Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-11-29
LIBERTY COUNTY, GA.

Yours, respectfully,
W. JONES.
LIBERTY COUNTY, GA
Our correspondent has favored US with
sample Of the tea prepared by him. In ap
pesrance, fragrance and flavor, it precisely
resembles fine article of Chinese Black
Tea. If our plantations can produce tea as
finely favored as this, with as little trouble
as Mr. Jones states is required in the pro-
cess, it is the most profitable crop We can
grow. In conversation with him, another
point vas elected, to wit that when tea is
raised in localities near the coast, when the
plants are once established, nearly all the
labor comes during the healthy season of
the year, and after gathering, the planter
can retire, and spend most of the summer
in more healthy locality
Southern Cultirator
SCIENTIFIC METHOD OF CURING HAY
1t has been affirmed by eminent agricul-
turists, that hay can be safely deposited in
the NOW in semi green state, and come
out green, fragrant and exceedingly palata-
bic for stock, by sprinkling upon each load
from four to six quarts of air Stacked lme.
The philosophy Of it lies in the chemical
fact that lime is powerful absorbent The
Rev. E Willis, of Rockfort, Illinois, tested
this process last season, during the unpro-
pitious weather for hay making. Finding
it would be impossible to save the hay by
outdoor exposure, he carted it into his barn
in heavy, green condition. He sifted the
lime upon it, and it cured handsomely, and
came out this spring as inviting as flowers
pressed in an herbarium His horses and
stock devoured it greedily, and preferred it
to the best sun-cured hay.
This is valuable "chip" of knowledge
for farmers. Necessity often compeIs them
to choose between them the alternative of
leaving out in dreuching rain few loads
of half hay, thereby spelling it, or
'hurrying it into the barn with right smart
chance of its heating and moulding. Lime
will absorb all the vegetable moisture and
save the hay; while sat gathers moisture
and fails in many cases to preserve it
WANTS AN EXPLANATIoN-Ac CORES
pondent of the Hartford Post, writing from
Collinsville, says:
81 observed notice in one of the papers
recently of the benefit Of driving nails into
fruit trees to increase the supply of fruit.
1t has long been claimed by some, that old
scytheo, sickles, horse shoes, &c hung on
the limbs of trees, would increase their fer
tility; by others it has been secuted as
surerstitious notion The writer will state
one circumstance which came under his
personal observation that is worth recording:
"Mr G. H. Nearing, of this place, had
thrifty growing apple tree from nursery
set out in his garden, on one of the limbs
of which was the label attached to small
wire, which he neglected to take off, and
soon the wire was entirely imbedded in the
bark. The next year the limb was loaded
so heavily that it was necessary to prop it
up, while there was not an apple on any 9TH
er part of the tree Can some one of our
pomological friends explain the phenome.
ma ?"
GRAPE VINES -Prune as soon as the
leaves are off - this is when to prune.-
How to prune will depend upon the vine
and the PERSONS knowledge of its manner
of growth We can only give general di.
rections Look at your vine, now that it is
divested of leaves. All that is seen of the
wood of the present years growth, has
borne and done its duty. The buds upon
the canes, that look go Insignificant, are to
throw out vigorous shoots and bear fruit
If all the buds are left, there will be many
weak shoots and little fruit. If this years
shoots are cut back to two or three buds,
these remaining buds will push out Vigor-
Gus shoots and produce much better than if
the vine had been allowed to run Wild
Have this in mind whenever the vine is
! pruned - the buds and not tho wood now
on the vine, are to produce the fruit