The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1889-08-03


on the Farm.-At the last meeting OF the
Deer Creek Farmers Club the subject for con-
sideration was "silos." None of the members
of the club have hadany experience in the con-
struction of silos or the using of ensilage, and
accordingly at the last meeting committee
consisting of Messrs. ID. c. Wharton Smith,
John Moores and James Lee, was appointed to
examine silos already in use and report to the
club their impressions concerning them.
Mr.. Smith said he had heretofore some
what confused idea of a silo, but had visited
the farm of Mr.. VIM. B. Harvey. prominent
member of the Guernsey Cattle Club, in Ches-
ter county, Pa, where he saw one i'll course OF
construction in the most approved style, based
upon practical experiments. The affair is very
simple and within the ability of and farmer.
He has two of them, along one side of his barn,
under the bridge way. One is Is by 16 feet in
size and 30 feet Deep and the other 10 by II feet
and 26 feet deep. Together they hold 26S tons
of ensilage. He then described the mode of
| building the silos and filling them
He said Mr.. Harvey planted IA acres of
| Blount's Prolific Corn, in rows feet inches
apart, the stalks averaging eight inches in the
rows. 1t is cut close to the ground with ma
chine, when in the roasting ear state. When
| taken out q system of boxes or troughs conveys
| it to the lower part of the barn for the cattle.
No cover is necessary except to keep out the
| rain.
Ensilage said Mr.. Smith, is very succulent
| and far better than roots. 1t is an economical
| I0cUHOu Oh uSlllS grass anu COTD NdUIle IdJtcl
| faster on it than ON anything else and cows
| yield more milk and larger percentage of
| solids than ON any other food. 1t is of advan-
tage to use with ensilage bran or cotton seed
meal, to obtain albuminoids. 1t must be "a
good thing or it would not be growing in pop
ularity as it is. In Wisconsin silos are deemed
! indispensable.
Mr.. Moores said he had visited two slos-
one at the Maryland Experimental Station and
the other on the farm of his neighbor, Mr.. J.
| T Mr. NJ coli
the ensilage caused a much greater yield of
milk than any other feed. He fills the silo,
which is twelve or fourteen feet square and
sixteen deep, in four or five days. and enough
One advantage of ensilage over fodder is that
cattle will eat the stalk when converted into
ensilage A dairy can not now be run sue
cessfully without ensilage. One acre of corn
converted into ensilage he considered worth
three acres in fodder. The corn should be cut
when the grains begin to glaze, at which time
it contains all the elements of nutrition it would
| have if allowed to ripen.
Thomas Lochary said all stock do better on
variety of food and ensilage, being. succulent
raise from Is to 20 barrels of corn and 300
bundles of fodder to the acre and save it in the
ordinary way he did not think anything could
be better or cheaper for our main feed.
VIM. Munnikuysen knew nothing Of silOs
from his own experience, but had read an ac-
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barn to introduce water by natural flow but
abandoning this ditch, for that purpose, cut it
out four feet wide. filledi with cobs and husks,
covered it with boards fastened up one end
with door, the other end being in hill, and
the ensilage kept perfectly. Ensilage is good
for milk cows, but with butter at 10 cents a
pound and no market for milk he doubted
whether it would pay:
John B. Wysong said ensilage is no longer a
mooted question as food for milk cows. He
| I - I'll, Il For aft haa
cattle unless mixed with bran or other dry feed
The number of silos is increasing rapidly and
no one who has tried one has given it up. The
first slos were built under ground, with stone
walls, the ensilage being tramped in and heav-
| ily weighed. Now they are built above ground.
| George r. Stephenson said he was interested
in-the QUESTION. The fact that so many dairy
men have sios and feed ensilage proves con-
clusively that it is an economical feed. Eng
| fish farmers gave attention to feeding cattle
before the Americans did and began feeding
| roots Experiments in SlloS were first conduct
| ed in France on strictly scientific principles
and it was proven that ensilage is a valuable
feed. The more succulent the food of cattle is
in winter the better results we will have. If
you can make more butter from ensilage you
can also make more fat. Ensilage is the most
economical way of preparing and curing feed.
| The matter is no longer an experiment.
Mr.. James B. Kenly described Mr.. Charles
A. McGaw's method of keeping his corn cobs
| ana hllSKS. Inoy were thrown lnUO gully OF
! low place through which the teams passed back
and forth between the fields and the canning
house. They became closely packed and in
the winter the top was thrown off and under
| meath was a succulent mass which all of his
| stock ate.
improvements at Pimlico-Preparing
for the Great September Show.-The Bal
| timore San says ''VisitOrs to Pimlico look
with surprise at the extensive building and
| ,o,,fc has
been sol long since any material alterations have
| been made at the course that those now going
on are all the more striking. The old open
stand has been removed beyond the pool shed
to place between the jockey clubhouse and
| the paddock adjoining the grand stand. Open
sheds will be built beyond the side formerly
occupied by the open stand. Some of the old
cattle sheds have been altered into regular box
stalls, and more of them for exhibition of stock
may be built The fencing between the rail
road track and stables in the rear of the grand
stand will be removed, so as to give ingress
| from the cattle sheds to the exhibition build
ings and the track. The fencing on both the
trotting and running tracks, bordering on the
road between the two, will be removed so as to
throw both courses into one during the fair
season.
1.-THE most noticeable improvement is the
new exhibition building, situated in the place
lately occupied by the open stand. 1t is an
immense structure, being 427 feet 3inches long
!
two stories high There are three towers on
the structure from the centre one of which an
! American flag is flying. The first floor will be
used for displays, and alrerdy exhibitors are
prospecting for sites. The sides of the struc-
ture are built with view to having every part
of it light, and glass will be used wherever
possible There are two large chimneys in the
structure, with open fireplaces on the lower
| floor.
foundations are being laid for the engines.
They are two of the Atlas make of 55-horse
power each. The centre shaft is 1916 inches,
which will make 200 revolutions per minute.
The boilers will be two vertical ones of 60-hOrse
power each. The boilers and engines will be
set and ready for work by September l. All
exhibitors using the steam power will have to
supply their own pulleys and counter shafts.
1.-The second floor will be utilized after the
exhibition is over as clubhouse for members
of the Maryland Agricultural Society, and will
be sub-divided into a kitchen, cafe, retiring
rooms. parlors reading-roOms, etc. During
the exhibition it will be utilized for exhibiting
purposes. In one section the Manuel Training
Schools exhibits will occupy space of 1000
square feet. About fiye-hundred boys will be
at work"
| Danger in Pig-Pens.-At the meeting of
the State Board of Health on Wednesday, DR..
G. w. Chancellor secretary. read his report
which pointed out many thinge that are in
| furious to health. Death turks in the foul pig
pen and on this subject the DR.. said:
"When we consider that the pen is usually
in the immediate neighbOrhood of dwelling
houses, we see that families must necessarily
be subjected to great annoyance where pigs
so when these are fed on household wastes
or the offal from slaughter-house. Notwith-
standing it may be considered harsh law
which would prevent poor person keeping a
pig, when he believes it to be profitable to him,
yet there are certain situations in which pigs
ought not to be kept at all, viz: First, adioin-
ing or near Westinghouse, for in such situa-
ton the windows cannot be opened without
however well it be kept second, Immediately
adjoining public road street or highway;
ut is a frequent question asked by those
who wish to conform to sanitary regulations ::
AT what distance from dwelling house they
may keep pig?' This would seem to depend
upon the state in which the sty is kept. If it
should be kept in filthy condition, it should
be, unhesitatingly, removed at least one mile