535-03 Page 140laving out roads and otherwise de- pan be let away as readily. ;ember, and viceversa during both then mixture is then put into a
iBriC s From Old ��1"Y1 velopmg the village. engine room the same servant is tests. The diet in the one lase box Intowhich steam is injected
i 544..ii Barn �',�% �� "As settlers, attracted by the at. hand furnishing an abundant was hay, bran and turnips• in he Erom bneath. When sufficiently
((( fertile land and the timber, found supply for a 10-horse power en• other, corn alone at first to the ex- dampen d the mass is left unmol
'�T f1 / their way to this section of Dere- sine, with a 16-bor8e power boiler, tent of 50 lbs. per day, then a re ccted t two or three hours be,
Usedt® Repair ■ _hurch 1 / ham Township, they needed, above which by the aid of a belt con• duction to an average of 30 lbs. per fore feeding. Last winter Mr. Till -
AG iwi+ V 4 ( all, axes. Therefore, says Mrs. netts with the barn and cuts all day after 10 days, hay and bran be-, son fed his cows about 30 lbs. '
1521 lie f6rirfeH a artherah with Nancy VanNornran Dresser, 'the fodder and steams the same ' ing then added. The results during, each of silage alone for the
By BTELLg MOTT 1 p P daughter of Benjamin VanNorman, for all the stock, cutting the corn' both alternations were the same— morning teal, Approaching mid-'
When the managers of the Nor- George Tillson, the founder of the g for ensilage, ... . 4
wick United church bggna to plan town of Tillsonburg, a skilled pat- her father with Mr. Leavitt, built g etc., etc. corn taken greedily et first, a tic- day they were fed the as the
the renovation of their church fern - maker of Massachusetts, two axe factories. Mr. Harvey Ho- FISH POND mg of If, emaciation and a reduc-'i food; the evening meal was the
building this year, they realized,, whom he had met in Buffalo, and Ban was associated with them in tion in the quantity of milk. The same as the morning; on the Sab-
Hiram Capron, one of the three this venture, which provided work "The reservoir also furnishes an average of milk per cow per dayl, bath they got hay.
-that they must find some brick) founders of the Town of Paris, who ,for a goodly number of men and abundant supply for a beautiful during the latter part of the alter- "The store cattle were fed the i
that would match that of the edl/� : fish pond, where the depth of the mating periods, from those fed onii
ice they were to repair. The came from Rochester with some supplied the local demands of a ,I same way only with less meal, and
were told that in Tillsonburg t` Z money to invest. hamlet of sixty, now known as water may be gauged at will. ensilaged corn was 28 lbs. that the fattening cattle as well with
They soon had a new blast fur- Dereham Forge. The ore for the This, Mr. Tillson has recently Prom those fed on. turnins. 35 lh, considerably more meal. These
white brick Tillson barns were L. stocked with 500 young, speckled
ing dismantled and since the nace running and laid a firm axes was brought from Middleton. g• P TTie percentage of cream differs latter sold at good weights at six 1
original church brick had come foundation for the great business "The village was surveyed in 18.1 trou_, which he says are doinT but little, while the percentage of cents a pound live weight during'
that later, for years, supplied 37 by..Jessa-P:. Ball, assisted by well. They are fed mainly on. butter was about one.third more is the. present season. Last season 16
from Tillsonburg, they at once western Upper Canada with iron George Tillson and Mr. Fawcett, coarse meats secured from the favor of the turnips, and of a bet-
took
of corn were harvested per
took steps to negotiate for some; ware and castings of all kinds. and was named Tilsonburg. Mr. ,butcher and cut somewhat fine. ter appearance and quality. Any acre. It had been drilled thinly in
.I of the brick from these urns. It In 1R'L5, however, George Tillson Fawcett gives a vivid description He purposes utilizing another refuse ensilage removed from the rows 30" apart and cultivated. The
proved to be a perfect match. and Hiram Capron had sold out of the rough appearance of the gorge lower down and more cap- mangers during the test was taken - r
By pure coincidence, the writer., their interests m the firm to Jo- country, of pines broken after a acious, no wfilled with unsightly greedily by other Cattle. corn was cut when the ear began
recently was looking through some seph VanNorman and his son, Ben. storm, and of the difficulties el debris, for a similar purpose. "Since large sections of the coup-' to form or when in silk. The cost
copies of an old periodical, "Stock I'm
in, who in 1829 had placed the survival. Mr. Ball declared that "E. D. Tillson, son of George try ,will not profitably produce Wyss of production, harvesting and put.
