Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-09-01
From the Columbus (Ga.) Democrat
"A Oh PTER ON TuRNfps.

hipS' says manyan old farmer! Have
not planted them thirty years Wen
how much doyo mike per acre?' cWhv
bless me, l only pint little cow pen
patch Just enough to keep the nigeers
IN green's. But on what do YOU feed
your milk cows, your sheep and vour
stock-hogs through The winter montbsq,
why the sheep shift pretty much for
themselves, the cows run in the range
until the feed gives out, and then we
give them little cotton seed Got.
ton seed! you might about as well feed
them on WOODEN rags; they feed them on
wooIen ragS; they are perfectly indipes-
tIbfe to the stomach, and the only nour.
lshment from them is the oil that they
contain, and then you rob your land Of
one OF It's best manurcs in thus misan.
plying your cotton seed, whereas, had
you planted one, two or three acres in
the hutabaga and Red top Turnip, your
table would be supplied with one Of the
heaithiest vegetables, your cattle would
be lat, your milk and butter would suffer
no dlmmutlon, either in quantity or quail
y, flom grass feeding, and your sheen
would be healthy and well clothed with
wool. The Rutabaga is the hest of all
the turnip tribe for stock it is the sweet.
est, and ranks next to the carrot, for its
nutritive quality. 1t is with this turn;p.
mat England makes her fine beef, her
tne mutton, and her fine wool, and posi-
bly, the very broadcloth on your back was
made through English turnips! Are YOU
aware OF the value of the turnip crop TO
England? 1t is more than tie entire cot
ton crop of the United States! But that
cant be possible, you say; yes, it is nos.
Sible, as proven bv the statistics of the
two countries. The fine milk and butter.
the fine fat cattle, and the fine m ton
and wool, which England produces thro'
her turnip crop, yields her o greater an
nual revenue than does the cotton crop,
weld to the United States. In England
nd in thenorthern States they are com.
pelied to house their turnips, to protect
hem from the winter frosts. Here. Ia
the South, we have not this trouble, but
can pull them from the field, from time
10 time, as we wish to feed them, com.
mencing in September and continuing
through the winter until April. Behold
then the advantages of the South, even
over England, in the production of wool,
and ifyou, Farmers, will adopt the meth
cd of England, of penning your sheep,
md feeding with cut turnips through the
winter, no doubt your mutton would be
as fine, your fleeces as heavy, and another
important and profitable branch of Aeri-
culture would thereby be opened to our
peop'e with dr. wing a potion of labor
and capital that now goes to the over
production of cotton!--- Wake up, Farm
ers, to your own and your counrys,s
interest,
BLIND BRIDES. Eyes, use your
thinking powers friends. They were Civ
en- you to use, and not abuse. Blind
brides! Truly named. surely. Art new.
er invented amore fatal thing to the eyes
of horses than when she devised this
plan of depriving the horses of what Ma.
ture intended he should enjoy. But.
| says one, how are binders injurious to the
horse? Because gather dirt and heat
around the eve. Dirt iriitates the eve
and heat produces information. These
brides so eptrammel the eyes of the
horse that he is compelled to be constant
| ly straining them to see his way. The
over-exertion of the nerve brings on dis
ease. Eyes were not made in vain
Hsd they been needless, the Creator
would not have located them in the head
They were placed on the corner of the
head that he might have the advantage
of looking ip different directions. Men,
in observation-disclosures of their wisdom, con-
cluded that horses had too much sight,
and they wished to curtail it; hence, the
origin of blind brides and diseased eyes
are inseparably connected. Custom
hoodwinks the sense Of men as much
as blind brides do the vision Of horses"
HEAVY PENALTY. The law in Connec-
ticut against selling spurious liquors, inn
! ! poses sG;.sa nf S10 for the first offence.
$50 for the second, and SO double for ey.
e,y offence OF which heshall be convicted,
One Mr. Wood has As cases pending
against him, the last Of which, ii found
guilty sabiects him to q penalty Of $I14,-
49o.9s2.64s.3e .3eo.--- Char, dfefcNry.
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