Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-04-03


horse wear ont prematurely by this excess
of jaw work in grinding hard corn, but the
mill often barely cracks the kernels, and
only the moiety of the nourishment in the
grain is extracted in its passage through
the alimentary canal. While the musou-
lar labor of grinding SO much grain in the
lifetime of a horse is considerable, the loss
10 food consumed is far greater than the
market value of the animal, by its not be-
ing fully digested. The loss Of feeding
ungrouud corn to oxen, COWS and hogs is
generally more than in feeding horses.
RARE CROPS. :.
An experienced and practical writer to
the Charleston Courier, after warmly re-
commencing the abundant culture of the
cereals and roots, urges the planting, both
for use and sale, of fax, hemp, mustard
and cayenne pepper. Read what he says :
Fyag, (Linum Usitatissimum.) This
species succeeds we'll wherever it is planted
but is, think, better adapted to the
upper country than the seaboard. 1t is
cultivated for its bark, or covering of its
stalk, and its seed. The most proper soil
is deep free loan, not too much charged
with moisture, or too dry-the ground must
be we'll pulverized and the seeds sown
broadcast, early iu the season, the begin
ming of February is not too early, or the
10th of April too late. have seen an ex-
cellent crop of Flax produced from seeds
sown 10 October. The waxen threads of
our shoemakers are all made Of our Flax
our best sewing thread is produced from it..
Our linen shirts and sheeting are all the
products of this plant. Our liuseed oil is
pressed from the seeds. You cannot paint
your houses without this oil. The plants
are pulled up by hand when nearly matured.
The mode of preparing the Flax-the Flax
brake and the Flax heckle-will be des-
oribed at future time. You can easily
have all the machinery made on your own
plantations, at the cost of few dollars.
Hemp, (Cannabis Satirea.) The best
soil for the eproduotion of Hemp is Of a deep
black vegetable texture. Sow broadcast
and cover lightly. The mode Of preparing
the Hemp is generally understood among
the planters. The process is neither diff
cult or expensive. The early part Of April
is the time for sowing the seed. Your bale
rope and the cordsge for shipping is the
production Of this plant.
Mustard, (Sinapis Migra and Sualba.) }
There is no necessity that our ships should
expose themselves to the danger Of capture
in order to supply us with Mustard. Tbs
plant grows as we'll with us as in an, part
of the world. Sow in a rich soil; one
fourth of a peck of seed, either the com.
moo or the white, per acre. The sowing
ought to have been done in March, but it
is not too late in the first week of April
Make your own Mustard, and above all be
prepared to furnish our army with this ne.
cessary condiment and provide supplies for
our market A small bottle of Mustard,
the ingredients of which cost few cents,
and was never higher than twenty-five cents,
is now sold by our grocers at one dollar per
bottle
Cayenne Pepper, (Capsicun'.) The
Pepper of commerce, (piper nisrum) be-
longs to the Tropics, and none of its forty
three species, including the Betel plant,
so generally chewed by the Southern Asiat.
les, can be successfully cultivated iu our
country, but we have eighteen species OF
capsioum now cultivated sparingly in our
gardens, all of which produce Pepper su-
perior to our Black Pepper, and decidedly
more wholesome. The small Bird Pepper
&C. baccatum) is used in preparing the ar
tcle commonly known as Cayenne Pepper,
in the liquid state. 1t is pounded and
mixed with salt. I have used it for thirty
years, prepared in my own family, both in
liquid aud dried state 1t is considered
in the army as essential to the health of the
soldier. Mr. Jones, Of our city, scien-
ti6c gardener and public beuefactor, in pre-.
pairing compressed meat for the army, uses
the dried Bird Pepper. "The low shrubs
with an oval red berry, more sharp and
biting than any of the Others" (capsicum
frestesceus and G. minimum, "furnish the
Cayenne Pepper of the shops" The ripe
pods are dried in the sun and then in an
oven after bread is baked in an earthen or
stone pot, with -four between the strata of
pods. When quite dry they are cleaned
from the -four, and beaten or ground to
fine powder. To every ounce of this a
pound of wheat -four is added, and it is
made into small cakes with leaven these
are baked, cut into small pieces, baked a
gain that they may be as dry and hard as
biscuit, and then are beaten into powder
and sifted. 1t is then fit for use as Pep
per, or for being packed up in a compressed
state, and so as to exclude air, for exporta-
ton. (Loudon.) In this way our army
can easily be supplied with an admirable
and wholesome condiment.
Corn CReP.-In view of the present
condition of affairs, and what they must
continue to be, l may be excused for pre-
senting for your consideration view of the
subject which l deem of much Importance,
and which I have not yet seen presented.
The Constitution of the Ccufederacy, and
that of the State of Georgia, both allow
that private property may be taken for pub
llc use, upon the tender of reasonable COM
pensatiou. Now, the Commissary Depart
ment Of the army must be supplied, if eve