Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-03-04
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Thus the fertility of our soil and salubrity of
our climate have made US thriftless.
EXPENSIVE CROPS.
Clear gain is simply the difference between
income and outlay. This is the case in every
occupation. The merchant who sells goods at
twenty-five per cent. profit on the COST may
think he is doing good business !; but if he pays
in the way of rents, taxes, clerks hire and
depreciation of stock, thirty per cent. on the
money invested, he is loosing five per cent
The farmer whose crops cost more to make
them than they will sell for in the market, is
sinking money. Some kinds of crops will not
bring much ready money, and others will
bring a great deal. Now, it is not safe to
conclude that that crop which brings the
greatest amount of ready money, when lit is
ready for market, is the most profitable crop.
Some crops-such as wheat, oats, hay and po-
tatoes- not seem to be very remunerative,
whilst cotton seems to be very profitable. The
cost of making these different crops should be
taken into consideration before conclusion is
drawn. To make crop of wheat or oats
costs but very little, whilst it costs great
deal to make crop of cotton. No crops that
are cultivated cost as much as corn and cot
ton and none are so draining on the soil.
Land that will produce ten bushels of corn
per acre will produce twenty dozen of oats.
An ordinary horse will require from fifty to
seventy-6ve bushels of corn to feed him dur
ing year. At the rate of ten bushels per
acre, it would take six or seven acres to make
corn enough to feed horse. Twelve acres
of land can be cultivated in oats easier than
six acres in corn. In fact, thirty acres sown
in oats would not cost as much as it would to
cultivate six acres of corn. One hand ought,
with good mule or horse, "to plow in" the
thirty acres of oats in thirty days. This
would cost about twenty dollars To plant
six acres ofcorn, as it ought to be planted,
will take not far short of twenty dollars. All
the other labor in working the corn will be
extra.
1t does appear that farmers ought, more
than they do, to think about the subject Of
expensive crops. Gross income is one thing,
and clear gain is another. In the South a
vast amount of money is annually made by
raising cotton. Since the war, the gross sales
of the cotton crop of York county have
amounted, each year, to more than four hum
dred thousand dollars. What has become of
that money? 1t not in the county. Where
has it gone to? For what has it been ex-
pended? By far the larger amount has been
expended in producingit. The remainder has
annually been spent for food and raiment.
OATMEAL FOR BONE AND MUsCLE.-Lie-
big has shown that oatmeal is almost as nutri-
tious as the very best English beef, and that
it is richer than wheaton bread in the elements
that 90 to form bone and muscle Professor
Forbes, of Edinburgh, during some twenty
years, measured the breadth and height
and also tested the strength of both the
arms and loins, of the students in the uni
versity-a very numerous class-and of va
rious nationalities, drawn to Edinburgh by
the fame of his teaching. He found that, in
height, breadth of chest and shoulders, and
strength ofarms and loins, the Belgians were
at the bottom of the list; little above them,
the French very much higher, the English ;
and highest of all, the Scotch, and Scotch
Irish from Ulster who, like the natives of
Scotland, are fed in their early years with at
least one meal day of good milk and oat-
meal porridge. Speaking of oatmeal, an ex-
change remarks that very good drink is
made by putting about two spoonfuls of the
meal into tumbler of water. The Western
hunters and trappers consider it the best of
drinks, as it is at once nourishing, unstimula-
ting, and satisfying. 1t popular in the Brook
lyn navy-yard, two and ahalf pounds of oat-
meal being put into pail of moderately cool
water. It's much better than any of the or
dinary mixtures ofvinegar and molasses with
water, which farmers use in the haying or har-
vest field.
FLOwER-GARDENING FOR LADIEs.-La-
dies should be their own Hower.gardeners.
The greater part of the work is light, and
furnishes pleasant exercise and recreation.
During the warm season, the early part of the
morning hours and the cool of the evening
should be chosen for the operations of the
garden. "But am not strong enough" do
you say? This is the very way to acquire
Strength. Begin very moderately, allowing
some strong person to do the heaviest work.
An hour or two of light, active and pleasura-
BILE employment, out-ofdoors, each fair day,
take our word for it, will prove more benefi-
cial than the best tonic mixture that your
good and much respected doctor, with all his
skill, can prepare for you. Try it. You
will soon be able to use the light hoe and
spade, which we recommend you to procure
at once, with ease and pleasure. The quack' s
female pills find few patrons among the wives
and daughters who cultivate their own flower
gardens. The idea that the employment IS
unsuited to woman is preposterous and ab-
surd one. Where is her place if not among
the fowers-herself the fairest flower of all
Shall she blush to own that her own fair
hands reared the floral gems with which she
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