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Next week we shall have a good deal to say 
about silos and the ensilage system. The boys 
will be interested in this subject because it is 
going to be of great importance in the farm¬ 
ing of the future. We shall always be obliged 
to keep cattle and it will always be a great 
problem with us how to get the cheapest feed. 
The farmer who can put flesh on cattle for the 
least money will come out ahead, and the 
dairyman who can make good milk and but¬ 
ter at the lightest expense for feed will leave 
his neighbors in the rear. Now the great 
point claimed for the ensilage system,one of the 
great points at least, is that it makes a cheap¬ 
er food because it preserves all that part of 
the crop that the sun and the air take out. 
Besides this, it is claimed that silage is in bet¬ 
ter shape for feeding and that cattle like it. 
Everybody knows that food which tastes good 
makes one feel better than that which does 
not taste good. It is also well known that 
fruit and vegetables add wonderfully to a 
meal. Now with these points in mind we can 
study the ensilage system and see what we 
can make out of it. 
The girls must be prepared to keep up the 
supply of “Home Silage,” while the boys are 
making the stock happy. By “Home Silage” 
I mean canned goods and preserves. We want 
plenty of canned fruit for winter use. Such 
vegetables as sweet corn, beans, and tomatoes 
too, must be canned. We can carry a good 
deal of the summer into the winter by such 
practices, and the girls are the ones to do this 
work. Every farmer’s girl should know how 
to prepare canned goods. It won’t do to have 
it said that the stock at the barn have silage 
while the human beings at the house have to 
get along without fruit and vegetables. That 
would be carrying the thing too far. Now 
then, the time is coming when preparations 
must be made for the silage both for the barn 
and for the house. We must be ready for it. 
There is a moral side to ensilage too. The 
silo teaches us how to keep happy and how to 
do good in the world. The silo holds the fresh¬ 
ness and bloom of summer far into the winter. 
The good things of summer are packed away 
in the silo where they can't get out, and where 
they keep their sweetness till wanted. Now 
let a man or woman, a boy or a girl try to re¬ 
member all the good and pleasant things of 
life, keep thinking about them and stowing 
them away in the mind; let them always try 
to look on the bright side of life, and they will 
find that they carry around the best kind of a 
silo wherever they go. Whenever life looks 
a little blue or discouraging, and things seem 
to go wrong, there will be hundreds of pleas¬ 
ant things crowding into the mind and making 
life seem a little better. That is the moral les¬ 
son to be learned from the silo. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: It is nearly a year 
since I wrote to you, and I will now contribute 
my mite to the Y. H. C. I have been attend¬ 
ing school at Ludington, but am now at home 
for a week’s vacation. As I write I have the 
late Rural (April 7) at my side, and have 
just finished reading Cousin Emily Cockeran’s 
letter. Let me say to Cousin Emily that I 
heartily agree with her on the hired man ques¬ 
tion. How I would like to have a good talk with 
her! Perhaps if, by some mysterious power, 
Mrs. Fisher could be transformed into one of 
those hired men, she would have occasion to 
alter her way of thinking a trifle. To be sure, 
one would have more time to devote to writ¬ 
ing, reading, or fancy work if such work as 
caring for the men’s rooms were shifted upon 
their shoulders, but I would feel rather small 
if it were to devolve on me to say to ihe man 
when hired, that he was expected to care for 
his own room—which work I considered an 
“indignity” to do—keep out of the way, and 
make as little extra work as possible. 
No; we are not so afraid of a little more 
work. It is not a disgrace, but an honor to be 
employed in any honorable work. A cham¬ 
bermaid may be as dignified as one employed 
in literary work. As for eating at the same 
table, if a “help” is not considered fit for his 
presence to be allowed even at meals, he is too 
low for one to receive the slightest help from. 
We will obtain social purity only by weeding 
out the impure from the pure, and then teach¬ 
ing the former how they may rise up out of 
the depths of wickedness to a higher and there¬ 
fore purer life. And now about those culti¬ 
vated girls of Pennsylvania, whose father had 
given them a superior education, and whom— 
poor things 1 had to carry a lunch to the har¬ 
vesters both in the forenoon and afternoon. 
Do you think they were any the less cultivat¬ 
ed, or lo;t any of their superior education by 
so doing? On the contrary, they were given . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
the opportunity of refreshing their botanical 
knowledge by analyzing the parts of that most 
interesting as well as useful plant, the potato. 
That is, if the field was close by, or any of the 
numerous varieties of botanical specimens a 
close observer would see. Not only could 
they do that, but I think a breath of the fresh, 
sweet-smelling air from the hay field would 
put new life into their bodies, and a brisk 
walk send the blood coursing through their 
veins, and they would return home rested 
and refreshed. 
