The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, July 24, 1891, Image 9
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THE AIKEN RECORDER.
AIKEN, S. C-, JULY 24. 1891.
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^ BUILDING A SILO.
PnM^tlcal Hints fur Fanners I>eslrons of
HXakliig Such a Structure This Season.
Silos may be made from any building
inaterial, and aljove ground or under
ground, but it is generally conceded that
a cheap building of wood above ground
is better and cheaper than the under
ground pits. Silos should be watertight,
and preferably airtight and frostproof,
Although these two points are not es
sential. The situation and construction
of the silo, and the arrangements for fill
ing. covering and emptying, should be
largely governed by local conditions.
Several small silos, independent or con
necting. are better than one large one,
and the depth should be considerably
greater than the length, width or diame
ter. Thus a small silo, ten feet square
on the ground, ought to be fifteen feet
high to the eaves. This is about as small
a one as will be found profitable to use,
and it will hold about thirty tons, or
to feed nine or ten animals for
months.
In Powell’s A, B, C of Agriculture
are given the following directions for
making a silo: Having determined how
large the building is to be, set stout hard
wood posts in the ground four feet apart
the full height of the walls, around the
space to l>e inclosed. These posts should
be brought to au^xact line with each
other on the instil. Now sheath with
plank one and a quarter inches thick on
the inside horizontally. On the inside of
this cover with building paper and sheath
again with narrow dressed plank verti-
caiiy. so as to make a smooth inside sur
face. This inside sheathing should be
painted over with boiled tar to prevent
decay. The walls should be braced hori
zontally aert'ss each comer, and an oc
casional girder across the top. The roof
should l>e made of a sharp pitch to give
head room in filling, and the eaves should
project well all around to throw the
water away from the sides. No floor is
needed inside, and if the ends of the roof
project well the gables need not be
closed.
It is best to build next a hillside, so
that a platform can be run Jtcross to the
.gable end on which to place the cutting
* machine in filling. But this is not es
sential, since all the ensilage cutters are
now supplied with carriers for elevating
the cut corn and dropping it in at the
top. On one side of the silo a doorway
should be made between two of the posts
tho entire height of the walls and well
braced across at intervals. A series of
doors without hinges should be made to
drop in one above the other, each about
four feet high, to be held in place by
pressnL-nm whinn, so as to make
DUCKS .Vi D DUCK t£G'
Does Farming Pay?
Practical Information on Several Much
Disputed Points in Duck Culture.
The following queries were recent!/
asked and answered in the New York
World:
“1. Do I need drakes? 2. Is there a
sufficient and paying market for large
quantities of duck eggs? 3. What is the
best !>kx1 for laying ducks? 4. How long
bef ie ducks hatched in March will com
mence to lay? 5. Must I separate them
into small flocks, or can l leave them to
gether in one large flock? 0. Is there a
good market for spring ducks? 7. Will
a dock farm managed right pay?”
The foregoing questions were answered
as follows:
1. You need to keep drakes for breed
ing purposes. There should be about
one drake to five ducks. 2. Duck
eggs have a fairly good market.
When used for culinary purposes they
sell at fully the same rates as hen
eggs; sometimes they sell higher. It
is, however, believed that raising ducks
for eggs alone can hardly be made
profitable. Their natural laying season
is at a time when eggs are plenty and
cheap, and there would be along interval,
with no ca-rij return, ynd ducks are hug -
eaters. Simply as egg producers hens
will be found the most profnable. Rais
ing ducks for their and marketing
them when 8 or 10 weeks old, is consider
ed the best part of the business. 3. Ducks
will eat almost anything, and generally
appear to be on the move hunting for
something more to eat. They are ex
tremely partial to soft food, such as a
cornmeal and bran mixture. They also
devour all green stuff and cooked vege
tables greedily. Dry grains may be given
them once a day in small quantities. 4.
As before stated, spring is their natural
laying season, but under domestication
some varieties have been made to lay at
7 months old, and in some cases, it has
been said, even earlier, but such precoci
ty cannot be depended on.
