Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-10-10

HYGIENE RULES.-Never eat when
much fatigued wait until rested. Never
satsiust before you expect to engage in
any severe mental or physical exercise.
~ Never eat while in a passion, or when
under a great mental excitement, de-
pressing yor geleyating. Never eat just
before taking bath of any kind, or just
before re firing at night. Never eat be-
f''@t tw cen regular meals.
MANURE III. Porter, of Mississippi,
states that when only small quantity
9. of highly concentrated manure is avail
able the most economical way of usingi
is to steep it few days in just enough
water to work it into such consistency
that the greatest possible quantity will
stick, and roll the seeds in it and plant
-Imhila swat In the -Snuth- an acre-nf
cotton thus treated will be improved in
the yield ABOUT as much as the same
treated with commercial fertilizers in the
ordinary way.
TRAINING A HE1FER TO MmK.-Cows
usually become addicted to kicking when
heifers, from being MIXED by abusive
1Lmilkers. have never seen an old COW
become a kicker unless abused. Instead
osof COWS being averse to being MIXED
when giving large quantity, have
found it the reverse. When pasturage
is good, and cows come home at night
with udders distended with milk, they
seem grateful to have it removed. Milk
ing heifer for the first time requires
patience, for they will almost inevitably
kick. In such case put broad strap
around her body, just in front of the
udder, and buckle it, moderately tight.
andas soonas she gets quiet (for she may
dance around little at irst), take your
.. pail, sit down and 90 to milking, for she
is as helpless as kitten. Do not at
tempt to use rope instead of strap,
for it will not answer. This is much
better method than tying the legs, etc,
as it does not hurt the animal in the
least. few applications of the strap,
with plenty of patience and kindness, will
cure the most obstinate case.
SCALLAwAG SToCK.-It is not at all
uncommon to hear farmer declare that
there is no profit in keeping fine cattle !;
that it would not pay him to purchase
good shorthorn bull at say $500 where
with to improve his herd Let us see
I'm how thisthing figures mp. He raises ten
steers of what the drover denominates
the scallawag sort, and sells them at
three or four years old, or possibly he
feeds, them six years, when they realize
four cents per pound on 800 pounds
weight which is equal to S32 per head or
1920. 1t is safe to say that the cost of
these cattle will not be less than the
price received, so that there will be no
profit to the feeder, if there is no loss,
Another farmer raises ten grade short
horn steers, which at three years old are
sold at eight cents pound, and weigh
1,600 pounds. Their money value is
81 ,2S0.1 They may have cost S640 to
p feed which is double the cost of the
scallawags, and then there is a profit Of
S64O.s This will represent a small part
only of the gain made by the use of a
thoroughbred bull for at least he may
beexpected to sire 25 calves per annum
during six or seven years, and his SER
vices will thus be found worth at any
rate not less than $1,000 to $4,000 on
this basis. Here is nothing counted to
his credit but the simple profit on beef
alone, and this is based on the tangible
and stable foundation of market report
There is naught extenuated and naught
I, set down in hopes which may or may not
be realized. Some farmers have said
that this result is hopeless for them,
that they can not expect to gain one
9 , cent. per pound extra from drover for
'Ssa Setter quality of stock. 1t is true that
there are such farmers, and that they
say this, but it is strange if this is not
- prejudice born of want of energy and
- business tact. How can beef differ in
this respect from wool or pork, butter
or cheese, or corn or wheat, all of which
bring prices exactly in ratio with their
several qualities. Drovers who come
across such men will ''fool them to the
top of their bent" undoubtedly, and
will persuade them that good stock has
no more value than poor, if possible
: but it is hard to believe that in this age
of newspapers such farmer coul' be
found. 'It is naught, it is naught,
saith the buyer, but when he has gone
his way, then he boasteth ;" and drovers
are often such buyers, but it is farm
er's own fault if such buyer ever had
chance to boast over bargain of this
sort made with him.