I wonder if Mrs. Fisher believes that “There 
is no joy but calm.” I guess she must have 
been reading the “Lotus Eaters.” She says, 
“Moreover a woman should not forget that 
she is a woman, the crowning work of the 
Creator, and that the object of her creation 
was not toil.” We are not likely to forget 
that we are women now that the fact is 
brought so forcibly to our minds; but, 
while remembering that, ought we not to 
work, aye, toil, if need be, to accom¬ 
plish that which falls to our lot? We all 
have a work to do, and whatever we under¬ 
take to do, ought we not to do it well even 
though it may be making “vulgar pies” and 
making beds for the hired men? There is an 
art in the making of pies and beds, as well as 
in literary work, painting, or the finest needle 
work. 
I think the country people among whom 
Mrs. Fisher has been, cannot have acquired 
the art of cooking, and not having it, it is 
certainly most fortunate for them that they 
have stomachs that will rival that of the rhi- 
nosceros. Now mother makes both pies and 
doughnuts—the vulgar, plebeian, mean pie, 
the most—and none of us have yet had the 
dyspepsia or any other disease arising from 
the eating of pastry. There is no other fam¬ 
ily around that enjoys better health than we 
do; we have not had a doctor’s bill to pay in 
15 years until this winter, and then my 
brother was coasting and ran against a tree 
and broke his leg. Perhaps he had eaten 
some of that indigestible pastry and the mis¬ 
ery resulting from it rendered him unable to 
steer his sled straight and in consequence 
caused the broken limb. 
That picture at the head of the column 
treating of the Dark Side of Farm Life is far 
from being the likeness of the farmers’ wives 
of Northern Michigan. Such a tired, helpless, 
despairing look is not met with about our 
homes. If I were living in a city and was un¬ 
acquainted with farmers and farm life and 
had read Mrs. Fisher’s articles, I would say 
that instead of sending missionaries to for¬ 
eign lands, we should send them out to con¬ 
vert the ignorant, uncultured farmer of our 
own enlightened country. “brownie.” 
Scottsville, Mich. 
Dear Cousins: I have been reading your 
letters and have enjoyed myself trying to 
think what you looked like and how and where 
your homes are. You would have felt very 
much inclined to laugh if you could see the 
description of you that my mind has drawn. 
I am not a farmer’s daughter, but like to live 
in the country. We are living in the coun¬ 
try now for Papa’s health, and I do wish some 
of you could have seen me trying to milk a 
cow this morning. This is the first we have 
taken the R. N.-Y., but we are all in love 
with it now. I have fine times here. I wish 
some of you were here to enjoy them with me. 
There are six children in our family beside 
myself. I am the oldest, and Mamma is sick 
most of the time, so you see I have to take 
care of the children and do most of the house¬ 
work. Don’t you think a girl can work bet¬ 
ter when her hands are smooth and white? I 
do and I am going to tell you how you can 
do all the work you want to and still have 
nice hands. Take a pair of old pants and 
make you a pair of mittens of them. If you 
can’t cut them out, lay your hand on a piece 
of paper, then take a lead pencil and draw or 
trace around your hand, taking care to have 
them good and large. Wear these mittens 
always when going out into the air, then every 
night take a little milk and one-fourth as 
as much water, put in a little alum and wash 
the hands in this mixture. If you have no 
alum use the milk and water. Sleeping with 
gloves on is also good, but too uncomfortable 
for me. Here is a good recipe for old-fashioned 
sugar candy. Take two cups of sugar to one 
of vinegar; let boil until it hardens in cold 
water. Let cool, then pull until white. If 
cream candy is desired put one teaspoonful of 
cream-of-tartar, just before taking from the 
stove. * JENNIE MAY. 
SPRAYING 
to destroy insects Is neces¬ 
sary to secure perfect Fruit. 
For full directions and out¬ 
fits for hand or horse power aFboitom cash prices 
Address Field 
Force Pump Co., 
Lockport, N. Y. 
FRUIT TREES 
Why We Win 
Because Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the best spring medi¬ 
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Because It Is a concentrated extract of the best alter¬ 
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Because every article entering into it is carefully 
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and every purchaser receives a fair equivalent for his 
money. 
Because its advertising is original and not depend¬ 
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Because when given a faithful trial it is reasonably 
certain to effect the desired result. 
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by 
C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 
IOO Doses One Dollar. 
BLATCHFORD’S 
CALF MEAL 
Milk Substitute for Young Stock. 
Endorsed by Agricultural Experiment Stations, 
Breeders of Fine Stock, Farmers and especially Dairy¬ 
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much less cost. 
PRICKS: 
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100 lbs. make 200 gallons of rich nutritious gruel, 
A “wet nurse” Calf Feeder supplied free with every 
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Full directions for feeding in each bag. 
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Note what Professors Goessmann, Morrow, MeMur- 
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Send for “Pamphlet on Feeding,” issued and mailed 
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Warranted cholera proof. 
Express prepaid. Wins 1st 
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Chester White, Berkshire A York¬ 
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stock from worms. 
SURE CURE for MILK FEVER and GARGET. 
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$100 will be paid for anything poisonous 
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THOROUGHBRED Geese, and Turkeys, 
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Trade Mark. 
Only three-quarters of one cent per square foot for 2 
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Mention the Rural New-Yorker. 
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