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Filling  Silo 
September  24. — It  lacks  but  a  week  of 
three  months  since  I  wrote  the  story  of  a 
rainy  day,  even  then  a  rare  and  welcome 
occurrence.  Since  that  time,  until  yes¬ 
terday’s  downpour,  the  country  in  this 
section  has  grown  steadily  more  and  more 
parched.  Gardens  have  suffered  pretty 
sharply.  Even  my  “dry  weather  cauli¬ 
flower”  declined  to  produce  heads  of  any 
size.  Late  plantings  of  all  kinds  refused 
to  respond  generously  to  the  most  faith¬ 
ful  cultivation.  Still,  as  always,  there 
are  compensations.  Tomatoes,  peppers 
and  eggplants  have  borne  specimens  tit 
for  a  county  fair,  and  all  the  root  crops 
are  abundant. 
I  have  sold  more  than  .$25  worth  of 
vegetables  from  my  little  garden,  sending 
them  in  weekly  boxes  to  New  York.  I 
offer  an  assortment  of  seasonable  vege¬ 
tables  for  50  cents — the  consumer  to  pay 
the  parcel  post  charges.  This  lias  proved 
very  satisfactory  to  all  concerned,  and 
my  customers  assert  that  things  so  sent 
are  fresher  and  better  than  those  ob¬ 
tainable  in  market.  Already  I  am  mak¬ 
ing  plans  for  a  larger  variety  and  better 
methods  next  year.  This,  to  my  mind, 
is  the  most  delightfully  inspiring  thing 
about  farming — the  perennial  chance  to 
make  a  fresh  start !  The  true  farmer — 
man  or  woman — is  always  confident  that 
another  season  will  show  a  big  improve¬ 
ment  all  along  the  line — 'better  weather, 
wiser  management,  bigger  crops  and  high¬ 
er  prices !  “Hope  springs  eternal”  even 
after  one  crosses  the  50  line,  thank 
Heaven  ! 
But  the  interest  of  the  moment  here 
is  silo  filling.  Dairying  is  our  main  in¬ 
dustry,  and  the  company  is  offering  a 
7%-cent  rate  this  Fall  as  against  6% 
cents  last  year.  Silos  have  gone  up  in 
our  vicinity  like  a  crop  of  great  cylin¬ 
drical  mushrooms,  and  are  being  filled 
with  an  excellent  grade  of  silage,  for  corn 
likes  hot.  dry  weather,  and  when  well  fed 
it  withstands  a  drought  bravely.  It  is 
the  rule  here  to  “join  work”  in  filling 
silo.  Not  every  farmer  has  the  neces¬ 
sary  equipment,  so  that  neighbors  com¬ 
bine,  and  many  hands  make,  if  not  “light 
work.”  at  least  quick  and  efficient  ac¬ 
complishment.  In  our  five-acre  cornfield 
last  week  could  be  seen  a  rather  amus¬ 
ingly  varied  assortment  of  laborers.  First 
came  Grandfather,  owner  and  baek-to- 
tke-lander,  whose  native  thoroughness 
won  him  the  post  of  man-in-the-silo. 
Next  the  farmer  son,  rather  of  the  tense 
and  lean  New  England  type,  whose  five 
years  of  hard  work  since  agricultural  col¬ 
lege  have  not  served  to  quench  his  early 
enthusiasm  for  the  calling.  Followed  a 
neighboring  business  farmer  with  his 
team,  an  aggressive  New  York  lawyer  on 
vacation,  as  determined  not  to  be  out¬ 
distanced  with  the  corn-knife  as  with  the 
tongue  and  pen,  and  the  medical  student, 
driving  our  home-bred  colts  and  keeping 
an  eye  on  little  Bill,  as  self-reliant  a 
two-year-old  as  ever  perched  on  a  load  of 
corn  fodder!  There  was  Grandmother 
in  bloomers,  covered  with  enthusiasm, 
and  a  basket  of  ripe  peaches,  and  last, 
but  by  no  means  least,  the  hired  man, 
whose  easy  loose-jointed  stride  and  de¬ 
licious  Yankee  humor  make  him  as  en¬ 
joyable  as  he  is  efficient.  All  worked 
with  a  will,  and  the  hum  of  engine  and 
cutting  box  scarce  stopped  for  a  moment 
as  the  glorious  September  day  went  by. 
Back  and  forth  hurried  the  two  farm 
wagons,  and  down  went  row  after  row 
of  yellow  dent,  heavy  with  ears  which  the 
squirrels  and  ’coons  had  already  discov¬ 
ered.  Their  nightly  husking  bees  would 
soon  have  made  serious  inroads  on  the 
crop. 
I  have  never  cooked  or  tasted  ’coon 
meat,  but  George  assures  me  that  I 
“couldn’t  scarcely  tell  it  from  ‘fraish’ 
roasted  pork.”  Young  woodchuck  I  tried 
this  Summer.  Grandfather  caught  not 
less  than  10  under  the  Sweet  Bough  tree 
near  my  garden — and  it  seemed  to  me 
almost  indistinguishable  from  rabbit. 
At  the  edge  of  the  cornfield,  festooned 
luxuriantly  over  a  slender  wild  cherry,  I 
discovered  a  grapevine  loaded  with  its 
fragrant  bunches.  Can  anyone  tell  me 
why  wild  grapes  have  a  perfume  so  vast¬ 
ly  superior  to  that  of  the  finest  cultivat¬ 
ed  variety ?  It  was  imposible  to  resist 
rlie  temptation  to  endanger  middle-aged 
life  and  limb  for  the  sweet  sake  of  jelly, 
spiced  preserve  and  grapejuice.  The 
roads  about  us — even  back  roads — have 
been  painstakingly  patrolled  by  automo¬ 
bile  parties  in  search  of  wild  grapes, 
cider  apples,  elderberries,  anything  for 
the  inevitable  home-brew ! 
“We  won’t  be  blowing  our  fingers  cold 
mornings  next  month,”  says  George,  as 
we  pause  to  survey  the  clean  stubbly 
cornfield  when  chore  time  approaches. 
No,  there  will  be  no  husking  to  do.  no 
wet  or  frozen  corn  fodder  to  handle.  The 
cows  can  hardly  wait,  each  for  her  turn, 
as  the  baskets  of  succulent  silage  are 
emptied  in  the  mangers.  This  is  the  effi¬ 
cient  way,  no  doubt,  but  I  am  old-fash¬ 
ioned,  and  I  miss  the  rows  of  corn  shocks 
and  the  heaps  of  yellow  ears! 
GRANDMOTHER  ROSE. 
Washington  Pie 
Three  eggs,  one  cup  sugar,  1%  cups 
flour,  two  teaspoons  cold  water,  one  tea¬ 
spoon  baking  powder.  This  makes  the 
cake.  Filling:  One  egg,  one-half  cup 
milk,  one  tablespoon  cornstarch,  one 
tablespoon  sugar.  Bake  cake  in  two  lay¬ 
ers.  Boil  the  filling  and  let  get  cold. 
Then  cut  layers  through  horizontally  and 
spread  filling.  Then  put  together.  1.  T. 
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is  so  popular  with  smartly 
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The  notched  collar  and 
revers,  as  well  as  the  ves- 
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novelty  looped  braid  and 
the  front  is  finished  with 
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misses  32  to  38  bust.  Skirt  length: 
33  to  39  inches.  Guaranteed* 
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