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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-08
A Plot Incubator.

When Prof. Hogginson resigned
his position as demonstrator of anatomy
and started the Chackie, a humorous
weekly, his friends came around and
said that bright future awaited him.
This was partly fact, for if he had
any bright future at all it was awaiting
him. One day, while the learned
humorst was bowed down with the
cares of wit, much worn man entered
the room and cleared his throat to at
tract attention. The professor looked
up, turned his chair and said:
"Well, what can do for youp"
The gentleman seated himself and
replied: information having reached
me that you had started humorous
and literary paper, am here to see if
you do not care for plot incubator I"
"A plot incubator" exclaimed the
professor, in surprise. Il never heard
of such thing"
ooh, probably not, for you are young
in the business. I'll explain. A plot
incubator is a man who matches out
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-08

red bore witness to a promfscuous api
plication on brow and nose and chin!
while the white produced an equally
startling effect on the round, usually
red cheeks. Was it Tif's fault that
mammals ideas suddenly became con-
fused by the sudden appearance of her
four-year-old daughter in this guse?
Was not Tiff "drowed up'P
Poor Tiff! would the day never end
that had seemed to go so wrongly? The
day she had asked so eagerly aboutp
That had been "day-after to morrow"
then tomorrow" and at last this Bit
ter to-day?
When the twilight shadows fell there
was sad little face at mammals knee
quavering little voice faltering out
the "Now l lay me down to Sleep"
while the child's heart was aching over
the first disGppointments of grown
up" eXistence-only happier than the
real grown people, in that ali would be
easily forgotten in happier tomorrow.
-Edth q. IViHanS, la NJ Y. ETam-
iHer.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-08
Dastardly Attempt to Murder an Aged
Couple.

PARKER, ID t., March l.
Officers are searching for Matt Miller,
who attempted to murder an aged
couple to secure their money. He in
duced the old gentleman and his wife to
sell their farm in Woodbury. County, Ia,
and come with him to Dakota, represent
Ing that he owned farm that they could
work. They bought two teams, took the
rest of their money, and all three started
for the Territory. Arriving at Finlay
last night at midnight, he induced them
to go to an old house which had
stood vacant for long time, telling
them they could stay in it all night and in
the morning go to his farm. Miller
alighted from the wagon, and as the old
gentleman got out Miller dealt him a
heavy blow on the head with a club. A
souabble ensued, during which Miller
procured an AK and attacked the old man,
knocking him senseless, and then attacked
the woman, knocking her down. He did
not get any money, but turned to run
away lust as the old woman was recover
ing. She soon found her husband, who
was also recovering his senses, and the
two went to another house, over mile
away, giving the alarm to the neighbors,
who Immediately came to the place and
notified the sheriff The old couple are
terribly wounded, but will probably re-
cover,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-08
A FREAK OF FORTUNE.
an italian Peanut Peddler Succeeds to the
Title and Estates of n Bachelor Uncle in
Italy and Becomes a Count.

an italian Peanut Peddler Succeeds to the
Title and Estates of n Bachelor Uncle in
Italy and Becomes Count.
RANDOLPH, MASS, March l.
Dickey Peanut,an Italian peanut rooster,
whom everybody here knows and likes,
learned yesterday that he is heir to the title
of Count and to large fortune in sunny
Italy. He had never heard of his bache-
lor uncle, whose recent death brings him
good fortune, till the Italian Consul
hunted him up. Dickey, whose real
name is Jaetacon Bacigalupo, was an in
FAINT and an orphan when he landed in
America, twenty-three years ago, his
father, Antius Totilia, the poor second
son of a noble family of Northern Italy,
and his mother having both died on the
the passage over. The poor little waif
was adopted by an Italian, to whose busi-
ness he succeeded three years ago. Count
Dickey, as his friends already call him, is
u ssurdy, broad-shouldered good-natured
fellow, and has pretty little wife and
two small children. He will go at once
to Italy to take possession of his ances-
trail estates.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-08
The Lasker Resolutions in Congress.

