Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-05-01
IMPROVING STOCK,

Opinions differ among men on the improve.
ment of stock just as widely as on other
questions of Importance. Some contend that
it is best to buy in the outset the most i'm.
proved breeds, in order to reach the speediest
and happiest results. This will do for those
who have plenty of the ready cash. But as
this is not the case with farmers generally, we
must look for some other method by which
the end desired may be reached and all bene.
fitted. The trouble with the South generally
is that there is not enough attention paid to
stock. Most every farmer has more or less;
but they are, as rule, Of that character to
warrant no considerable amount of attention
and excite no considerable degree of pride,
and no man who feels no pride in his stock,
will ever prosper in handling it. 1t is better
to move slowl than not to move at all. Par.
ticularly is this the case with those who are
not entirely prepared to care properly for
their cattle, and who know little about man
aging them 1t would, in our opinion, be
better for number of our farmers to club
together and buy one or more improved ami
mails for their own use. Cross these animals
with our common stock, and the result would
be most gratifying. 1t is true, they would
only be grade stock, the improvement would
be not only very perceptible, but would add
very largely to the value Of the stock. Our
observation has led us to this conclusion, and
we may say here, we have had good deal of
experience in breeding stock-that for very
many purposes on the farm, grade stock equal
those which draw their form from the purest
strains. Pure stock, like everything else, is
to be desired above that which bears the taint
of common blood. We prefer thoroughbred
all the time. But the thoroughbred COW will
give no more milk nor yield any more butter,
nor in the end make better beef than the
grades. A great many men who handle stock
know very we'll, but not all of them will con-
fess that there is as much humbuggery about
stock raising as about anything else We
speak advisedly when we assert that the great
secret at last in possessing fine stock, is in go
rious pastures and full corn cribs It makes
no difference what breed of stock man may
possess, if he does not feed literally and care.
fully attend them, they will soon become
common enough. The great difficulty in any.
enterprise is to start it. If it get on its legs
once, and it can stand, it will be apt to walk,
and soon take care of itself Now, if some
Of our enterprising farmers in every neigh
borhood would, as we have suggested, club
together and buy thoroughbred bull, or
horse, or boar, or buck, the cost would not
amount to much to each, and the result
would be more than satisfactory. With good
grades carefully attended and fed from the
moment of weaving, the process towards pure
stock may be rapidly made. By continually
crossing pure males with grades we may, in
few years, with, little cost, produce stock t
pure, which is nearly as complete as is at
tanned by most breeders. Give stock breed
er an animal ! pure, and he will swear that
that animal is thoroughbred and no mistake.
Our people are beginning to learn one i'm
portant lesson, viz. that Georgia is to be re.
invigorated by the introduction of stock
that the day has arrived for this work, and
that with its arrival enterprising men are
preparing for the harvest by importing and
breeding pure stock.-Planter and Grange.
The SPARE BED.-Almost every family
has spare bed. 1t is generally in a spare
room, remote from the living room, where it
would never feel the influence of any fire
that would usually be kindled or in a cham
Der with no arrangement tor warming it IN
winter. Into this spare room and spare bed
company are put, frequently without the least
thought that there is the slightest danger of
iniuring their guests. This is done with the
kindest intentions, out of respect for their
friends, who they wish might enjoy the best
they have. Strong, healthy persons, in the
vigor of life, might not experience any Sc
rious inconvenience. Not so with the feeble
or aged. Many, under these circumstances,
have taken "a cold that has brought on severe
cough, sometimes congestion of the lungs,
and even death itself. 1t ought to be known
that an unoccupied bed in cold room in