Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-21
The fatm and fireside.
RURAL ECONOMY,

Editor Southern CuHivator.-There are
more ways for farmers to economize than by
eating corn bread and wearing homespun
clothing. In this country, labor is the dear
est factor in farming. Therefore, horse-pow'
er should be used as much as practicable.
Land being cheaper in many localities than
anything else, that system of farming should
be followed that utilities the most land, aud
least labor, implements, &c. Fencing in crops
is often practiced, where fencing stock would
be cheaper. Poor crops are very nearly as
to make as good ones. Therefore,
as general thing, it pays to make as large
crops as drainage, manure, improved imple.
ments, good work stock, good seed, and thor
ough cultivation will produce.
1t does not pay to let your soil deteriorate
and finally become exhausted. 1t requires
more labor to make crop on thin soil than
on a rich one The loss in produce, while
your soil is becoming exhausted, is enoug h to
buy three such farms. Renters are no excep'
tions to this rule, if they rent for long enough
periods. A great portion is applicable to
short periods; all of it when the farm is in a
high state of cultivation. 1t never pays to pas.
ture any cultivated crop. The objections are,
cost of cross fences, waste of produce, loss or
idleness of the soil, and damage to the soil, by
tramping of stock. Land can be too dear to
even have pastures of the grasses practice
soiling instead, with other products. Pasture
grasses tha: do not manure, waste and decay
like cultivated crops that are not gathered at
the proper time Furthermore, the soil be-
comes compact and does not tramp so badly.
1t pays we'll to protect stock from inclement
weather. The food saved in few years would
put up commodious buildings. 1t also pays
we'll to keep stock in good flesh. They pay
for food by growth. The saving of food by
inferior and scant feed is overbalanced by loss
of growth, stunted stock, and increase of feed
requisite to restore flesh or to fatten.
As Josh Billings says, "when start down
hill find every thing creased for the oeca-
shun." But going up hill, you have to furnish
the "ile" yourself: 1t pays we'll to have good
stock when you have food to correspond. 1t
takes less food for given amount of growth.
More flesh in proportion to the less valuable
horns, bones and entrails. In the matter of
food for man and beast, there is much room
for reform. The cost of food for man comes
in the following ratio: fruit, vegetables,
bread and meat For stock, pasture, hay,
oats, peas and corn.
They should be used in proportion to re-
quirements of flesh, muscle, heart and fat.
For stock, they are adapted in the ratio indl-
Gated. Perhaps, it is verytnearly true of hu-
man beings.
Sell for cash. Buy the same way. Do not
rush into market. Nor hold too long. There
is medium between. Be satisfied with fair
sales. If you raise produce for which there is
a market at home-de not dribble it out.
But sell in bulk to your merchants, for cash.
Do not be too parsimonious when you get be-
hind in cultivating or gathering your crop, to
pay good prices for day labor. 1t pays we'll to
get help then at any price. But DO not over
crop and depend on day labor. 0. JONES.
FARMERS BoYs.-For farmers, the coun-
try wants the most energetic, thoroughgolng
and wide awake boys that can be found.
Hence, if boy is blessed with that crowning
concomitant which moves the world-brains-
let him become farmer Brains constitute
the great desideratum in agricultural science
at the present day. Fifty years ago, muscle
was the essential requisite. Fifty years ago,
a farmer was expected to perform every man
ual labor of the farm by the exercise of mus
cular force, while at the present day, he needs
brains more than muscle, to enable him to
manage labor-saving tools and implements
with skill and efficiency When the labors
of the farm were nearly all performed by the
labo-ious and fatiguing application of human
force, farming was irksome and drudgery.
But now, when teams and steam power re-
spond to the bidding of the tiller of the soil,
agriculture is the most agreeable pursuit one
can desire. True, at some seasons of the year,
farmers are required to labor earl ly and for
several days. Then, again, perhaps for weeks,
they will have easy times.-Dir1go RuraI
CARE OF HoGs.-The internal vital organs
of the hog are very much like those of man.
Hogs are subject to many diseases that men
are subject to. A severe cold frequently
produces pneumonia in man, and in hogs it
produces the same disease. Tens ofthousands
of hogs die yearly by this disease. The pre-.
ventive is, good feed, good shelter, warm and
dry bedding. Ifhogs lay out on the cold, wet
ground, ifthey and their bedding are exposed
to rain and sleet and snow,is it any wonder
that they take cold, get the pneumonia and die?
Men subjected to the same treatment would
die. The hog has not fur, or wool, or hair,
or if called hair, very coarse article it is to
shield it from cold and storms Hence, good
shelter, dry beds and kind treatment, are very
essential to keep hogs thriving and healthy
Colemans Rural World.
A USEFUL TABLE.-To aid farmers in ar
irving at accuracy in ascertaining the amount
of land in different fields under cultivation,
the following table is given by an agrcultu-
raj paper:
5yards wide by 96S yards long contains one
acre.
20 yards wide by 242 yards long contains
one acre.
40 yards wide by 12l yards long contains
one acre.
100 yards wide by BOT yards long contains
one acre.
22O yards wide by 1913 feet long contains
one acre.
10 feet wide by 1856 feet long contains one
acre.
60 feet wide by 726 feet long contains one
acre.
WARTs.-If they give you no special incon-
venience, let them alone. But if it is of essen
tal Importance to get rid of them, purchase
half an ounce muriatic acid, put it in broad
bottom vial, so that it will not easily turn over,
take stick as large as the end of knitting
needle, dip it into the acid, and touch the top
of the wart with whatever of the acid adheres
to the stick then, with the end Of the stick,
rub the acid into the top of the wart, without
allowing the acid to touch the we'll skin. Do
this ght and morning; safe, painless, and