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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
June”  25 
The  Mortgage  Can  Be  Lifted. 
Edward  F.  Dibble,  President  New 
York  Farmers’  Alliance. — The  propo¬ 
sition  printed  on  page  345  seems  to  be  a 
fair  one  ;  in  fact,  it  would  be  a  very  wise 
thing  for  the  holder  of  the  mortgage  to 
enter  into  such  a  contract.  In  the  first 
place,  he  has  a  deed  of  the  land  and  it  is 
stated  that  it  would  not  sell  for  more 
than  the  mortgage  with  the  accrued  in¬ 
terest.  Then  the  land  is  not  worth  over 
$800  with  50  acres  under  cultivation. 
Now  this  young  farmer  agrees  to  increase 
the  area  under  cultivation  to  125  acres 
during  the  next  three  years  and  it  cer¬ 
tainly  ought  to  be  worth  $1,200  by  that 
time,  whether  the  young  farmer  buys  it 
or  not.  That  $400  increase  in  value 
would  be  much  greater  than  the  present 
rate  of  11  per  cent  upon  the  present 
valuation  of  $800 — a  good  thing  surely 
for  the  mortgagee,  and  he  should  need  no 
law  to  compel  him  to  accept  such  a  mani¬ 
festly  fair  proposition.  I  must  decline  to 
give  my  opinion  as  to  the  best  wray  to 
relieve  mortgaged  farms,  as  I  have  had 
no  experience  in  that  line,  although  I 
firmly  believe  that  if  the  reasonable  de¬ 
mands  of  the  Farmers’  Alliance  were  in 
operation  and  strictly  enforced,  farming 
would  be  far  more  prosperous  as  a  busi¬ 
ness  than  it  is  at  the  present  time. 
Legislation,  however,  will  never  in  it¬ 
self  pay  the  mortgage  on  a  farmer’s 
home,  inasmuch  as  there  are  certain 
climatic  conditions  and  characteristics  of 
soil  that  a  man  may  have  bought  in  the 
mad  rush  for  cheap  land  in  the  great 
West,  that  would  prevent  his  ever  getting 
enough  money  from  his  land  to  pay  the 
interest,  not  to  mention  the  face  of  a 
mortgage  that  may  have  been  placed 
upon  it  by  some  hustling  agent  during 
the  “boom”  period.  In  the  East,  how¬ 
ever,  we  see  other  conditions :  the  land 
has  steadily  declined  in  value  till  at  the 
present  time  the  bottom  seems  to  be 
reached. 
As  I  look  around  me  I  can  see  perhaps 
a  dozen  farms  in  my  own  neighborhood 
that  were  heavily  mortgaged  10  years 
ago,  which  are  free,  or  nearly  so,  from 
all  encumbrances  to-day.  The  owners 
have  certainly  paid  off  their  mortgages  ; 
now,  how  have  they  done  it  ?  By  farm¬ 
ing  intelligently,  by  the  strictest  kind  of 
economy,  and  by  working  both  early  and 
late  through  all  these  years.  On  the 
other  hand,  I  know  numbers  of  other 
farms  that  were  free  from  encumbrance 
15  or  20  years  ago,  that  have  either  been 
sold  at  a  forced  sale  or  foreclosed  upon 
by  the  holders  of  mortgages  during  the 
last  few  years.  The  owners  have  appar¬ 
ently  worked  just  as  hard,  and  they  have 
not  been  needlessly  extravagant,  I  should 
judge,  but  the  fact  remains  that  they  are 
poor  to-day,  whereas  20  years  ago  they 
were  “  well  off.” 
It  would  be  presumptuous  in  me  to  tell 
a  poor  farmer  how  he  could  pay  off  the 
mortgage  on  his  farm,  as  I  have  never 
paid  off  one  myself.  I  believe,  however, 
that  I  could  buy  any  good  100  acre  farm 
in  my  vicinity,  say  for  $7,000,  run  in  debt 
for  the  whole  of  it  at  five  per  cent,  live, 
and  pay  for  the  farm  out  of  the  sales 
thereof  in  10  years,  and  have  the  farm  in 
better  shape  then  than  it  is  at  present. 
