Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20
The ;farm and ;fireside. Gemeral Mers Summary
PLANTATION WORK FOR JUNE.

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PLANTATION WORK FOR JUNE.
If drouth comes, do not stop working the
crops, but keep on. The dryer and hotter,
the better time to kill grass and weeds, and
when the rains come, as come they will, you
will reap the reward of your labor.
Don't neglect your orchards-an abundant
crop of fruit should be source of income to
the farmer as we'll as cotton, tobacco, or any.
thing else. The use of dried fruit, as an ar
ticle of diet, is yearly increasing, and there is
demand abroad, if not at home, for all we
can raise. A great deal of fruit is lost for
the want of little knowledge and attention.
The coddling moth, or apple worm, destroys
his share, and much is lost at stoning time,
for the want of nourishment to the tree equal
to the demand at this period
This is the harvest time Of the dairy.
Abundant grass makes milk and butter OF
kline plentiful for the farmer. This interest,
we are sorry to say, is much neglected one,
and yet the advantages of our State, especial
ly the upper portion, are unequaled by any
State in the Union. More attention ought to
be paid to its development.
Make every available spot of cultivated
land produce something. Wherever failure
occurs in the hills of corn, rows of potatoes,
&C., drop few field beans, peas, pumpkins,
ruta bagas, white turnips, or whatever else will
help to feed the family or stock.
We knew an unlettered farmer who would
always plant peas in his corn fields, either in
the middle of the rows, if wide, or if narrow,
between the hills. He could not tell why it
was, but he said they made the land better,
as we'll as furnished food for his hogs. Any
substance in husbandry is a fertilizer which
improves the soil. This fact he knew, though
he could not explain the philosophy of it.
Peas are great fertilizer, because rich in
earthly and alkaline phosphates, potash, car:
Donate of lime, &C. They take deep root and
spread widely, and in nutritive properties
rank high. We say then, plant peas in your
corn fields to fertilze your land and to feed
your hogs, and in planting, drop about six
peas in hill.
Make all the hay you can. The farmers OF
our State have paid tribute long enough to
the North for baled hay, inferior in quality to
WQaU we Cdu duu w IdlSc1 OuG uoG Ill eulhSiOhe
quantity. We have meadow land enough to
feed double and treble the amount Of stock,
and ship thousands of bales to any other
State, where thriftless farmers are too indo-
lent or thoughtless to make it.
MOTHERS AS Doctors moth
ers learn much by their experience with the
little bodies entrusted to their care. Some Of
the most common sense facts in the physical
culture of these little ones known to the more
experienced mothers may not come amiss to
those who have had but little care of chill.
dren The foundation must be we'll laid to
ensure healthy and happy children. The
child must be well slept, we'll aired, we'll fed
and we'll bathed. By thorough under.
standing and practice of these four simple
rules, much of the physical, mental and NOR
al suffering in life would be avoided by pa:
rent as we'll as child. If healthy child
(and delicate one proportionately) is regu
larly put to bed about dark, in quiet, well
ventilated, or even cold room, after supper
of plain food, it will naturally awake at day
break, good natured, with keen appetite for
wholesome breakfast. Nutritious, plain
food, at regular hours, with no candy or stim-
ulants, and free bathing, help the system to
ward off many prevalent childrens ailments,
and to bear with much less danger the few
that must necessarily come to the majority Of
the little ones. The child that is just given
a little confectionery, or any unsuitable food,
and then rocked to sleep, should cause no
surprise at waking peevish and feverish. 1t
of n pH
want of knowledge on the part of the one in
charge. 1t will certainly pay in the end to
search diligently for the cause when little
child is proverbially cross Chicago Alliance.
A PROSPEROUS FARMER.-When you see
a barn larger than house it shows that he
will have large profits and small Affections.
When you see him driving his work it shows
that he will never be driven from good reso
lutions, and that he will certainly work his
way to prosperity. When you see in his
woodhouse suficiency for three months or
more, it shows that he will be more than a
ninety days wonder in farming operations,
and he is not sleeping in his house after
drunken frolic When his sled is housed in
summer and his farming implements covered
both winter and summer, it plainly shows that
he will have good house over his head in
the summer of his early life and the winter of
old age When his cattle are properly shield
ed and fed in winter, it evnces that he is
acting according to Scripture, which says
that "a merciful man is mercifu to his beast"
When he is seen subscribing for paper and
paying in advance, it shows that he is speak
ing like book respecting the last improve
ments in agriculture, and that he never gets
his walking papers to the land of poverty.
How TO STARcH-Every housewife, as
we'll as laundry maid, should know how to
starch. Here are good directions from an ex.
perienced hand When hot starch is used
take one heaped tablespoonful Of starch to a
quart of boiling water; after it has been beat.
en- down smooth with little cold water, if it
does not turn into jelly, put it into sauce
pan, and stir it while it is over the fire till it
does. To prevent the iron sticking, stir a
piece of wax candle two or three times round
in the hot starch, or add four drops of tur
pentine. Strain the starch through piece
of muslin, and cover it up till nearly cold
When the things to be starched are dry, they
should be dipped into the starch; then wiring
them out, and when half dry place them in
towel, sprinkle with little water, and roll
them up until You are ready to iron them.
Instead of the candle, it is good plan to
keep piece of skinny fat beside you, and
each new thing sou take up, touch the tip of
the iron with the fat.
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for collecting the fruit, set in an open vessel
one of those having tap fitted to the side of
it rather near the bottom-and pour over the