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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 26 
R. F. Bennett, Arkansas Experiment 
Station. —I have had no experience with 
an underground silo built as proposed on 
page 540, and I do not know of one con¬ 
structed in that manner in the South ; 
consequently I have no facts to offer con¬ 
cerning such a silo. Of course, the main 
difficulty to be overcome is the exclusion 
of air and water, and, in the way of a 
suggestion to the proposed plan, I may 
say that the double walls of poles should 
not touch each other at the corners. The 
inner corners should be sawed down 
tquare so as to permit the inter-wall space 
to extend around the corners the same as 
between the sides. The poles of both walls 
* s.iould be straight and notched suffi¬ 
ciently at each end to allow them to 
come as near each other as possible, to 
reduce to a minimum the space between 
the pole above and the one below of the 
same wall. The inner wall corners should 
be filled with good mud before filling the 
space with earth. The exclusion of air 
will depend materially upon the charac¬ 
ter of the earth with which the inter¬ 
wall space is filled. The earth should be 
good clay, slightly moist and free from 
stones and all vegetable matter, then 
thoroughly packed in. 
It would be advisable to reduce the 
length of the silo and increase its width, 
making it, say, 10x40 feet. That would 
materially lessen the length of the wall 
to be built, and would also reduce the 
number of spaces through which air m ight 
enter. The silo would be better shal¬ 
low than too deep, for very deep lateral 
pressure would be too great for walls 
constructed in that way. After the inter¬ 
wall space has been filled with packed 
clay, the space between the poles on the 
outside of the outer wall should be thor¬ 
oughly fillec with clay mud, particularly 
around the corners. On a few inches of 
packed clay at the bottom edges of the 
inner wall some mud should be put as an 
additional means to exclude the air. The 
ensilage material should be evenly and 
thoroughly tramped in while filling, and 
no stones should be used as weights, but 
a layer of straw and a few inches of 
earth evenly spread over and packed 
with the back of a spade. Tar paper put 
under straw and earth would be a great 
advantage. 
The correspondent may find that the 
rainfall is too great in his climate for the 
exclusion of rain water without a shelter, 
and that one of some kind over the silo 
may be absolutely necessary. Prairie hay 
would be more profitably cured for hay 
than ensiloed. I do not believe it would 
make good ensilage because of its rough, 
dry, harsh nature. 
A Drafted Man Talks. 
S. U. C., Hakknkss, N. Y.—The man 
who wrote the piece on the editorial page 
of .July 15 in regard to the timid drafted 
men is either a fool or a knave. If he 
does not know what the law is or the 
claims of the drafted men, he is a fool 
for writing on the subject; if he does 
know, he is a knave to so misrepresent 
them. Perhaps he is one of the eco¬ 
nomical fools who got rich out of the 
money of the drafted men ; but, no, that 
cannot be, for he is not old enough to 
have been drafted, or he would know 
better than to write and publish such a 
piece. He says : “ The Nation can well 
afford to be generous with those who 
fought in her behalf, but what claim on 
a Nation or State have those who pusil- 
lanimously” put their hands in their own 
pockets and paid $300, more or less, for 
a substitute to keep them from being 
obliged to leave a wife and four small 
children on a farm, and no one to look 
after them? In my own case I was the 
only boy at home, with an old father and 
mother to care for, and to take care of 
myself, I paid $300, and then our town 
said they would take care of the rest, and 
made me pay $220 tax in December after 
my $300 in July, where I had usually paid 
from $38 to $43 tax, and I had to keep 
doing that until the war closed, and then 
my town got back from the government 
$000 on the credit of my $300. 
A word in regard to pensions : there 
are in my neighborhood five men who 
draw them. One of them was slightly 
wounded, but is well and all right now. 
Nothing is the matter with the others, 
and one of them has told me he stood 
picket two nights, and that was all the 
fighting he ever did, for he was in the 
provoBt marshal office at Norfolk, Va. 
He married a rich wife and is well and 
healthy, but gets a pension all the same. 
