Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-07-05
THE WHEAT CROP.

Farmers tell US that more bountiful wheat
crop than the present has not been harvested
in York county since 1916. While larger
crop than usual was sown, last fall, the season
has been remarkably propitious, and with no
calamity to other growing crops, the people
will, it is hoped, be blessed with cheaper bread
the coming year.
We have no means of ascertaining the ap-
proximate yield of the crop of the county, but
as an instance of what has been done in this
immediate section, we cite the fact that those
who have thrashed the crop raised on the lots
and patches within the corporate limits of the
town, inform US that from this source alone the
yield is about 1900 bushels. In previous
years nearly all of these lots have been de-
voted to cotton.
The farmers of York county may congrat-
ulate themselves at having awakened to the
Importance of producing grain in preference
to all cotton crops; and with the result of the
present year before them, we trust they will
be convinced of the wisdom of such a course.
When the farmers of the South produce their
own provisions, they are in a position to be
independent; but not before
STRONG CASE OF sKEPTICIsM.
"Sweet are the uses of adversely" is po-
etical axiom, practically tested in every day
life in more ways than could have been con-
ceived by the immortal bard who penned the
line. Yet we doubt if a more complete ex.
qualification of the idea was ever made than
recently, by man of whom we heard, not
thousand miles from Yorkville, who turned
the affliction of the matrimonial moose to
practical account in a manner no less novel
than satisfactory to himself. 1t seems that
the man had been ailing for some time, and
consulting a physician, the learned Escula-
plus prescribed small portion Of strychnine,
to be taken in solution, at stated intervals,
but was so indiscreet as to give his patient
the name of the medicine prescribed. The
sick man had often heard of the deadly prop
critics of the drug, and not holding to the the
ory that
sWounds by wider wounds are healed,
And poisons by themselves expelled"
was dubious in an eminent degree, and took
the vial of medicine with many misgivings of
doubt and fear, notwithstanding the protesta'
tions of the physician that the prescribed
remedy would be not only harmless, but bene-
fetal. But on his way home happy thought
came to his relief-one on which he promptly
decided to act. His wife-the partner of his
Joys and woes-knew nothing of the contents
of the vial, and how easily could he induce
her to take dose! If no bad results follow.
ed, all dubousness would be removed, and he
could have faith in the prescription. Accord
ingly, he caused her to take full dose, and
no bad effects following, he gave her another,
by way of making satisfactory experiment.
Fortunately, the medicine proved harmless; !;
the experiment was success, and his faith
was so strengthened that he at once COM
rnenced taking the remedy, and, no doubt, is
on the high road to health. On being asked
why, if he wished to experiment with the med
cine, he did not give it to one of his children
instead of his wife, he replied that his chill
dren we're his own flesh and blood, but that
his wife was not a blood relation.