The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-09-10


3elleview last Friday morning on
lis way to the Summerfield road to |
r1n some land lines for one of our
settlers.
Mr.. J. o. Hightower has just |
the building of and filling |
Of two large silos of modern design, |
and thru this coming winter when |
grazing is scarce, will feed his cattle
with canned corn. There is a little
jag hidden away in the recesses of
these silos if one only knows where
to look for it
Silo Jags Popular
An accidental discovery made re-
Gently by a Missouri agriculturist
is calculated to do more for the
fback-to-the-farm' movement than
anything that has happened in rural
life since some genius converted
barbed-wire fences into complete
telephone service, and put every gos-
sip-loving farmers wife on a party
wire.
This Missouri corn king, thru
one of those fortuities such as have
given to the world the telegraph and
gunpowder, and steam engines, and
other great inventions, fell into his
siIo while pottering around the barn
yard one afternoon, and before he
could scramble out had swallowed a
tremendous gulp of the liquid at the
bottom, which had been produced by.
the fermented ensilage.
inclined at first to rage, his sput-
tiers of distress were turned to ejac-
ultaions of delight, as there swept
over his entranced mind a realiza-
tion that he had discovered way to
beat the local option laws and the
city liquor man who sold him bot
tied prussic acid and prune juice with
deceptive label on it. The silo had
| been a still house, and he hadn't
known it.
| Quickly the news spread among
the aneighbors. 1t crossed Missouri
in a night, and swept Kansas like a
prairie fire. In couple of days it
was up i'm Iowa, and the news had
become the topic of conversation at
every crossroads. general store, in
Nebraska. In a week the Saturday
night importation of red eye" from
town" had fallen off so per cent. in
half a hundred counties in the corn
ibelt, and the st. Paul and Chicago
supply houses were deluged with or
ders for silos.
The agricultural department ex-
perts had been trying for years tic
induce the farmers of the West TIC
adopt the silo, and save 60 per cent
| of the food value in cornstalks
which now go to waste, and wher
Tama Jim Wilson heard the news
about the sudden demand for these
modern necessities of the farm he
prepared to get out a bulletin. Mean
while silo jags are spreading thru
red bandanna land like an epidemic
of mumps at a prep school, and
farmers are making ensilage now
Iwho used to pillow their cornstalks
under and buy feed for the stock
Great is science Washington Post
| Miss Emma Fielding arrived last
Wednesday from Dade City, where
she has been visiting with friends
and will visit for a while with hel
III, ii
ling.
Mrs. J. E. Murrey, of Gainesville
is in town visiting with her parents
IMr. and Mrs. W. n. Fielding.
Mr. Earle c. Davenport and Prof
A. B. Common were among the bust
ness visitors to Ocala last WEEK.
MIR. Tremere went to Ocala on the
Tuesday noon train for the purpose
of attending the lB. P. %. E. meeting
held that night.
Mr.. Leigh billiard, of Savannah
Ispent last Saturday, Sunday ant
/ Monday in town visiting with tn,
Tremere's.
IA man up in Georgia who feel
| deeply interested in the happening
of BeIleview, sends in the necessar.
| Iwherewith to entitle him to fifty
two installments of the Weekly Star
!! Please see that he receives then
promptly.
Mr.. and Mrs. /. /. Strong spent tn
week end in lBelleview visiting wit
Mr.. and Mrs. I. N Nichols.
Mrs. Helen c. Northery of Jack
isonyille is visiting with her daugh
tier, Mrs. ". ID. Pratt.
Mr.. John Lyles, of Dunnellon