Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-25

Ira and Professor Rockett will prompt. The grand march is at 9:S0. The programme for the concert will be as follows: in Clover Orchestra Opening remarks A: D. MoulIon sana ssass5ie1o solo. 1 Mrs qlsH qMSsfsse Mouftoe songITrue Til Death Miss Lizzie Mitchell song. aIo uue.. Mrs. B. }. Brown 5one@Broken wa,sn Pitcher Miss Lizzie Ldde Selections ons............-...-..El Elm City quartette
 STATE CORRESPONDENCE.
 Woodbridge.
 April 24-There was large audience at the Congregational church last Sabbath even ing when fine Easter concert was rendered. The church had been decorated with flowers for the occasion. The concert itself was @ good one and had been prepared for the oc- casion and consieted of readings, recitations and responses appropriate for the Easter fes- tival.
 The Gun club held shoot on the grounds of the club on Fast day. Mir. Charles Kunz made the highest score.
 MT. William Judson will occupy MT. w. M. Beecher's house this season.
 GuiIford.
 April 24.-Churches of all denominations were appropriately adorned with flowers and Easter services held in them last Sunday.
 At the annual meeting of Christ church parish held last Monday evening the follow ing officers were elected: Wardens, George B. Spencer, William Skinner; vestrymen, N. L. Stone Edgar G. Davis, George s. Davis, Edson S. Bishop, s. M. Cornell, John s. Elliott clerk, H. W. Spencer treasurer; dele gates to the diocesan convention, D. N. Ben ton and s. R. Elliott, with power to name alternates.
 North Haven.
 April 24.-At the grange on Tuesday eve- ming further arrangements to perfect the celebration of Arbor day were made. The grange is to hold an open meeting in Me- morial hall and all friends of that organiza- tion are cordially invited to be present at s o'clock in the evening of Friday, April 26, where it is hoped they will see and hear something to interest them. A cheerful solo was given by Miss Mattie Culver, assist ed by s. A. Smith and Mrs. T. Eaton; imme- diately after which was recited an appropr1- ate verse from Longfellow. "God sent bis singers upon the earth, with songs of glad- hearts of men and bring them back to heaven again." Representative T. Eaton was suffer- ing with cold which prevented the rendering of the character song and the place was sup- piled by Mrs. H. F. Smith who seems to be always prepared for emergencies. She sang
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 Arthur Blakeslse, by request, repeated reading given in the grange some time since. Miss Stella Jones gave good reading, Turning over a new leaf" All members of the grange who have plants and flowers are kindly asked to contribute towards dec- orating the hall on Friday evening. Potted plants will be very acceptable.
 Southlngton.
 April 24.-Mr Warren Tucker, who has been 8 foreman in the screw shop since it's has purchased bakery busi ness in Whitingville, Mass, and will re- move there with his family.
 Mr. Julius Brockert, for some time past carriage maker for T. B. Robinson, has re- moved to New Haven with his family.
 An infant son of MT. William Nagle died on Tuesday morning.
 Mrs. Nellie Mansfield has gone to Bristol to act as nurse.
 Rules for EnsIlage.
 From the Country Gentleman.1
 As many farmers are now preparing to build slices, we offer the following sugges. tions:
 Q.) Slices should be made deep or high when practicable, so that the ensilage itself may exert greater pressure on all below.
 (2.) The bottom should be on a level with the stable floor, so as to admit of easier feeding.
 (3.) It may be filled in at the top, either by means of carrier driven by the machine in cutting or on an elevated bridge or cause way.
 (4.) If the silo stands on a steep hillside, an earth road may be made to carry up the loads of stalks to the cutter and silo.
 (5.) The silo may be constructed of timber and plank, and, while it lasts, will be as good as when built of costly masonry.
 (6) Good walls may be made of boards or blanks, nailed on the two sides of stiff timber frame forming an air space lined with tarrsd building paper, to make it air tight and prevent freezing much.
 CD If the blanks are well soaked with pe- portion next to the earth may be treated with gas tar, or 1t may be of masonry.
 (S.l A plank door, capable of being strong ly barred, should open next to the passage towards the stable.
 (9.) If the walls are fairly even, it will make no difference in the settling of the ensilage whether the blanks are set upright or horizontal
 Q0) The bottom or floor should have per feet drainage.
 Q1.) Slices of moderate size, or larger ones with divisions, are more convenient for filling and emptying, provided the cutter can be easily placed to feed all.
 (12.) After filling the silo, during success sive days, the contents will settle in the course of a week or two to about two thirds of their former bulk.
 (t3.) Ensilage, after settling, will weigh about forty five pounds to the cubic foot if cut short and weighed heavily, but will be less in weight at the top If cut longer and not weighed.
 (14.) A ton of good ensilage contains no moro nutriment than an equal amount of well dried and cut eonstalks, but it is liked better by cattle and is better assimilsted, di- gested, and goes further than the dry fodder.
 (15.) It has nearly the same advantages as green food given in summer.
 C16) Two modes are adopted in raising the in thick drills, and thus ob- taining the heaviest crop, with no grain; or thinner, and obtaining fewer stalks, with some corn.
 Q7) The grain obviatss feeding dry meal with the ensilage, and Is believed by many to be more profitable than the heavier thick crop requiring meal.
 QS.) The best ensilage is obtained by al lowing the stalks to ripen enough to let the grain glaze and the leaves to dry on their edges. Failure results when cutting too green.
 Q9) From four to six inches apart in the row is suitable distance for the stalks; small corn and sweet corn nearer than large southern corn.
 (20) The amount of fodder which may be grown on an acre depends chiefy on the of the soil. Common or good grow ing northern corn, planted thicker than large southern, will yield from fifteen to twenty tons of green stalks to ths acre on rich land. Large corn will yield rather more in stalks but less in grain.
 (21.) Cutting the fodder half an inch in length admits closer packing in the silo, and prevents the making of long 6brous manure. If three or four inches, it is better than the whole length.
 (22) Thoroughly tramp around the edges of the silo in filling; the central portion will become solid without much tramping.
 (23) Weighing the silo packs the top layer