In reply to question 5 wo quote from
Mr. James Rankin, an excellent author
ity on ducks. He says: “My ducks are
confined in yards 21 by 100 feet, some
forty birds in each yard. They never
see water the year round except to drink.”
As will be perceived, Mr. Rankin does
not consider a free range essential. He
hatches his eggs with artificial incu
bators. While ducks may be reared,
under careful management, without
water and in restricted quarters, when
practicable they ought to have a reason
able amount of space and water. All
poultry thrive better for having suffi
cient range. 6. There is always a good
market fit largo cities for early young
ducks. 7. Whether a duck farm will pay
depends on the man, his management,
his liking for the business and a location
convenient to a good market.
There is ample testimony that persons
favorably situated as to markets, who
raise chickens and ducks in large num
bers, do make the business pay. No one
should undertake it, however, under the
mistaken idea that it will be an easy
business that will half run itself. Noth
in— 'ffiort of unremitting attention, con
st. at labor and the l>est methods will
make it a paying one. A beginner
should go slow at first until he learns it
and finds out whether he likes it. For
ducks that are to be kept the year round
a location where they can gather a good
part of their own living will be an ad-
For such as are to bo sold, the
In the Augusta Chronicle of the
17th in a letter over the signature ot
Mrs. Janette C Mclnnes on the sub
ject of farming she says:
We unhesitatingly reply that farm
ing, conducted by farmers, produces
as satisfactory returus for time, labor
and capital invested as any other vo
cation, with equally, if not more com
pensating advantages in the way of
health, independence and home en
joyment. *********
The real delinquents, we have not
found in the ranks of the exclusive
and systematic tillers of th** soil, the
followers of the plough, sowers of
seed and harvesters of crops, but iu
the hosts of amateurs, horseback far
mers, and those who sit around home
one day overseeing their wife and
children “tending crop,” and the next
drive a load of wmod to the adjoining
cit3', returning with the proceeds in a
demijohn; or that class who endeavor
to combine the straight furrows of
their plough-shares with the intricate
and devious windings of the expedi
ent politician.
The reading of this letter, the
Chronicle says, in the Cotton Ex
change, turned the conversation to
that familar topic, the fooliahness of
the farmer in planting all cotton, and
Mr. O’Dowd said:
“The only hope for the farmers of
the South is to let cotton go down to
4 cents and corn up to $2. If they
can get nothing for their cotton, and
have not money enough to buy Wes
tern provisions, then they will turn
in and make them at home. As long
as the ceaseless tide of money pours
from the South to the West for the
necessaries of life, and we get no mon
ey from the West for anything, the
farmers of the South can never pros
per. It makes me mad to see our
farmers trying to form an alliance
with the West, the worst enemy to
the Souths development and prosper
ity. I had a farmer write to me to
send him a can of butter. I wrote
him that I wouldn’t do It, to make
his own butter at. home.”
“One day I had a farmer to order
from me,” said Mr. Z. W. Carwile,
“flour, meal, corn, hay, lard, molas
ses, butter, and I think a little of ev
erything else that ought to be raised
on a farm.” He was sitting in his
wagon at my door and I went out aud
asked him:
“What is your occupation.”
“I’m a farmer, sir.”
“Why, what do you grow on your
place?”
“Cotton.”
“Well, why don’t you buy it, too;
you buy everything else you ought to
raise; and you can buy it cheaper
than you can make it.
“The fellow looked thunderstruck,
but I hope I set him to thinking.”
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Port Royal & Western Carolina
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Lv Asheville 11:30 a in
“ Henderso’ville 12:36 pm
“ Spartanbuig 3:20 pm
“Greenville 3*00 pm
** Laurens 5:15 pm
“ Greenwood ... .6:25 pm
“ Anderson 2: pm
“ McCormick 7:40 p in
Ar Augusta 10:00 pm
Port Royal &, Augusta Railway.
Time—90th Meridian.
South - * +
Lv Aiigusta 11:45am 8:00 pm
Ar Yetnassee .... 3:35 p m 2:10 a m
Ar Charleston ..
..6:50 p
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Ar Jacksonville.
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Ar Beaufort
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Lv Jacksonville.
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