WASHINGTON, D. O., March l.
The feeling over the Lasker matter is
not as quiescent as might be inferred from
the rather temperate speeches OF Thursday.
1t is the general impression that when the
resolutions are in the possession OF the
House it will be the signal for some hot
speeches. Colonel Tom Ochlltree viii
open the ball in his most lurid vein, ana
number of members are known to be
heavily loaded on the same subject. Much
will depend upon the terms in when BIS
marck's refusal is couched, but 1t Is adj
united on all sides that the matter Is ike
Nv to assume serious turn. Ihat Ihe
House of Representatives will resent what
is deemed an insult by formal resolutions
of some sort there is very little doubt.
The German vote is very large, and TINS
Lasker resolution is to stand as campaign
ammunition for a long time to come. Inc
probability is that when it gets larry De-
fore the House there will be enough cleo
pioneering music to fully satisfy the Ger
man element. This may, it Is feared,
even 90 to the extent of demanding Min
lister Sargent's recall, and further compil-
cate matters between this aud the Ger
man Government.
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StratHOrd- ubOn.AvOn.

One OF the chief charms of STRAIT
ford is that it is not, in the ordinary
sense of the word, q show place. The
guide. that &lkcepiike creation of
modern civilizatioraand modern travel,
the dark Erect whd plaques the wan
derer abroad, has, hhppily, no existence
here in Shakespeare town. The
visitor may go as hel pleases where he
pleaseS; no one Will trouble him with
importunate offers tb show this or to
lead to that. Left thus delightfully."- to
himself, the visitor is sure to do as /
Inquire the way to the house
where shakespeare was born and
make for it at once1 1t is only few
minutes walk-ev ery place in STRAIT
ford is only a few minutes walk from
every other place-+in a street winding
away from the high street. The house
is recognized the moment it comes in
sight. Every ono has seen pictures of
the building, but recollections of these
pictures would be of little assistance
were assistance needed in prompting
the memory novl for all of them, all
at least that | han seen, were executed
in days when Shakespeare birth
place wore very different appearance.
The prints l was familiar with depicted
somewhat tumble down, weather.
worn edifice, one of row of like
tumble-down, weather-worn edifices,
with the highway running up to its
very walls, and having two boards
thrust out from the front to meet at
an angle and inform those going
by in either direction that beneath
that modest roof Shakespeare first saw
the light. The place has changed since
those days. The old houses that had
been its neighbOrs and companions for
! generations, that had shouldered up
against it and leaned on it through ever
so many SUGGESTIONS of the seasons, have
all been bought, pulled down, and their
| fragments carried away. The risk of
| their fellowship was too great; a spark
| from the pipe of some honest cobbler, a
match still smoldering as it dropped
from the hands of the grocer's girl, and
Shakespeare's birthplace might have
been dispersed to the four winds as so
much smoke and the ashes of so much
charred wood and blackened masonry.
So grocer's shop and cobbler's booth
have vanished, and in their place a
neat garden surrounds the house and a
! tiIIH l"iilIlS WaruS IL on from lile en-
croachment of the sidewalk. The house
thus isolated from danger has been in
some measure ''done up" spruced into
wearing certain whimsical air OF
luvenility at pains which might, per-
haps, have been spared. The pair OF
projecting boards with their legend
have disappeared. and the only visible
assurance to the beholder that he is
really standing before the place he has
come to seek is small placard at the
side of the door, which informs the
world that the ringing of bell will
summon custodian who will show
strangers the house for sixpence head
with an extra sixpence for the curious
who wish to see the museum. bel
gracia.
The milk of human kindness is new
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-08
Youths Department.
TO-DAY AND TOMORROW.

