New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-24
THE SWELL or ENSIL1GE.


that the uncommon anxiety evinced by ITS most
ardent champions this side the Atlantic 10 built
on q strictly business basis. So when we see yo-
ciferous individual trying to win his way to bucolic
confidence in behalf of the system, 1t Is hardly
unjust to conclude that he is somehow Interested
In IA slo- screw. q mincing-machine. variety of
Indian corn Cf alleged amazing altitude. The OK
tfavagant claims made for the systou-from the flc
titious crop Of fftyeight tons OF maizo per acre
to the equally ethereal percentage of cattle susie
nance IN the same sauerkrauted-have had the nat
ura effect of bringing undeserved discredit IN some
quarters on the imported French and German PROM
sing process of pitting green feed for Winter Per-
sons sith plough points ensiage-knives to grind
or seed to SELL have for three years. romanced
ia agricultural journals In seductive pamphlets, and
even TO the extent of mucb-attenuated volumes, and
twelve months ago they held in this city an Ensl-
lage Congress"-at which, by the bye, no reference
was made to the denuded apple trceS and under
0rush of one OF it's members barked and browsed
10y lean kline partially supplied with ensilage from
mills that ground too slowly. The Congress bust
ness under the same auspices is TO DO continued
to-day at the old stand and 1t remains to be seen
whether the managers will again give critical
public occasion to suspect them Of having been IN
duly influenced by alcoholic fumes from somo new
ly-Opened silo.
In special letter printed on another page of this
Impression the judicious DIR. Caldwell touches, we
venture to say, the subsoil OF the subject more
effectively than will any of the ploughmen at the
Congress, however much they may tondy think
they do 1t brown" Our honored correspondent,
whuse carefulness is as noteworthy as his scientific
culture while properly admitting the force of the
many ensilage experiments In various parts of the
Eastern ana Middle States, briefly hints at the uu-
warranted claims set forth for the system by inter
ested persons, and presents in admirable form re-
sumo of the pros and cons, to which we confidently
invite attention OF all concerned One thing is GER
tamil anybody wants ensaRe he must pay the
rrice of it II; there is no known alchemy here by
which a quart of carbohydrates can be eyoluted
from pint of jug, there spontaneous genera
ton of nutrients In the dark depths OF the hole in
the ground we shall not get out of it moro than we
put in and very likely good deal less-at any rate
so thinks 80 eminent IN authority In such matters
as Sir j. b. Lawes himself. Therefore IL the self
appointed professional slolsts would suiier from
US a wel-lneant word of eXhortatlon we would
modestly venture to advise that before going into
convention this morning they tap their statistics
figures painfully inflated with clover bloat, that
after getting in they modify their transports, and
that certainly they repress the shr clarion of the
peryasive and too previous chandeliers which,
perched on tho most conspicuous enslogt-cutter IN
the foreground, have all seasons for their crows
And il there should chance to be seated on an en-
sagc plough in the rear of the audience real
country farmer who. hesitatng about the pIopriety
of running silo into his barn-embankment has Gull
etly dropped in foI farther information mot inham
mation) he will certainly be able to temper with
judgment the nipping wind of favor that blows
from the front seats For MS knowledge OF agricul-
tLral yerities has taken him out of the realm of
those who wish to think they see. formed from the
pungent exhaatons OF the picked fodder, an su-
riferous rainbow with easily accessible enls surely
resting IN buried pots of gold. And very likely our
country farmer may return home at night and, lirg
the hangers of his waiting cattle from aud root
bin decide to follow the safe example OF the thrifty
and cautious Tor thrifty because cautious) Shaker
farmers, who IN reference to tho sllo are said to
have resolved to wait aud Sec" mean lille supple
mentng the cid time fragrant hay made In June sun
shine with the more modern aids OF mangels millet,
sorghum and we'll cured maize On the other hand.
the amateur husbandman who creduousy adopts
the dictum of the leaders with rash haste, may
come TO have IN due course Of time "a sympathetic
fellow feeling with the late Boss Mormon, Of whom
It was admitted at last that no loved not wisely
but two hundred we'll.