'Cbc Conservative *
MOKE CORN STOVKK SUGGESTIONS
OWENSBORO , Ky. , May 16 , 1899.
EDITOR THE CONSERVATIVE ,
Nebraska City , Nob.
Dear Sir : Your issue of the 11th iust.
has reached mo ami your article "Corn
from the Kernel to the Stalk' ' interested
mo very much , particularly that pnrt
referring to the utilization of the fodder
as a cattle food.
I also note your reference to The
Marsden Company , and desire to say
for your information , that this company
is now in successful operation at this
point , and so well satisfied are wo with
the outlook for the future that we are
now preparing plans for the erection of
two extensive plants , one located at Lin
den , Indiana , the other at Newport
News , Virginia.
After a long period of experimenting
we have devised a very simple method
of separating the pith from the shell of
the stalk.
The pith we prepare for the govern
ment for use in packing the cofferdams
of war vessels , the manufacture of
smokeless powder , dynamite , substitute
for sponges , non-conductors of heat and
cold , etc. , etc.
The outer shell mixed with a proportion
tion of the leaf and husk is ground in
an attrition mill and furnishes an ideal
cattle feed , for which wo find a ready
sale both in this country and abroad.
Some use the meal in a raw state , others
use it to mix with cotton seed , linseed
and other strong feeds to bulk them.
Our entire output of this feed for this
year was sold at fair prices before it
was produced. Dealers recognizing its
value were willing to contract from
small sample.
I note your suggestion for a machine
with which the farmer can make a sep
aration of the pith and utilize the shell
for cattle feed. Such a device would
doubtless bo of great value , but I offer
an opinion that no machine that would
accomplish this could be built at a cost
low enough to enable the ordinary
farmer to use it. We for a long time
had such a machine in contemplation ,
but abandoned it owing to excessive cost
and power required to operate it.
We now have in course of construc
tion a machine that enables the farmer
to save for himself the fodder ( leaves
and husks ) and at the same time pro
duce for us the material we wish , viz :
the shell and the pith.
We have found that it is not practi
cal to feed the shell unless first ground
quite fine ; if not so ground , the sharp
ends and slivers make sore mouths.
It appears that THE CONSERVATIVE
and The Marsden Company are working
along nearly parallel lines , and it oc
curs to mo that it might prove mutually
advantageous if we could meet for an
exchange of views and experiouce.
To that end I most cordially invite
you to visit our plant here , when 1 will
take great pleasure in showing you
through and explaining our processes.
Wo are always interested in any now
machinery that will help cither to fur
nish us with the proper raw material , or
improve upon our methods for turning
out our finished products.
Very truly yours ,
THE MARSDEN COMPANY ,
A. G. Winter , Gen'l Mgr.
THE CONSEUVATIVE will endeavor to
visit Owensboro next autumn. Mean
time a stover-saving machine must be
perfected and put in the market which
will be within the financial reach of
every farmer and workable by a man
and 0110 horse. This machine is de
manded in Iowa , Illinois , Ohio , Indiana ,
Missouri , Kansas and Nebraska. It will
sell , if strongly and durably made , for
about one hundred and fifty dollars , and
handle from four to eight tons of
stalks in ten hours.
LATEST J' OCLAI\IATION OF POP
ULISM.
The Kansas City Star has given very
full and perfectly impartial reports of
the proceedings of the National Execu
tive Committee meeting of the populist
party of the United States which has
just adjourned.
That committee seems to have been
in the middle of the road very strictly
and to have marched very straightly.
In closing its address to the voters of the
American republic it declares :
"Should the national convention of
1900 be controlled in the interest of 'fus
ion , ' the straight delegations shall leave
said convention and join the contesting
delegations sent under this plan in a
straight convention , and there carry out
the will of the populists of the nation
without regard to the 'fusion' conven
tion. In this case the national organ
ization committee and the several
state , district , county and precinct
committees organized under this plan
shall bo recognized as the only com
mittees having any authority in the af
fairs of the people's party. If it should
so occur that the national committee
fail to issue a call for a national people's
party convention within due time in the
discretion of the national organization
committee , said organization committee
shall then proceed to issue a cell for a
national convention. We offer this
plan of action knowing that it will ( first )
show to every populist that wo are wil
ling to remain in good fellowship with
our 'fusion' brethren , with whom , we
have differed in the past in accepting
distasteful allegiance with the enemies
of the people's party ; provided they will ,
with us , stand squarely on the original
principles of the party and the line of
action intended by its founders , who de
clared in Omaha in 1892 that the two
old parties were jointly responsible
for the miseries of the people and
the unjust legislation which oppressed
them ; ( second ) if they refuse to do
so , that we wish them to know that
wo can go with them no further , pre
ferring to adhere to the grand principles
of untainted populism than to traffic in
'AiosQ pacrod principles for personal or
political advancement and gain.
"Wo share the humiliation of the pop
ulist voters who have found themselves
in the past forced to vote for candidates
not in sympathy with each demand of
the people's party platform , and urge
them to diligently work in the future to
avert any repetition of such complica-
cations. Wo recommend that an earnest -
nest effort to carry out the request for
the referendum vote asked for by the
Cincinnati convention bo made so that
the fullest expression on the question
may bo obtained. In order that states
using the national precinct referendum
club systems of party government maybe
bo made most effective wo recommend
that these clubs bo prepared to vote on
national candidates and other questions
between October 1 , 1899 , and January
1 , 1900 , and send tabulated vote of sanio
by states to the Honorable Milton Park ,
chairman national organization com
mittee , Dallas , Texas , who as soon as
practicable shall certify national re
sults of the same to the public. "
There seems to be more confusion
than "fusion" prevailing among those
patriotic populists and THE CONSERVA
TIVE calls upon ox-Senator William Vin
cent Allen to take charge of the
exigencies now as he did of the St.
Louis convention in 1890 and show the
plain people how to run a party.
Only six weeks
SILVEK SUCCESS.
ngoor thereabouts ,
the Silver Smelter Trust was formed.
Denver , Omaha , and all the other smel
ters , became one smelter in the white
metal trust.
Since then the avoiigomout of the
crime of 1878 has commenced. Stricken
silver is being revenged by as game and
gallant a trust as ever leagued to right a
great wrong.
Already silver has been put up four
cents an ounce. The price is still soar
ing. In 1892 the rise of silver was the
one elevating topic of Bryanarchy. To
put up silver was the one panacea for
all pecuniary ills. And the Smelter
Trust is doing the blessed thing that
Bryan then prayed for , quartette's of
populists then sang for and the silver
syndicate then paid for.
And now Bryan is howling for still
higher-priced silver , its free coinage at
sixteen-to-ouo , and snapping and snarl
ing at the Silver Smelter Trust , which
also wants free coinage at sixteen-to-ono
and has done more to raise the price of
silver since March 1 than all the orators
and populists in the world have done with
all their weary months of speech-mak
ing. Here they are for high silver and
against the trust which makes high
silver against all trusts and for higher
prices.