Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-28
The Agricultural Editor.

The Agricultural Editor.
Dyke Fortescue rambled into the
office of a rural newspaper published in
the interest of a small class of rural
yreaders and named the Farms Friend
and CuttiCatoTs' Champion. Dyke was
| fresh from Denver, where he had been
doing local work on daily. He wanted
! assitlation-he wanted it badly, and he
soon closed bargain with the proprie-
| tor of. the Farmers Friend and Cult
GATORS Champion. The proprietor in
| tended .to1be absent for two weeks, and
Dyke undertook to hold the Journal s
head steadily up stream until his re-
You will receive some visitors, quite
likely said the proprietor. Enter
! tain 'em. Entertain 'em in a manner
which will reflect credit upon the paper.
They will want to talk stock, farming,
| horticulture, etc, you know. Give it
to EN- strong" ~ ... ..-.-.
Dyke bowed, borrowed half-dollar,
got a clean shave and glass of beer,
and soon returned to face the music and
edit the first agricultural journal with
| which he had ever been connected.
Sc can feel that, with my journalistic
| experience, it will be just fun to run
an agricultural paper" said Dyke to
himself
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 al
appointment to discuss enslage.
50 am in oh 9rpa of tho - So;I
Dyke. -f .'f...--
90, you are. Well, you seem to HAYS
pretty clean Office here =
Eyes" replied Dyke. .'But about
this enslage. Ensilage is pretty good
breed, ism it?''
Breed"' exclaimed the farmer,
"why-'
81 mean its sure crop; something
that you can rely
Crop. Why it isn't crop at all"
Yes, yes, [ 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 good sharp ensilage
on stubby ground than"
"Take it for a sulky plow, do you?'
mo, no. said Dyke. you don't
seem to understand me. Now, if a
farmer builds an ensilage on low
ground 49,.
Builds an ensilage! You seem to
have got the thing mixed up with some
kind of a granary.
''Pshaw, no." continued Dyke. Il
must make myself palmer. You see,
this ensilage properly mixed with one
part guano and three parts of hypophos-
phate OF anthony, with the addition of
Il little bran and tan-bark, and the
whole favored with chloride of lime,
makes q top-dressing for strawberry
beds which ...E.t
- az Why, ensilage isn't no MANURE
''No. certainly not said Dyke. Il
know it is not often used in that way
You don t catch my drift. When | said
top-dresslng | meant turkey dressing
stuffing, you know-for Thanksgiv-
ing
''Great heavens, man! Ensilage is.l't
a human foodn'
mo, not human food exactly"
said poor Dyke, grinning like an aims
house idiot, lit isn't food at all, in tine
true sense of the word. Ny plan has
always been to lasso the hog with a
trace chain and after pinning his ears
back with a clothes pin, put the ensi-
lage into his nose with a pair of twees-
ers. 81. '-+ We Il
.My good lands! You don't use en-
silage to ring hogs
II never believed that it should be
used for that purpose, but when YOU, |
want to ring hens, or young calves to
keep them from sucking
The farmer gravely shook his head.
.'Did you ever try ensilage on the
hired girl" said Dyke, desperately, |
and winking like bat at 1870 a. m.
The farmer slowly arose. and with !
some evidence of rheumatic twinges in |
his legs.
young man." he said, solemnlv,
'syou are a long ways from home, amt
vou?" .s |
Yes" 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
go home, young man, go 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
'or family use in sifo, which is moth
ng less than an air-tight pit where corn
stalks. grass, millet, clover, alfalfa and
other green truck is preserved for win
.er use, as green and verdant as the
sub-editor of the Farmers Friend and
Champion" a .H' ''.'
And Dyke Fortescue. sighed as he re-
marked to himself: assTherc amt 80
planned much, fun in running an agri-
cultural paper as l thought. = Teas
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