Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-02-01
The farm aud fiteside.
[OriginaL]
THE PROSPECTS.


tural interests. The farms all over the State
are in dilapidated condition. The fences
and houses are rotting down, and few repairs
are making the fields are washing into gull
lies or becoming overgrown with pines and
briers. All things considered, the prospects
are not very bright. In fact, they are gloomy.
The crisis of dissolution is fast approaching.
It requires no prophetic skill to predict the
final result. The real estate of the country ls
in jeopardy. Multitudes of our people are
on the borders of bankruptcy. If things
continue to drift as they have been for the
last five years, the end will soon be reached.
The property of the country will change
hands.
This is no individual matter Every man,
woman and child, from the greatest TO- the
humblest, ia directly interested in this thing.
The merchant, the lawyer, the minister OF the
gospel, the school teacher, the field laborer,
the cook, the contractor, the journeyman in
one word, everybody is obliged to share the
crash. Facts are facts. They stare US in the
face and will not be gone at our bidding. 1t
is vain to try to conceal the truth. Like
murder, will out.
Gloomy as are the prospects, they are not
such as to cause US to fold our arms in hope
less despair. There is fable told by Esop,
we believe, concerning teamster whose cart
had become, as he thought, hopelessly stuck
in the mud. The despairing fellow began
says the fable, to cry Justify upon Jupiter tor
help. Jupiter responded to his prayers, but
ordered him to put his shoulder to the wheel
and push whilst the oxen pulled. Now, fable
as this is, it may be turned to good advantage
at this particular time by all our people.
Some must pull and others must push.
One thing is just as clear as daylight. The
mode of living in South Carolina, and, per-
haps, in some other States, must be changed,
or the country will soon be ruined. There are
infinitely too many gentlemen Of leisure and
vagaboud loafers in this country. The man
that does not work at this period in the histo-
ry of our country, will soon find himself in
the mud over the hub, He may wear fine
clothes, smoke fine cigars and play the gentle
man idler generally, for short time; but his
ruin will come like tempest when he least
expects it.
Humanly speaking, the restoration of our
country depends upon well.guided industry
and properly regulated economy. We have,
by our idleness, extravaganza, and variety
of other ways, got deep in the mud, and the
only way We can get out is to push and pull
at the same time. The advice may be'very
unpalatable, but it is better to become soiled
with mud in struggling to get out of the
swamp, than to go down to the bottom. For
gentlemen, when we understand by that word
men of high-toned moral character, noble en-
terprise and indefatigable industry, there is
an abundance of room in this country. For
men of such characteristics there is at present
an opening in this country, which if improved
at once, will lead to permanent wealth. On
the contrary, the prospects for would.be.aris-
tocrats, self.constituted nobility, and idlers,
are as dark as Egypt. All that is necessary,
with the blessing Of kind providence, for
the restoration Of the agricultural interests Of
our country, is grand rally of muscles. If
every white man and white woman in the
country will try to make an independent liv-
ing, the prospects will brighten before next
November. This would be great political
move. 1t would accomplish for the country
what apparently can not be effected by the
ballot-box. The prosperity of our country
depends directly upon the prosperity of our
agricultural interests In the cotton belt of
the South, agriculture is all. Crush the farm
ers and we are ruined. Stop the mill and the
meal stops To advance the agricultural in
terests of our country is worthy of the greatest
minds of the country. 1t would do honor to
any man living. 1t can be- effected by no one
man. All our people must 60 to work.
INJURIES TO HORSES SHOULDERS
ries in the region of the shoulder are frequent
ly the result of carelessness in using badly
fitting collars. They may vary from sim
pie excoriation of collar gall, to infammato-
ry tumors or Assesses, and callous enlarge
ments. In all cases these ailments are very
painful, and for the time being, render the
horse almost useless for the ordinary work of
the farm. Whenever collar gall is observ-
ed, the collar should be carefully examined,
and made to fit the neck properly, and the
horse should be allowed to rest day or two.
The shoulders should be bathed with tepid
water three times day, and afterwards some
simple remedy applied, as acetate of lead 10.
tion, in the proportion of half an ounce of
acetate of lead to quart of water. Irritant
dressings, of black oils, &C., should not be
used in the treatment of gals, as they increase
the irritation of the injured parts.
In young horses, injuries to the shoulder are
common cause of making the horse finch
his work, or making him balky, and there is
no wonder that such should be the case in
many instances, from the torture to which
young animals are subjected through careless
ness and inattention on the part Of owners or
care-takers.
When puffy tumor appears on the shoul-
der, it contains serum, and should be opened
in due time. at the most dependent part, to
allow the efusion to escape. After opening,
lamentations should be applied several times
a day, until the enlargement is greatly re-
duced. In cases where the matter forms
quickly, and the enlargement increases, it is
necessary to pass seton from top to bottom:
This allows the matter to discharge freely, and
also stimulates the part to healthy action.
The seton must be kept in for about week,
and must be cleansed and dressed three times
q day.-Cdnada Farmer.
How LITTLE LAND WILL KEEP Cow
On the first day of June last 1 commenced cut
ting clover for one COW confined in yard in
closed by high, tight board fence, with a
stable attached in which she had been fed.