R. N.-Y.—The above is a fair sample 
of letters we receive now and then. We 
print it here, just as written, at the 
author’s request. We have no desire for 
a long argument on the subject. While 
undoubtedly there were men who were 
unable to leave home and could honor¬ 
ably and patriotically hire substitutes, 
the great majority of them did so sim¬ 
ply to avoid getting into danger. We 
should be willing fer a man with a re¬ 
cord such as our friend claims, to be re¬ 
imbursed, but we are not willing that 
the 100 others who paid their money 
simply to save their skins should have a 
cent back. 
As for the writer of the article re¬ 
ferred to, having voluntarily donned the 
blue, and being at the front during the 
draft troubles, he had fewer and less 
favorable opportunities for studying the 
operations of the draft law than those 
who, away in the rear, were reluctantly 
disgorging a pittance to evade its pro¬ 
visions. Those who did this got the full 
worth of their money by exemption 
from danger and an opportunity of en¬ 
richment at a specially favorable time ; 
is it any wonder that those who didn’t 
think highly of their courage or patriot¬ 
ism then, should now object to repaying 
them, with big interest, the money for 
which they got a quid pro quo over a quar¬ 
ter of a century ago? They ate their cake 
then, yet they clamor for it with a lot 
more now! Such men can hardly be 
called “fools”; though some might think 
the other epithet used by S. II. C. appli¬ 
cable to them. Wasn’t there a provision 
of the law which exempted from con¬ 
scription a man having “a wife and four 
small children” dependent upon him-? 
That South Carolina Dispensary Law Again. 
W. T., Aiken, S. C —J. C. I., Pendle¬ 
ton, S. C., calls money obtained by the 
old sytem of licensing, “ bread money 
drawn from the mouths of many chil¬ 
dren by the legalized whisky dens of the 
State.” I agree with him as to the cor¬ 
rectness of this definition, but has there 
been any change for the better ? The 
change has been a consolidation of the 
liquor business of the State into a mon¬ 
opoly, and monopolies are always vora¬ 
cious and consider the public their ap¬ 
propriate prey. 
A lady of my acquaintance complained 
to me last week about the local dispen¬ 
sary. Her husband is addicted to drink, 
and rarely comes to town without re¬ 
turning home drunk. She expected that 
as soon as the dispensary was working 
he would go home sober, but she says 
that he goes home as drunk as ever. I 
suggested that he obtained the liquor 
from a “blind tiger.” “No, sir,” was 
the answer, “ it was dispensary liquor. 
I know the bottles,” and the presump¬ 
tion is that he paid some one to obtain 
the stuff for him, and the party who did 
so should not only suffer the full pen¬ 
alty of the law, but get a good scourg¬ 
ing to boot. 
Now I suppose I shall have to do more 
“swimming and flying ” than ever, as 
the whole profits of the liquor trade are 
equally divided between the counties 
and the towns, so that the bridges are 
still built with “bread money,” and as 
there is more of it, better bridges can be 
built than the shaky affairs row known 
by the name in many places. All these 
are derived from the legalized bar-rooms, 
now called dispensaries. 
Now let me correct a wrong impres¬ 
sion entertained abroad : a great many 
people think that all Tillmanites are in 
favor of the dispensaries, and all anti- 
Tillmanites against them. Such, how¬ 
ever, is not the case; the majority of 
the Antis in Aiken are in favor of the 
Dispensary Law, and propose to give it 
a fair trial ; on the other hand, a great 
many Tillman men oppose it, denounce 
it as unjust and tending to introduce a 
paternal form of government. I am a 
fruit grower, not a bar-keeper, and have 
had no interest whatever in the liquor 
trade, and speak as I see things. 
In answer to J. W. W., Virginia, I am 
glad to know that the liquor question is 
exciting interest in other States; the 
more the business is discussed, the sooner 
will it be abolished. 
When Tillman was elected, the licensing 
or non-licensing of saloons was left to 
the people of the State to decide. There 
were regular ballot boxes at each polling 
precinct. The votes read “ Prohibition” 
and “ No Prohibition.” The Prohibition¬ 
ists carried the day by a large majority 
and their wishes and votes should have 
been obeyed and no legalized bar-rooms, 
f. e., dispensaries, should be allowed. 
Under the old law I was a participant in 
a part of the profits; now I am a partici¬ 
pant in the whole, and this against my 
will, as I voted for Prohibition. A saloon 
is now called a State dispensary and a 
State dispensary is merely a legalized 
“ whisky den.” 
(Continued on next page.) 
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