Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-11-12
Agrifnltnral department.
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LIVE AT HOME.

Correct principles of political economy de-
mand diversity of labor and industries, in
order that a people be prosperous. Practi-
cally, the Southern people have never only re-
Gently learned this fact. A change of food is
not only palatable, but absolutely necessary
to health and strength to the bodies of ami
mails and to the bodies and minds Of men.
Simple bread and meat may be palatable for
short time; but after time this ceases to
exist, and the most nutritive food fails to
support the body as it should do. 1t will kill
horse in a short time, to feed him upon corn
and nothing else. He Twill lose his appetite
for corn, and eat up the logs or planks of his
stable in preference to it. What is true in
physiology, is true in political economy. No
people can become great and powerful,
who engage in nothing but agricultural pur-
suits Much less can people become great
who engage in producing nothing but corn
and cotton. In the South, and especially in
the upper sections of the State of South Car
olina, nature has been lavish with her gifts.
In this section of the country, almost every
thing that grows in the edges of tropical
cline fourishes and it is an inviting field for
the manufacturer.
Now, what we mean by living at home, is
not that every body must live on corn. bread
and bacon for breakfast, and bacon and corn
bread for dinner, and back to corn bread and
bacon for supper. This is kind of living
that is by no means palatable, and it is ex.
ceedingly extravagant Our country is ad-
mirably adapted to the growth Of the finest
fruits. Every farmer in York county can,
with but little labor and with less expense,
produce fruits of the most luscious varieties to
supply his family for nine or ten months in
the year. In fact, every family might have
fruit-green fruit, not dried fruit-the whole
year. Apples can easily be kept in our
county until strawberries come. Were this
done, we would be not only healthier and
wealthier people, but a better people morally.
What connection there is between what a
man eats and the development of his moral
nature, we do not propose, at this time, to
show; but sure it is, there is a connection
Bad whisky seems to put the devil in man.
No man will deny this. A man drunk on
whisky is very different man from what he
is when drunk on good wine. Bread and
meat are good things in their place. No man
can ever be truly great and good man, who
fills his stomach with nothing but coarse bread
and fried meat. Such a man will be coarse
in BODY and coarse in mind and manners.
Annually, there are shipped to our country,
thousands of dollars worth of what are called
luxuries. They are not, however, luxuries.
Peaches and apples ought not to be regarded
in this cline as luxuries. We might raise all
these things, or most of them, and save the
money that is spent in purchasing them. In
the South, we might live more comfortable
than we do, and yet buy less. 1t really looks
like folly in US to send North for peach scions
and watermelon seed. Nobody would think
man sane who would send to South Carroll
na for orange scions to plant in Florida.
Within the last five years not less than
thirty thousand dollars worth Of peach and
apple scions have been brought into the State
of South Carolina. York county alone, for
several years has bought, annually, more than
two thousand dollars worth Of fruit trees.
Why, in the name of common sense, does not
some man in York county start nursery and
assist our people in living at home? There
would be money made by the owner of such
nursery, and the money spent by his neigh
bors, in purchasing trees, would be kept in
the county. We have no means of accurate
ly estimating the amount of money spent
every spring, in purchasing seed Irish po-
tatoes. Not less, however, than two thous-
and dollars. This is wonderful. Why does
not some man plant big potato patch? Let
our farmers think of these things
VITALITY OF SEEDs.-About the year
1850, gentleman in Scotland succeeded to
an estate which had been in his family over
300 years. On this estate there was large
marsh or bog covering over 100 acres, on
which his predecessors had unavailingy ex-
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