Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-07-29

Give Ii back 10 the gvcr-tNe anu. boys, tlc lana.
There's bank like the earth 10 deposit your labor
The you deposit the more you shall have. ,
Ii there's than give your neighhof,
And yor shall be dear to the true and the brave.
Give me the spade our ancestors glory,
That fashlon'd the field from the bleak, barren moor,
Let speak of its praise with ballad and story,
While tits frightened with labor, not arnsied WIN gore
twas the sword that won our best battle,
Created commerce and extended our trade,
Gave fbod 10 our wives, children and CATTLE
But the queen of ali wcaponS-thc spade boys the spade
Give me the spade; there's n magic about it,
That tuns the black soil into bright, shining gold
What would fathers have done, boys without Il,
When the land lay all bare and the north winds blew cold
Where the tall forests Stood and the wild beasts were yelling
Where stout hearted ancestors shrank back afraid,
The wleatsack Is raIscd and mankind. claim dwelling,
Then urah for frendhe spade boys, the spade
THE FARMER VS. THE PRoFEss1oNs.-I
take some credit to myself, believing that m
humble efusion of mine has called from the
flowing pen of I'D. L." the graceful essays he
has lately addressed to the "young men of the
country" on the superior advantages of far
mers profession over what are termed 'the
learned professions" His reasoning is as
cogent as his words are pleasant to the ear.
The subject is very important one and we'll
deserves the attention and reflection of our
young friends. If they could be made to feel
that the pursuit.was professional science and
not mere mechanical drudgery, how much
more happiness, real comfort and honorable
content there would be among that class OF
our fellow citizens who generally prefer to
starve in a garret as literary men, or dissipase
the golden days ofyouth in luxurious disquiet
and elegant misery as gentlemen of leisure,
than be the strong buoyant tiller of the soil
searching the great principles of natural
10 lrnoGt of thair fol1nu- NOR
daily increasing their stores of health and
honest wealth, learning the deep mysteries OF
nature and forming a better conception OF the
wonderful laws Of nature as pre-ordered by
natures God, and thus enjoying mentally and
physically their early manhood in all robust
vitality to the highest degree Of rational and
intellectual pleasure, feeling day by day more
forcibly the truth of the aphorism.
God made the country, Nan made the town.
THE Poor FARMER.-His work lies before
the world. Every passer can lock upon it
and record his judgment. There are his
house, his barn, his out-buildings his imple-
ments, his horses and cattle If he is poor
farmer it will be seen in all these. His very
house-yard and barn-yard speak of his want
of industry and thrift in clear language. Yet
there is no one more difficult to instruct or
reform than the man who is determined to
pursue his own wretched course, in the face of
all his own neighbors and the whole commu-
nifty. If he is spoken to ON the subject, he re-
plies that he thinks his mode Of managing bis
farm the best; he was farmer bred, his
father farmer before him; and he has moth
ing to learn from the jim-cracks course of
modern days, by which, though the land may
yield more the cost in making it do so is far
more than what he gains. AS to his stock; he
is opposed to stuffng cattle and producing
diseases. As to his implements, when they are
worn out he may think about getting others,
but sees no use in throwing away tools that
answer well enough. AS to his house and
garden, they are the same his father had, and
if they were good enough for his father, what
right has he to complain?
Germantown Telegraph.
WEEvILs IN GRANARIEs.-Some years
since, accident discovered to q French farmer
very simple and efficient method of pre-
venting, or rather destroying, this insiduous
pest in corn and grain houses.
Happening to deposit, in one corner of a
building in which there was stored quantity
of grain, few sheep skins from which the
wool had not been pulled, he found, upon ex-
amining them few days after, that they
were literally covered with dead weevils.-
The experiment was repeated, and always
with the same result.
On stirring the corn, (wheat, probably) he
was surprised to find, that although previous
ly infested to degree that forbade all hope
of saving it from immediate destruction by
this pertinacious foe, not single insect was
to be found among it. The experiment is
certainly worth trying. What killed the
weevils, whether the fatty matter on the skim,
or something else, we have not been able to
learn. AT any rate, let us try the woodchuck
skins.-M E. Farmer.
WEEDs-One of the greatest nuisances in
farming is the way that weeds are encouraged
and projected in the crooks and vicinity Of
fences-from which place their seeds are
scattered over the surrounding lands. The
extent to which seed is carried by high winds
proves that one negligent farmer may annoy
hundreds Of farms by failing to exterminate
the foul herbagc Could the evils be concen-
trated on the farm which nurses the weeds,
the consequences would be proper punish
mcnt for his carelessness and criminality-
criminal is any man WHO nurtures nuisances
that thus injure the surrounding farmers.
The fellow who keeps u bulldog that annoys
if not bites the passing travellers, may be
reached by the law that is powerless to repress
the injury occasioned to his neighbors by the
nurseries of foul weeds which are harbored
about his premiSes-especially in the vicinity
Of his fences.
FIREpRooF WASH FOR SHISGLEs.-.A wash
of lime, salt, and fine sand or wood
ashes, put on in the ordinary way Of white
washing, renders the roof fifty per cent. more
secure against taking fire from falling cinders,
in case Of fire in the vicinity. 1t pays the ex-
pense hundred fold in its preserving inAu-
ence against the weather. The older and
more weathcr-beatcn the shingles, the more
benefit derived. Such shingles generally be-
come more or less warped, rough, and crack
ed; the application of the wash, by wetting
the upper surface, restores them at once to
their original or first form, thereby closing up
the space between the shingles, and the lime
and sand, by filling up the cracks and pores
i'll the shingle itself, prevents its warping.
WolsrII NOTINt;-Thc season for housing
the Irish potato will soon be upon Us. When
the tops begin to ,lic--dig. Don't expose
them to the sun let them dry in the shade.
Put them i'll a cellar, or cool place, and dust
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