Don't tell me of tomorrow;
Give me the boy who'll say,
That, when q good deeds to be done,
Lets do the deed to-day.
We may all command the present,
If we act and never wait;
But repentance is the phantom
OF n past that comes too late.
Don't tell me of tomorrow;
There is much to do to-day
That can never be accomplished
If we throw the hours away.
Every moment has its duty;
Who the future can foretell2
Then why put of till tomorrow
What to-day can do us well?
Don't tell me of tomorrow;
If we look upon the past,
How much we have left to do
We can not do at last
To-day it is the only time
For all on this frail earth:
1t takes an age to form life,
a moment gives it birth.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-08

The milk of human kindness is new.
Ell diluted. N. Y. Mail.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-10-01
Montreal Horticultural Fair.

For the fifth time in six years we have
attended this exhibition, and each time
with renewed pleasure and profit. We
earnestly advise those fruit-growers of
Vermont who feel the need of a pomo-
logical and horticultural organization,
to avail themselves, at least temporarily,
of this excellent and well-established
society. We do not know whether it
admits members from the United States,
but at any rate its exhibitions can be
attended, and its reports purchased at a
low price. We have full set of the
latter which have been of great advan-
tage to us, and are constantly used for
reference. The recent exhibition (held
in tents in an open lot on the corner
of St. Catherine and Commissioners
streets) was fully up to previous ones,
and in some respects the best of all.
There was an extraordinary display of
apples, including four fine county col
lections, and many fine special exhibits.
There was a good display of choie veg
etables, and the towering and ornamen-
tai plants, cut-howers and bouquets,
made show long to be remembered.
To the indefatigable and accomplished
secretary, Henry S. Evans, Esq, we
are under many obligations for kind
nersOnal attentions that cannot soon he
forgotten.
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agricultural.
=. H. HosKlNs, Newport, w., Editor.
The Vermont State Fair.

The fair at Burlington was well at
tended. and no doubt financially sue
cessful. 1t has always been decently
conducted and well managed, after the
manner of such exhibitions generally,
but in some respects it is not what the
better class of farmers in the state
would like to see. This is especially
the case in regard to the horse-racing,
which is becoming more and more a
conspicuous and leading element, bring
ing about it the usual train of thieves,
swindlers and other kinds of jail-birds
and Intermediates, which is insepara-
BILE from that sort of thing. We did
not attend, because we were better oc-
cupied in attending the clean and beau
tiful fair of the Montreal Horticultural
Society, and in visit to the fruit-grow-
ers of Grand Isle. But being on the
west side of the state at the time, we
heard among the farmers the usual
complaints of the sacrifice of every
other interest to the horse-trot. We
believe that the law should put an end
to these demoralizing exhibitions, but
have little expectation that it will.
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selves aloof and leave the work for the
few, and most of whom are in their in
fancy, so far as pushing the work is
concerned. | joined the grange here at
its organization, and have received
much benefit thereby, and have en-
deavored to do my part to stir up our
farmers and get them to thinking and
out of the old ruts. Upon looking over
my papers, I find the most important
one which l wished to send you miss
ing. 1t was on Education and
written by young lady of the grange.
I had designed sending abstracts of
these papers to the Patrons Rural, but
have found no time to properly prepare
them. l could give you much more in
detail of our experiments with fertil
izers, ETC., but fear / have already writ
ten enough to weary your patience.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-10-01
The Manchester Fair.