•1 Raisers' Journal," dated 1883, and management of he firm In the the width of the streets, especially Tillson, the New Englander who) nips that will produce fodder corn, ling into silo was $1.50 per ton.
} edited for some years by the late hands of Elijah Leonsrd and his Iof Broadway, was a cruel waste of pioneered in the iron industry ate, we would like to see an experi-
Professor Thomas Shaw, grand- son Lewis. hand, but the owner was decided '�Normandale and later bought 600i ment with hay, bran and ensilaged ,.y�+� _
uncle of Paul Moore and his broth • Benjamin VanNorman married in his views, and visitors to the acres where Tilsonburg now corn as opposed to hay and bran, r-/
i ers, and given by them to the Nor- George Tillson's daughter and one town today will admit that time ,stands, was born in 18'25 near.the 'grain added to both cases if need .i
with Pioneers Archives. In the of their daughters has told the Ibe. It seems incomprehensible to BIITTLR PRODUCER
has proven ]cis wisdom. The first 'town.of for hi . He commenced us why corn, very valuable as a Mr. Tillson thinks highly ,.,, en•'
July and August, 1883, numbers story of how the first modern cook I'll,lot that was sold on Broadway cost business for himself in 1897 when - butter producer i n September silage as a butter producer when,
was a story about E. fD.ounder
Tillson, One of Mrs. Benjamin VanNor• its purchaser one box (one dozen) 22 years of age, with the sole pos- should not be more so under cer. !fed as above, also as a food for
son of George Tillson, Founder of. man's daughters tells the story of of axes, which then retailed at session of one horse. He obtained tain circumstances in December." cattle fattening, as well as for or.
Tillsonburg, which included, how her grandfather, George Till- two) dollars a piece. at first a partial interest in a saw TILLSON SILO dinary store cattle. In the winter
among other features, several re- g g "'The initiative and energy dis- (mill and for a time cut and drew Turning to the Tillson experl-!of 1881-82 he made an loop :taut
erences to his brick making ac• son, helped her father to make 8
tivities the first modern cook stove, as=played by Edwin Tillson in estab- 'his own saw logs. In due time he ments, the editor writes: "The silo test Four store steers were fed
OLD FARM HOUSE follows: ltshfng flour and oatmeal mills, a became owner of a fine saw mill of E. D. Tillson, the best perhaps (during the season on ensilage only,
In describing the fine new house, "'Father knew that cook stoves sash, door, blinds and brush jac-I to which was added planing mills in the western part of Ontario, is no meal; 20 others were fed on
he had recently built, a reads: outght to be made to bake at the tory, the well known brick yard) and a sash and door factory. situated at the west side of the ensilage twice a day with a third
"The house erected of white brick bottom, but how was it to be donee etc., was in line with his father's "Ten ears ago he erected an barn, but not under the same root. (feed of the steamed preparation
of the most perfect finish _ and He went to Buffalo, Troy, Albany,
Pioneer efforts; and much more Y 6 It was built in 1881 of a cast of inclu" •g meal. The four looked as
than in most cases, the develop -oatmeal mill with a capacity of
manufactured by Mr Tillson, is New York, and to Zanesville and 22"o. The outside walls are o1 stone well as the others at the end of
perhaps the most perfect in the Cleveland to see if other stove ment of the thriving town of Til-'.1,0 barrels per day, coats, the thick end plastered with water the term, though they had not been
sonbur has been due to the ef- ,1,000 bushels per day of oats, the lime as is also the floor. The object tested by weighing.