What  Sort  of  a  Silo  P 
Prof.  A.  J.  Cook. — If  the  silo  is  to  be 
built  in  the  barn,  I  should  surely  build  a 
rectangular  one,  because  of  economy  of 
room;  if  it  is  to  be  out,  I  would  prefer  a 
round  one,  so  as  to  avoid  angles.  This 
kind  is  also  strong  and  cheap.  I  should 
use  2x4  studding,  and  hoop  by  horizontal 
siding  of  one-half  inch  stuff  inside  and 
out.  I  should  use  a  double  thickness  of 
this,  over-lapping  it.  The  great  point  in 
a  silo,  is  that  it  shall  be  air-tight,  hence 
I  should  put  paper  between  the  two  layers 
of  siding — at  least  on  the  inside — and 
coat  all  with  coal  tar..  I  am  not  sure,  how¬ 
ever,  but  that  the  plastered  silo  will 
prove  the  most  satisfactory  in  the  end. 
My  first  silo  now  in  use  for  several  years, 
has  a  plastered  wall,  which  is  very  hard 
and  excellent.  I  have  washed  it  each 
year  with  a  thick  water  lime  wash,  be¬ 
fore  filling  the  silo.  This  costs  but  little, 
and  fills  all  possible  cracks,  and  I  think 
preserves  the  plaster.  The  plaster  costs 
but  very  little  more  than  the  tarring  and 
in  the  end  may  prove  the  cheaper.  Were 
I  to  build  another  out-door  silo,  I  should 
build  it  round,  and  plaster  it  on  the  in¬ 
side.  My  octagonal  silo  is  excellent,  al¬ 
most  equal  to  a  round  one.  I  still  think 
the  cut  straw  cover — about  two  feet — 
with  a  few  boards  to  hold  it  down  is  ex¬ 
cellent.  My  loss  from  decay  with  this 
method  is  almost  nothing. 
I  still  like  ensilage  for  horses,  and  I 
have  used  it  for  four  winters.  I  think 
my  horses  do  better,  and  are  wintered 
more  cheaply  by  giving  them  at  least 
half  rations  of  ensilage.  Of  course  it 
must  be  fed  with  some  caution.  If  the 
horses’  bowels  seem  to  become  clogged, 
I  hold  up  on  the  feed;  though  I  have  fed 
all  ensilage  with  results  entirely  satisfac¬ 
tory.  Of  course  it  must  be  good.  I  would 
not  feed  spoiled  ensilage  to  horses  or  any 
other  animal,  indeed  I  would  not  have 
any  such  to  feed.  By  observing  the  right 
methods  in  putting  it  up,  there  is  no  need 
to  have  any  that  is  not  of  the  best.  By 
feeding  ensilage  I  can  give  to  my  horses 
the  sleek  coat  that  is  observed  upon  hay- 
fed  horses  after  they  are  turned  out  in 
May  to  pasture  in  a  field  where  the  grass 
is  tender  and  rich. 
I  have  several  reports  of  horses  which 
were  sickened  or  killed  by  feeding  en¬ 
silage.  In  all  such  cases  I  am  sure  that 
either  the  ensilage  was  poor,  or  else  very 
little  judgment  was  exercised  in  feed¬ 
ing  it. 
Beat  the  Drum  for  War  Against  Disease. 
B.  B.,  Farmingdale,  Ti.l. — Why  would 
it  not  be  a  good  thing  for  the  govern¬ 
ment  to  establish  an  institution  with  all 
necessary  appliances  to  investigate  dis¬ 
ease  and  find  remedies  ?  I  am  in  favor 
of  it.  All  are  alike  interested  ;  none  can 
object.  The  main  difficulty  would  be 
to  find  the  best  men  for  the  heads  of  such 
an  institution — such  men  in  medicine  as 
Edison  is  in  his  line.  In  view  of  the  re¬ 
cent  discoveries  regarding  the  relation  of 
germs  to  disease,  we  should  expect  great 
results  in  the  near  future.  [Isn't  the 
government  doing  this  ?  Eds.]  Among 
all  the  objects  for  which  we  are  taxed 
none  is  of  more  general  interest  than 
this  ?  Where  can  the  objectors  come 
from  ?  Few  persons  possess  the  means, 
or  have  the  spare  time  for  investigation, 
especially  before  they  have  .  fallen  into 
ruts,  which  are  very  fatal  to  advance¬ 
ment. 