The fair of the New Hampshire Ag-
ricultural Society, in association with
the New England" Agricultural So
ciety, at Manchester, n. H., what with
uninterrupted good weather and the
visit and speech of Mr.. Blaine, was
pecuniary success. We did not attend
it, but the editor of the Maine Farmer,
who did, says: "No selling of intoXi-
eating liquors was allowed on the
grounds, and with this went that pande-
monium of uncalled-for and unbearable
noises, shouts and side-show music, so
called, which so disgusts every decent
person who goes to a fair for legiti-
mate purpose. All of this was not ban
ished, but it was so creditably toned
down that it was not seriously offensive,
Perhaps this improved condition should
be credited to the management of this
year, yet that credit is in measure mod
flied when it is considered that an Of
Tended public sentiment demanded that
the errors of last year should not be re-
peated. A New England fair should
by all means be representative of that
high moral tone which pervades New
England society,"" The editor of the
Ne,o England Farmer says of it: "Tak-
ing retrospective view, / should say
that the attendance was made up less
from the farmers outside of New Hamp-
shire than was the case last year and
former years generally" The Mirror
and Farmer of Manchester claims for
the fair a triumphant success, and says:
"Never in the history of New Hamp-
shire turf performances have there been
three days of more exciting trotting
than has been afforded at the late New
England fair" 1t adds, however, that
the most surprising thing about the
sheep show is that right here in the CEN
ter of New England the wool-growing
interest should be so much neglected
that not Merino sheep is on exhibit
ton" The Homestead says: Liquor
selling and side-shows are curse to ag-
ricultural fairs. The alleged New Eng
land Society, which this year had such
fine opportunity to distinguish itself
by leading off in a reform in this matter
permitted its fair to be again disgraced
by these baneful accompaniment. Let
no other fair follow this shameless eX.
ample. There may be two sides to the
horse-trotting question, though we dom
believe trotting essential to the success
of any live fair. But there is only ont
side to the matter of liquor-selling
gambling and side-shows. They ar,
utterly wrong, entirely unnecessary anC
absolutely out of place at an agricul
tural fair. Let them be ineXorabl,
abolished"
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Enquiries About Ensilage.

F. a. Chenoweth, Kings Valley, Ben
ton Co., Oregon, writes: :" We in Ore
gon make almost everything out of
wood and build above ground. Now
can corn stalks be saved in wooden
box, water tight, and if so, how do you
put them up? Do you put the whole
stalks in, or is it necessary to chop it
up fine, or otherwise, and at what stage
of the corn should the stalks be cut 20
REPLY BY AGRICULTURAL EDITOR.
1t would never be necessary to build
silos below ground in a country of mild
winters, like Oregon. In France, with
somewhat similar climate, they are
built above ground of brick, in sets of
two, three, or more, in blocks like
houses, but open at the top, with shed
protection over the whole. They are
finished with round corners on the in
side, and plastered smoothly and evenly
with cement, having doors at one end
which close flush with the inside, and
| are used for the removal of the silage
| when fed The stalks are cut into bits,
| one-fOurth to one-half of an inch long,
by suitable horse or steam power cut
ter, and carried by an elevating arrange
ment attached to the cutter up over the
wall into the silo, where they are
spread evenly, and trod firmly all over,
and especially at the sides and corners.
The original process was to cover the
ensilage with heavy planks as soon as
the silo was filed, and weight the
planks with stones, timber, or sand in
boxes or bags, at the rate of two hun
bred to three hundred pounds to the
to have shown that it is better to fill
more slowly, and allow a certain degree
of heating (about one hundred and
forty degrees) before the pressure is
applied, as this destroys all germs OF
decay, and gives sweet silage, instead
of the acid product which results from
immediate compression. When this i,
done, only about half as much weigh
is necessary, as the silage settles a gooC
! deal, and for this reason also large
quantity can be got into the silo.
Similar structures can be made o
? timber and planks, strongly framed
5 and double boarded inside with matche,
e stuff, having stout paper between, tn
+ object being to have the silo alright
/ both sides and bottom. These are no
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-10-01

