Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15
EDUCATED FARMERS.

A correspondent who has out little 1altn
in agricultural colleges, and apparently lit
tie knowledge of what a farmer ought to
know, inquiries of US, "what is there about
farming that it is necessary for boy to 60
to school to learn?"
In answer to this we do not propose to 60
into the bouudless field of knowledge which
it is important that the true farmer should
study and master. But as stock breeding
and rearing are necessary part OF farmers
business, be should understand the laws Of
life, both vegetable and animal. The intel
ligent feeder should have scientific knowl-
edge of the structure and functions of the
animals he grows. Reasoning from cause to
effect, as the animals have no power of trans
forming one element of food into another, he
should know the exact nature of the food he
intends for particular purpose, which can
alone be obtained by scientific knowled &c of
its elements, and thus know just what is re.
quired to build up the frame, the muscles, or
produce fat. The farmer should know what
kind of food contains the necessary caloric to
keep up the animal heat in low temperatures,
and what food contains the most starchy ele.
ments to produce certain results.
Nor is knowledge of the structure and
wants of the animals all that is necessary
Vegetable life must be understood, and he
must know just what kind Of food each par
ticular plant requires for its health and de-
velopment. And thus our correspondent
will dip deep into the duties and business of a
true farmer, and will find that intelligent ag-
riculture should be conducted with science,
art and skill. All other branches of industry
have limited fields of research. Agriculture
is boundless. Farmers have groped in the
dark long enough, the business has been de.
graded for the reason that the ignorant and
unlearned have plodded on, doing things at
random, as frequently wrong as right. Whea
our correspondent, as we'll as the rest of the
world, learns that the advanced farmer and
the farm are governed by definite scientific
principles and rules, as fixed as those of m ,th-
ematics, mechanics or engineering, then, and
then only, will the respectable farmers son
respect the calling of his father. Then will
the farmer take his true place in the society OF
the refined and learned. Then no longer will
farming be a game of chance, or the far
mer's features proclaim him a drudge-Iowa
Register.
CoTToN SEED OIL FOR CooKING.-A wri-
ter in the Southern Plantation gives the fol-
lowing hints by which house-keepers may ben
fit: "Now what want to tell your subscri-
bers is, that refined cotton seed oil is just as
good as olive oil, and much better than most
Of the olive oil we get here, because it is 80
much fresher. About six months ago found
out that number of Hebrew families in this
city we're using cotton seed oil to cook with.
felt interested in the matter, and made some
INQUIRIES about it, and was assured that to
shorten bread it was as good as lard or other
grease, and to fry fish or chicken or steak it
was much better. asked how it could be
better, and the answer was that lard lacked
great deal of being pure grease-it contained
large proportion of stearine and other for
eign matter, and when it was heated these
other ingredients that were not pure grease
would commence to burn at a much lower
temperature than the cotton seed oil-conse-
quently the meat immersed in the oil at a
temperature some twenty degrees higher than
the lard could be raised, was at once
Drowned over, all the juices retained inside,
and none of the grease permitted to penetrate,
and the result was a much better cooked and
more palatable piece of meat. / determined
to try the oil, and now state as the result of
my personal experience for six months that it
is far superior to lard for every purpose of
cooking, and that it is twice as cheap"
nss- In answer to the question: Why are
farmers so liable to rheumatism The Science
of Health says: Because they wear wet
clothing, heat, and suddenly chill the body,
over.eat after very hard work, and because
they do not keep the skin in clean and
healthy condition. If farmers would avoid
suddenly cooling the body after great exer-
ton, if they would be careful not to go with
wet clothing and wet feet, and if they would
not over-eat when in an exhausted condition,
and bathe daily, using much friction, they
would have less rheumatism"
GIVE THEM AsHEs.-Where fowls are con-
fined in considerable numbers to a restricted
enclosure, they should have-a good supply of
wood ashes to wallow in. 1t will pay to fill a
large box with ashes and place it under shelter
where the fowls can use it at pleasure. 1t is
a pleasure to them, as is manifest by the ca
gerness with which they avail themselves of
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