Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-05-04
Agrieultaral Repart'ment.
FARMING NOTES.

As remedy for snakes put in hogs. Hogs
are impervious to snakes. Their poison has
no effect on them. On the contrary, the hog
eats the snakes and grows fat. Try hogs.
1t is positive injury to plow wet lands.
Let no bad weather and the delay which it
occasions in spring operations, induce you to
commence plowing until the ground is dry
enough for the plow. The bad effects Of plow-
ing wet land remain and impede vegetation
for long time. Make haste slowly in plow-
ing wet land in spring.
Small farms we'll titled have many advan-
tages-less wages to be paid for help, less time
wasted, land better titled, more raised to the
acre, near neighbors, good woods, schools and
churches Let all surplus land be sold off,
and extra efforts made to make that which is
retained doubly productive, and this will be a
long stride in the road to making the farm
pay.
A gentleman who has been experimenting
on the subject, says in an exchange, be thinks
potatoes are worth 30 cents bushel to feed
to stock. They are not only nutritious but
are excellent appetizers and promoters Of d.
gestion. Experiments 60 to show that peck
Of potatoes will produce as much milk as a
bushel of beets, turnips or carrots.
In building new barn, I would study to
put in all the windows I could possibly get in,
of course not making greenhouse Of it, but
as many as most folks put into dwelling -hous-
es. 1t is so much better doing the work in a
light barn than in dark one; cattle are more
easily taken care of, and are more quiet and
better contented in a light place than in a dark
one.
Make your homes attractive by the culti-
vation of flowers and fruits and every desira-
BILE evergreen. Put them out in spring.
They will grow while you sleep, and soon your
homes will become almost irresistibly attrac-
tive Cultivate mind and heart as we'll as the
soil, and soon well-directed industry will afford
comfortable competency to even the poorest
in our land. -,....
Unfinished fences, which allow cattle to 60
where they please, are very common leaks.
So are bitches which have caved in and the
earth washed away, and doors and gates with
out hangings. If one pursues farming as a
business, it will pay to follow it in the best
manner, and the good judgment Of the intel
llgenC larmer Will leau Hlu w sup oil 1no
leaks, great and small. .
1t costs the Southern farmer less to raise
his meat than to buy it. Hogs are not hard
to raise. Sow land in grain for your hogs, and
let them gather it for themselves Plant
chufa, artichokes, or sweet potatoes, and turn
the hogs on them to gather and fatten. Then,
here are ground peas, stock peas and turnips.
TRY them, and but little corn will be needed
to ct your hogs for pork. In this way, your
pork will not cost you over three or four cents
pound. Hog cholera will never trouble
those who give their swine sulphur, copperas,
lime, ashes and charcoal in occasional feeds.
Farming does pay. The same intelligence,
industry and frugality which are required in
mercantile pursuits will pay always, and quite
as we'll in farming. They have as shrewd and
intelligent merchants in New York and Bos-
ton as any where in this country, and yet an
actual count has disclosed the fact, thatseventy
to seventy-nine per cent. of all those engaged
in mercantile pursuits have, at some time or
other, failed in business. Certainly there are
instances where men have grown rich by
trade, just as there are Of those who have be-
come wealthy by farming. But there are ex'
ceptions.