completeness and economy of its makers had solved the problem. g PP here is twofold, to keep out water
internal arrangements of any farm Disheartened, he came home. How. forts and generosity of the family Product of which is mostly chi Five
"This result is not quite in.
o4 the skilled iron worker who to the Eastern provinces. Five and to admit b uniform pressure,
house in Ontario" ever, at dawn, one morning, the ears ago he erected a camas) agreement with Professor Brown's
' In describing the water supply 'solution came to him; flues under founded the town. mill with a capacity of 100 bar- which bed be secured from an report on feeding mllch cows. At
"Tilsonburg (spelled with one U, P y unplumbed or unsmoothed well. Tillson's the took the food read
for the farm, it continues: "In the the oven. George Tillson made the g P reds per day, the product of which The silo is oblong In shape and y '
.I house In every room the same etc- •pattern for him, and the first mod- bald th editor of "Stock Raiser's is mostly shipped to the United divided into two compartments, ily all along and did well. A t
r; men, is found. On turning a tap ern cook stove was cast at Nor- Journal" in. 1883. "is beautifully, States. For a number of years he each 97' by 23' 6", separated by a Guelph voracity was followed by
there is a rush of cold water. Turn mandale, the work of Benjamin we might say aimost romantieal-I loathing and emaciation in as short
another beside it and you have a VanNorman and George Tillson." 1S, situated on an undulating, san-'has been successful] running a 13" brick wall, but which Mr. Till -
flow g a period as 10 days. At Tillson's
flow of warm. Due s Ericson's water "When George Tillson sold his ti eminence, being a leading eta- brickyard and latterly in Gong on son says should be 1th as it has the animals were store steers and
caloric engines which
s the water interest in thecameNormandale
great furnace lion t. Brantford N )Non Can) tion with his son is cart ying on sprung somewhat 1n the Pilling of at Guelph mllch cows. Can it be
g p ' the manufacture of of cry. He• the Pirst compartment.
In the house, which is warmed by -in 1825 he became greatly inter 'and Pt. B. Railway, and on Cana- p that the difference in part may be
this same element." Note. This "Rated In reports of good bog ore (ja Southern and Air Lines. towns 600 acres within the torpor With 6wo compartments, one Bide accounted for in the way in which
"farm" house was bought in 1929 in Middleton township. The Otter Through a deep ravine on its bor-.ation, inherited from his .father,' can be Yllled rapidly end closed) the food was kept?"
by the late Dr. C. V. Corless and :,Creek flowed through it down to der runs the Otter Creek, a stream 1300 of which he farms himself: On at once end a less portion of corn "Conclusions from the Tillson
is now kno n as Coniston Place. 'Lake Erie. This he explored from of considerable volume. Fringes of this he has erecter) under his own': is exposed at one time to the air: Experiment" were: _
The Jour 1 continues: "For a its moult, where Port Burwell now straggling pines, the sole survivors supervision 25 miles of fence, most- A passageway 23ih' by 5%" run _
number of ears, Mr. Tillson has ',$lands to the hamlet of Otterville.' of a host of fallen comrades, adorn ly board. Moreover, no-one in On-• entirely across one cad ]eflding by "1. Green fodder may be per.
been successfully running a brick- That the Otter was a sizable the hills in the distance, and give tario is more progressive in testing' an inclined uppward slope with n erio preserved for an mdefWte
modern methods of feeding stock' cement floor to the open apace in period without losing any of Its
i yard and ,latterly In conjunction ,stream at that time, and much an air of solemn granduer to the m shown t his f feeding stock
it the shed around which the feeding valuable properties.
