Putnam patriot., 1919-07-25
LIQUID LIGHTNING
 HAS KICK OF MULE
Pomfret Farmeo Makes Great Discovery, and the Town
 Is Now Famous
Silo Sap Is Said to Slip Down With the Ease of a Dream Peach
 Sundae

Sundae
 Somebody is always taking the joy out of life Those poor prohibition ists don't any more than finish their job of smashing all the little brown jugs in existence and stop the making of all beverages possessing more strength than the kick of a cootie, when along comes some farmer up in Pomfret with a discovery that makes this old world look dark and dreary for the followers of Carrie Nation and her loyal band Ii Is "silo sap" and with it's appearance. according to the wise birds who profess to know 1t all, comes a danger stalking from the rear that threatens to overthrow the ranks of the white ribboners and the sobrietY of the nation
 Pomfret stands in position to be- come world famous, and this diseov- cry of the Yankee farmer may rank along with the discoveries of Thomas Edison, Jr., or Dr. Cook Already the press agents are on the job. and the name of our neighboring commu- nty is reaching the far corners of this land
 Witness the following. clipped from the columns of the Tampa, Fla, Tri- bune:
 A special dispatch to the New York Herald from Pomfret. Conn, the land of thrifty habits, not to say the in yentive Yankee, tells us that mot since silos were discovered have the farm hands of Niadham county been known to tackle the job of filling silos with such nerve and vigor, or pitch hay with such utter abandon and wild recklessness as this summer.
 There's reason It's tsilo sap"
 As all this was in contrast with re cent years when farm help in summer time was as plentiful as suowmen in hades, and remained on the job as long as d snowball stays in q brick kiln, the farmers did httle invest- gating, and, by heck, they soon dis covered the truth.
 Says the story: 'Pears as how these fool farm hands. foolish like fox. had gone to work and found that by tapping the bottom of the silos, where the winter supply of corn fod- der had been crushed you got plen- tiful supply of fermented extract that assayed about 99 99-t00 to the quart. the effect of which when sip ped, was like a mixture of extremely well-ereased lightning and the high est possible explosive, only more so.
 Sort of peculiar to the taste as it oozes from the silo floor,' says the re- port, but they do say that proper di- luton with water, wintergreen, or anything else except the stuff they put in sundaes. makes 1t glide down with farewell like a juicy peach and the huency of mug of obadildock- which latter. for the benefit of those who do not know it, has potency far in excess of 2.75 per cent.
 Back to the farm for usl Rah for the silo No wonder "bossy9 has a kick" And here's the reason why so many men are going into the dairy business who never drank a glass of milk without protest in their lifei
 Down in Manchester the other day Bartholdt Hoffman drank home made concoction that possessed the push of the rear hind legs of an army mule. IL had a bad effect. for Bar tholdt after slipping his refreshments. chased his family from the home, and began shooting up the town. Things soon began to look like Max Seanett comedy, only they were using real bullets When the home made brewer appeared before hizboaer he divulgel tre recipe he had use in making his as.led fireworks Here 1t is:
 half pint of ammonia
 ounces of peppermint
 ounces of horse hnament
 Jumps of sugar
 1 ounces of water
 Personally We prefer silo-sap. PUTNAM GOLFERS LOSE TO