Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-03-04
The farm aud fireside.

Pos1r1oN IN SLEEP.-A writer in the
Christian at Work insists that position in sleep
is of great Importance. He says: "The food
passes from the stomach at the right side,
hence its passage is facilitated by going to
sleep on the right side. Water and other
fluids flow equally on level, and it requires
less power to propel them on level than
upwards.
"The heart propels the blood to every part
of the body at each successive beat, and it is
easy to see that if the body is placed in a
horizontal position the blood will be sent to
the various parts of the system with much
greater ease, with less expenditure Of power,
and more perfectly than if one portion of the
body we're elevated above horizontal line.
"If one portion of the body is too low, the
blood does not return as readily as it is car
ried thther hence, there is an accumulation
and distention, and pain follows.
"If person goes to sleep with the head a
little lower than the body, he will soon wake
up, or will die with apoplexy before morning,
because the blood cannot get back from the
brain as fast as it was carried to it.
"The savage uses log of wood or bunch
of leaves, civilized man pillow and if this
pillow is too thick, raising the head too high,
there is not blood enough carried to the brain ;
and as the brain is nourished and invigorated
by sleep, it is not fed sufficiently, and the re-
suit is unquiet sleep during the night, a
waking up in weariness, without refreshment,
to be followed by day of drowsiness discom-
fort, and general inactivity of both mind and
body"
BEDDING.-There are two good, sufficient
reasons why plenty of bedding should be used
in the stables. One of these is because it
tends to keep the animals clean and comfort
able. The other because by this means the
quantity of manure made on the farm can be
largely increased.
That the farm animals should be kept as
clean as possible is too plain fact to require
an argument to enforce. If kept clean they
will be more comfortable than they otherwise
can be, and, therefore, they will be more prof
table to their owner. 1t pays to keep ami
mails as quiet and comfortable as possible; for
discomfort to the creature invariably means
loss to its owner.
The importance of increasing the supply of
fertilizing matter on the average farm is also
evident A larger quantity of manure is one
of the great necessities of the farmers through
out the country. The free use of bedding
will greatly increase the quantity without i'm
pairing the quality Of the fertilizing material
which can be obtained on the farm. Decay
ing vegetable matter, like old hay, straw and
corn stalks, makes excellent manure, and al
ways ought to be saved for this purpose.
EARLY CoRN.-A correspondent of VicEs
Magazine gives the following directions for
bringing corn to maturity early in the season,
adding that he picked corn last year inside
sixty days from the time of planting: Let
the condition of the soil and manure be the
best you can command, and aside from the
frequent wedding and hoeing, stirring the
ground thoroughly, thin the stalks to three
or four. Three is best if you would have the
largest ears and most of them. Pluck out
numerically every sucker and non bearing
stalk. That process alone will hasten your
corn week or ten days, as have come to
believe from experiment. have added this
year top dressing at the hill, when the corn
was we'll up-a compost of one part plaster,
two parts ashes, and two parts fine manure,
which, think, has been great advantage"
Those who wish early corn should not
only have for seed what is called "an early
kind" but they should obtain it from as far
North as possible. Seed corn raised in Can
ada and taken South will come to perfection
one, two or three weeks earlier than tina,
ripened on the spot. The reason is that the
seed raised in the North has adapted itself
to short season. This is true, in a measure,
of all seeds.