so durable, of course, as brick or stone
silos, and from imperfections in build
ing do not always preserve the silage
as well. The custom Is to build all
silos from twelve to twenty feet deep,
ten to fifteen feet wide, and as long as
may be convenient. They furnish ex-
cellent feed for horned stock and sheep,
but good ration of grain should be fed
with it, not corn, but oats, barley or
mill feed. The corn should be cut
when the grain is in the milk, and
should not be planted too thick to
make ears, though thicker than for
grain. Tall, stout, growing kinds are
preferred. Some have experimental
with stalks packed into the silo whole,
and report more or less good success.
But as it has to be cut by hand in TAX
ing it out, and cannot be so closely
packed, we believe that it should be cut
with machine at first. We may add
that silos are sometimes built of con-
crete instead of brick, and these, if
well built, are equally good and dura-
BILE. But they should be cemented out
side as well as inside when made of
this material. 1t is well to have the
top of the wall COPIED with stone in both
cases. If the silos are placed on a
basement floor, the cutter may be set
on the floor above and the cut stalks
dropped directly into each silo.
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five years; quality of land clay loan.
This field joins field No. 2, and was
plowed in the fall of 1882, and fallowed
during the entire summer of 1888, and
in the fall, October 10Th to 10th, instead
of bone and potash an average of six
hundred and fifty-seven pounds of SUI
perphosphate per acre was applied for
fertilizer as trial test Seed was
sown the 18th and Sth of May last, at
the rate of twenty-five acres the first
day and thirty-three acres the second !,
with Cahoon broadcast seed-sower. 1t
was narrowed in with Corbin harrows
and Thomas smoothing harrow, but
owing to the exceedingly wet weather
through May, the remainder of the land
was sown at odd times. The Corbin har-
row was found of great value. BY its
lever adjustment wet spots in the field
could be run over without cutting up
their surface--in fact nearly the entire
field appears to be too wet to handle
without injury to the soil. But the har-
rowed surface would be well ready for
the smoother after being exposed to the
wind and sun few hours. When seed
was sown on this sixty acres the land
was our debtor to $2,142.70, as follows:
For land, $774.00; for superphosphate
$1,000; for labor, seed, clearing land
draining, etc, S65S.00; total, 81, 142.70
Credit: August, 1888, by crop of twenty
one hundred bushels of oats, fifty cents
81 $50; the straw from crop will pay fol
harvesting. 1t will be noticed that from
our crop this year we have a good
money dividend in spite of the fall APP
plication of superphosphate and the
very unfavorable conditions for seeding
in the spring.
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The Grange on an Experiment
Station.

Secretary George Crane of the State
Grange of Vermont kindly sends us a
copy of the journal of proceedings of
the last meeting of that body, with the
following resolution marked:
Whereas, 1t is deemed necessary,
in order to advance the interests of ag-
ricuture in the State of Vermont, to
establish an experimental station; there
fore, Resolred, That the secretary of
the Vermont State Grange procure
blank petitions with a proper heading
for the establishing of such expert
mental station in the State of Vermont
and such petitions be forwarded to the
masters of subordinate oranges, for cir.
culatiOn, and presented to the legisla-
ture, through their town representative
at the next session."
This resolution, which was proposed
by G.. w. Sargent of Brattleboro, was
adopted, and now we trust that the sec
rotary is attending to his duty as therein
laid down, and that he will strongly
urge upon the officers of the subordi
nate oranges the Importance of getting
these petitions signed, not only by
members of the oranges, but by al
farmers who believe in progressive ag
riculture. There is any quantity o
work waiting for the experiment sta
tons to do, and every new one that il
established and entrusted to competen
management aids in the work, and add
to the practical advantages to accrue
from them all. The reports of such {
station will record not only its OWL
work, but give an account of the results
worked out at all the other stations, ant
these reports, freely distributed to thu
farmers of the state, will be mine o
the best and most needed information
attainable by the practical farmer in hi
daily avocations.
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"This field of twenty acres dressed
the same as field No. |, excepting with
less expense per acre for fertilizers, or
six hundred pounds of bone meal, six
bushels ashes and six hundred pounds
of superphosphate per acre in two years,
yielded in two years twenty-one hun
dred bushels of oats and forty-eight tons
of straw, or eighty-nine per cent of
cost of land, fertilizer and labor. Add
to this the present value of the land,
$50 per acre, twenty acres, 5000, and we
have a profit of S4G2. 80 for an invest
ment of 81 ,240 in two years. Taking
out cost of land and labor, as is usually
done in ordinary barn-dressing farming,
and we would have dividend of one
hundred and nine per cent in two years.
But we do not believe in this way of
reckoning profits in farming. Field
No 2 far exceeded field No. | in its
money dividend for two years by the
same process of dressing, owing per-
haps to cropping it from oats instead of
from hay
In 1882 field No. 3 of sixty acres was
purchased At the time of purchase it
had been cropped from hay for thirty