Hang  On  to  the  North. 
H.  H.  G.,  Northville,  Tf.nn. — On  page 
346  an  Alliance  Congressman  from  Geor¬ 
gia  advises  a  Kansas  farmer  to  sell  out 
and  go  South.  My  Northern  friends  of 
The  Rural  I  would  urge  to  go  slow  in 
selling  out  and  going  South.  I  am  a 
Northern  man  and  have  lived  in  the 
South.  I  have  a  farm  all  paid  for,  but 
have  no  land  to  sell  and  am  not  an  agent 
for  any  other  man.  Friends,  if  you  are 
making  half  of  a  living  and  are  out  of 
debt,  stay  where  you  are  and  don’t  come 
South. 
Blessings  on  Munson ! 
S.  D.  E.,  Umpqua  Ferry,  Oreg. — I  see 
a  correspondent  from  New  Hampshire 
says  the  Parker  Earle  Strawberry  fails 
with  him.  In  this  country  it  is  the  best 
all-round  berry  I  know  of.  March  17, 
1892,  I  put  out  100  plants,  not  potted,  and 
on  May  25  I  picked  one  quart  of  fine 
berries  and  counted  45  berries  and  blos¬ 
soms  on  one  vine.  Since  then  we  have 
used  about  one  quart  per  day  from  these 
vines,  while  the  Bubach  and  Wilson’s 
Albany  alongside  of  them,  have  not 
yielded  anything.  This  is  certainly  a 
fine  berry  for  this  coast.  My  blessings 
on  the  man  who  originated  it. 
True  Inwardness. 
Some  remarkable  evidence  bearing 
upon  the  hereditary  transmission  of 
mutilations  has  recently  been  offered  by 
Mr.  A.  J.  S.  Shiddell,  of  Lexington,  Ky., 
and  reported  in  a  recent  number  of  the 
Medical  Record  and  copied  by  Popular 
Science  News.  White  mice  were  selected 
for  the  experiment,  on  account  of  the 
rapid  succession  of  generations — as  they 
breed  every  30  days,  and  when  30  days 
old  are  able  to  reproduce  themselves.  Mr. 
Shiddell  selected  a  pair,  which  he  kept 
by  themselves,  and  took  their  young  and 
clipped  their  tails  off.  When  they  were 
old  enough  to  breed,  he  selected  a  pair 
from  among  those  with  clipped  tails,  and 
performed  a  similar  operation  upon  their 
offspring.  After  the  seventh  generation 
some  of  the  mice  were  born  without  tails  . 
and  after  a  few  more  trials  a  breed  of 
tailless  mice  was  firmly  established. 
The  process  was  then  reversed,  by  mating 
an  ordinary  tailed  mouse  with  one  of  the 
tailless  breed  ;  and  after  a  number  of 
generations  the  breed  of  mice  with  the 
usual  caudal  appendage  was  once  more 
obtained.  Incidentally  to  these  experi¬ 
ments  the  “in  and  in”  breeding  of  the 
mice  was  continued  through  96  genera¬ 
tions,  all  the  sickly  and  defective  animals 
being  destroyed,  and  only  the  best  speci¬ 
mens  selected  to  continue  the  race.  The 
result  was  the  production  of  a  pure- 
blooded  animal,  much  larger  and  finer  in 
every  way  than  the  original  pair.  These 
experiments  are  apparently  trustworthy 
in  every  respect,  and  are  of  such  import¬ 
ance  from  a  scientific  point  of  view — 
especially  in  their  bearing  upon  the 
theory  of  evolution — that  we  hope  they 
will  be  confirmed  by  repetition  by  inde¬ 
pendent  investigators.  Dishorning  cattle 
may  ultimately  throw  light  upon  the  sub¬ 
ject . 
The  Newtown  Pippin,  says  A.  S.  Fuller 
in  the  New  York  Tribune,  is  so  popular 
in  English  markets  that  nearly  the  en¬ 
tire  product  goes  abroad,  leaving  few  or 
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