with his son is carrying on the, later, especially in the spring, is outward view of the town, s sho n corn in a silo and test stables are placed. A door open)
manufacture of pottery. He has al- shown by the fact that in 185U an "The farm and beautiful new preserving from this passage Into each com• "2. Fodder thus preserved may
e so acted the part of builder and, American company from Tons-. residence (unique in itself as a 'ng the ensilage on his cows." • p g be utilized as a milk and butter
p y q partment of the silo. When the silo
e contractor, having in this capacity 'wanda bought pine timber in the. farm dwelling) of E. D. Tillson, Some 70 years ago, during 1881-I was filled each door opening intol,producer, as an element in fatten-
d erected most of the stores in the, 'neighborhood of Tilsonburg and from whose family the town takes 82, the value of ensilage as a fed-. the passage was close as followst� ing stock and as an important
,t town where the highest honors its during the spring freshets floated its name, is on the immediate) der for cows as compared with the It was boarded with double boa tel-I factor in feeding store cattle.
citizens can give have more than .it down to Lake Erie, in order to outskirts and yet within the corp-1 Swedish turnip was being scienti- ing with a space between, a few "3. One acre of green corn thus
- once been bestowed upon him, in raft it to the United States. oration. The owner cut and menu -I fically investigated at the Ontario inches filled with sawdust. The in. preserved will feed three cows,
which capacity he projected and .. "It was in March, 1825 that Mr. fectured the crowded pines that, Agricultural College under the sup-( side boarding was dry matchad two out of three feeds per day, for
had constructed a system of water. Tillson set out on his trip up the grew upon it, made them intop ervisi°n of Professor Brown. E. D. Inch, and that was covered with the six months of winter at a cost'
works such as very few places of :Otter, and when he and his corn- 'lumber had the 4tumps removed Tillson was also trying out the en- tarred paper or roofinfelt, Mr. of $24 for producing and harvest•
the size are favored' with" ' panions camped one night, on the and transformed the whole into' silage on his farm at Tillsonburg. Tillson'a own original idea. T h ing, at least In some localities.
FARMERS' JOURNAL - The editor of "Stock Raiser's Jour-
site of the present town of Tilson- That pleasing scene of quiet beauty height of the silo is 10' below the
The "Stock Raisers' Journal, ". burg they cut down a tree, want snd utility that it now, presents.; nal" reports as follows on these surface and 4' above to be Wised y
)which began publication in Se experiments: 8' more b a brick wall of leaser
e P' ' ing the branches for their bed and I "The entire farm, some 300- Y Y
tember, 1882, was issued month] One object of the experiment at thickness. Its capacity then will be
- b the Thorley Horse and Cattle the wood for a fire. The story goes acres, hits been underdreined by; The Farm (at Guelph) wall td as• y --
f y y that the tree lodged as it fell and Air. Tillson. The file drains are 330 tons including the passage way. r _�y,,,. � r. ,t
Food Company in Hamilton, and g certain whether green corn could .� �, it i f _ J/ f7 )
, that the New Englander thought laid two rods apart and three and be reserved In an ordinary root "As soon as it is filled," contin- T�"� � ^ldsow'a
•,mailed to subscribers at 20 cents p lino a' this an unfavorable sign, but that a half feet deep. Many of them, cellar for an Indefinite time with-, uses the editor of 'Stock Raisers' fen .r
_!a year fit was soon raised s $1I', he persevered until it fell clear. especially the leading ones are in out losing any of its valuable prop- Journal,' "the Tillson silo is eov- H a
a year). Each of the early a col i .However, he bought six hundred the form of boxes made of 2" pine) eties. Proof was found that It can, a red with leaves of 2" >az°Pis ai
to was made up of eight, three m]- acres of land, includingthis cam lank. These are gathered to a planks ;` aq pue •a
umn, fine) P• p pproviding the wall inside is per- about 5' wide, Planed and glee 1 ,e finely -printed pages. 1'l" by , iris place and proceeded to build . head at a suitable place, from feet) smooth, as a rough wall re• P r h c 'teauil
id 8t,�s", and was packed with inter- a home to which he brou ht his )'which reservoir i y g d grooved with 2ys feet of earth
•idS. 8% ng short articles for farm^rs. g pees convey the vents that uniformity of compres- rbbove them. This width is chosen s ,y, Paeu,7 ui
;d In ng the editor (Mr. Shaw badll family from Normandale the next) Waters to many places in and sion so necessary to the preserva-r stl that when uncovering, one leaf ;amsnq lie
t- not yet taken over) 'had visited Year. It was upon this land that around "the barnyard, where at lion of fodder. craan be removed at a time making
rl ` '- 1.
