agricultural journal with which
he had ever been connected.
II can feel that, with my journalistic
experience, it will be just fun to run an
agricultural paper said Dyke to him.
self.
At two o'clock p. m. the first visitor
showed up at the door of the Office,
and Dyke cordially invited him inside.
The farmer entered hesitatingly and re-
marked that he had expected to meet the
proprietor, with whom he had an ap-
pointment to discuss ensilage.
81 am in charge of the Journal" said
Dyke.
go, you are. Well, you seem to have
a pretty clean Office here"
Yes" replied Dyke. ''But about this
ensilage. Ensilage is pretty good
breed, isn't it?"
tBreedn' exclaimed the farmer, ''why
81 nean its sure crop; something
tnat you can rely"
"Crop! Why it isn't crop at all"
Eyes, yes, l know it isn't CROP" said
Dyke perspiring until his collar began to
melt away down the back of his neck,
''but you can do better and cleaner work
with a good sharp ensilage on stubby
ground, than"
take it for a sulky pillow. do you?"
no, no." said Dyke. You don't
seem to understand me. Now, If a
farmer builds an ensilage on low ground
=,
Builds an ensilage! You seem to have
got the thing mixed up with some kind
of granary."
"Pshaw, no." continued Dyke 81
must make myself plaiher. You see
this ensilage properly mixed with one
mart of orllano and thraa r,artS hxr,,onhnc.
phate of antimony, with the addition OF
little bran and tan bark and the whole
favored with chloride of lime, makes
a top dressing for strawberry beds which
-,
"Why, ensilage isn't no manure"
'No, certainly not" said Dyke. 81
know it is not often used in that way.
You don't catch my drift When ]
said top dressing / meant turkey dress
ing-stutfing. you know-for Thanks
giving"
"Great Heavens, man! Ensilage ISM
human foodr'
"No, not human food exactly" said
poor Dyke, grinning like an aims house
idiot, sit isn't food at all, in the true
sense of the word. My plan has always
been to lasso the hog with trace
chain and after pinning lis ears back
with clothes pin, put the ensilage in
to his nose with pair of tweezers."
''My good lands! You don't use ensil.
age to ring hogs
II never believed myself that it should
be used for that purpose, but when you
want to ring hens, or young calves tc
keep them from sucking"
The farmer graveE shook his head.
"Did you ever try ensilage ON The
hired girl" said Dyke desperately, and
winking like bat at II 80 a. m.
The farmer slowly arose and with
some evidence of rheumatic twinges in
his legs.
young man. he said solemnly,
''you are a long ways from home, amt
you?"
Eyes" replied Dyke, dropping his eyes
beneath the stern chances of the farmer.
In my ancestral halls in England, sad
eyed retainers YEARLY watch and wait
for my return"
$50 home, young man, 90 home to
your feudal castle, and while on your
way across the rolling deep, muse on
the fact that ensilage is simply canned
food for live stock-put up expressly
for family use in silo, which is moth
ing less than an air-tight pit where
corn stalks, grass, millet, clover, alfal-
ia and other green truck is preserved
for winter use, as green and verdant as
the sub-editor of The Farmers Friend
and CultiUGtors' Champion. ~
And Dyke Fortescue sighed as he re-
marked to himself: There amt go
blamed much fun in running an agri-
cultural paper as | thought. TEXAS
SiftinQS.