the town grew up. every desired point troughs are ".T h e root cellar chosen (at b: are a slice of sufficient width to DI$Y q Tillsonburg and in his July and BLOOMERY FORGE laced, into which on the turning Guelph) stands halt under ground, A a
T � "Wrought iron at this time was : of a tap a stream of water an is 9' dea 18' wide and 25' lon bie cut at one time by a hay knife c ' ieivyl°s •vI
'August numbers featured the Till- R g• fo r feeding. This slice will last 60 I y se
son farm and its owner. selling at a shilling a pound, and .inch in volume, can be thrown at This was filled with green corn cut he gad of cattle for about 10 days at d 4)e s
E. D. Tillson was the son of George Tillson and Benjamin Van -(',any season of the year; cool in the 28th and 29th of September, I vo
George Tillson, whose ventures ln- Norman decided to erect a forger. summer and in that mild climate 29i/a tons, at a cost of harvesting,) 80 lbs. per day; 220 tons fed at ;: :;;o a8a�uei
the above rate will last 40 cows will�, t w aaugt
,::+in winter if the tap is left par- drawing, cutting and filling of' be
; six month. This amount three
Ioogos
e the iron business were Sentinel.
Ito manufacture bar iron. 'They' 'tially open the water in the $23.75, or less than $1 per ton. This he .sufficient for two of th.. three �j " •, y3 iaf
> eel in a story In the Sentinel- b npn1egrimBloo saw mill to fur in eh « trough will never freeze. This duti• was at once covered with planed[ teed3', each day, The third feed asn<
t Review in 1937, briefly as follows: u a .. t goeau
"In 1815, John Mason, an Eng- materials for necessary buildfn y, 'ful servant is conveyed into the 2" plank overlapped by inch boards consi sts of steamed food, that is,9 uo Pa POP!
Tishman, came to Normandale, on When this work was well started) .�creamaty., where cream. can be and compressed with 600 lbs. of dry corn stalks and good wheat or 3 " trodjl sot
Lake Erie, and on the site of a iron began to be brou ht from kept sweet. over Sabbath during stone to every superficial square oaten straw cut fine In equal pro- Lied totu]
;Pottery g g :the hottest summer, or if need be yard. The silo was opened Nov. 1 �1_.iq p3e ,ter that had been running for England as ballast and the rice and emptied y portion Is with meal added, quantity °q
'several years, began working the�i fell to six cents o p the a mdch longer period. p' d b Jan. 1. and 0alit determined by the ob. •pue seas SPUR. (pence.) a pound, ,The test was made with mllch q Y
bog iron of Charlotteville Town- ,so that the enterprise never paid, 4 "In a large wooden trough where cows, the ensilage bein pitted ]act sa.!ight. °lqO ue
!the deep setting milk cans can be a6avrnof P
ship in Norfolk county. It would Mr. Tillson was in 1831 named against another green food, turnips .i] avo a q 7
,have been abandoned, however, If county commissioner of roads and 'placed, water can be turned on to and the feeding alternated, that lis 9 'rnew•e `"" "x v" � dt pang
Joseph Van Norman of Buffalo had hrid es and turned his attention to any desired depth in a few min- ,J �� 'alias Io40. -moa
the cows fed on corn during Nov- rr.u. 1
of come to the rescue in 1820. In g _ jutes, and by turning another tap ember were fed turnips during Dcc- at [e.ianas, ONJon
q7 uo; I,to; I