Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-12-02
The farnt aud fireside.
TO RESTORE LANDS DEPRECATED BY
COTTON.

An editor was travelling with young COM
panion, in private conveyance, through the
county, and seeing the fine plantations that
were formerly as rich and productive as we
could desire, but now worn and quilted from
hill top to valley by constant cotton culture,
remarked to his young companion: "What
is to become Of our country and its inhabl-
tantsw The young man answered and said,
Bermuda grass will restore it to its former
value, and its owners make more money than
those who hare worn it out by cotton cul-
ture" Diversity of farming is our only
hope; stock raising, sheep husbandry, and
cultivation of grasses, and sowing grain is the
only wise policy. 1t will make our fields
blossom like the rose, polr into the laps OF its
owners teeming riches, and render them inde'
pendent of the North and West for all that
now supplies their wants. In fact the coun'
try is now toe poor even to produce cotton to
buy supplies st the present low price; and,
even if it was worth 30 cents per pound, it
would be bad policy to grow it exclusively
as the lands become poor and less productive
every year, and we would ultimately have
to abandon them and 60 West to- seek "Green
fields and pastures new" where the soil is
more productive. We must change our sys'
tenn Of farming. Bermuda grass will grow
and flourish in this latitude, and even stop
comparatively large gullies in year or so.
Stock of all kinds prefer it to any other
grass and it is first in the Spring to put out
and the last i'm the Winter to die. And, when
partially protected by pines, remains green all
Winter, affording fine grazing for cattle and
sheep. If any one has his plantation we'll
set in Bermuda grass, then he is we'll pre-.
pared to make money, and can restore his
lands to their original fertility, and can make
more money than if he planted four times
the area in cotton. For the farmer the rails
ing of sheep is one of the most profitable en-:
terprises. No animal except the goat will
live and thrive with so little care and atten.
ton. They are at the same time the best of
fertilizers and good farm scavengers, as they
feed upon many plants that are great pests
and hard to destroy, except by their brows'
ing Poor land will furnish good pastures
for sheep, and will improve so rapidly that it
may be brought into high state of cultiva-
ton in few years. The fleece, under the
the most unfavorable conditions, will more
than pay for the cost and care of raising the
sheep And where can you find anything
better to the palate than nice fat lamb,
either fried, roasted, or boiled, or baked,
whilst scientists have demonstrated that no
other flesh is equal to it, or so wholesome, for
either young or old, sick or we'll. But the
selling of their carcasses should be secon-
dary consideration, although it may pay
handsomely in spring and fall. The best
animals should be selected, those with hardy,
compact frames and fine wool, and then. by
judicious crossing with Spanish merino buck,
your flock will soon be all that you can de.
sire. The deg is the great enemy of the
sheep raiser, and nothing but dog law can
remedy the evil and one should have been
enacted at least ten years ago, but it is never
too late to do good. From two to four hun
dred acres in Bermuda grass will Craze five
hundred head of sheep and one hundred head
of cattle Amy one, who can commence
with this number of acres in Bermuda,
can become independent in few years time.
The plan IS this, have five or ten acre lot
fenced in for folding the sheep on every
night, and very soon they will come up regu.
larly to be penned. In fortnight the lot
will be rich with the deposits of their manure.
Then break up we'll and keep the lot in good
condition by keeping it we'll ploughed.
Change your sheep to another lot of five or ten
acres, or you may have, if preferred, a twenty
acre lot under one fence; and fold your sheep
on this area longer, until every foot of it is
thoroughly manured. And, in the fall, manure
with superphosrhate, and SOW in turnips, and
it will produce enough turnips to winter all
your sheep and cattle; and, by fencing off
so much as they will eat in week, the man.
ure from the sheep will make the lots rich
enough to produce one hundred bushels of
corn per acre-or bale of cotton. Have
also ten or fifteen acres we'll prepared and
manured and SOW in barley and rye, and you
will have green lots in the spring that will
feed your stock, ewes and lambs, until the
grass springs up in the fields These barley
and turnip lots can then be planted in corn
and peas; and when the corn crop is ripe and
housed, the pea crop can be fed to the sheep,
and the vines ploug under; and with the
droppings of the sheep, it will be in fine con
dition to SOW either in turnips, or barley,
or rye, ready for winter pasture. By this
process you can make permanently rich, in
year, one hundred acres, which will be am:
ply enough for all practical purposes. The
balance of your land can remain in Bermuda
grass for pasture. The increase of your sheep
will double every year-a ready market al.
ways at hand for your surplus sheep and
lambs at remunerative prices, in spring and
fall, their fleece more than pay all cost of
wintering, whilst your lands will be improved
without the necessity of hauling manure or
purchasing commercial fertilizers-CRAw-
FORD, in Charlotte Democrat.
CURE FOR WoUNDs.-As soon as the
wound is inflicted, get little stick-a knife
or file handle will do-and commence to tap
gently on the 7ound. Do not stop for the
hurt, but continue until it bleeds freely and
becomes perfectly numb. When this point
is reached, you are safe-all that is necessary
is to protect i. from the dirt. Do not stop
short of the bleeding and the numbness, and
do not, on any account, close the opening
with plaster. Nothing more than a little
simple cerate on clean cloth is necessary.
We have used and seen this used on all kinds
of simple punctures for thirty years, and nev-
er knew single instance Of wound becom-
ing inhamed or sore after treatment as above
Among other cases: A coalrake tooth going
entirely through the foot, a bad bite by apig,
several instances of ile.shank through the
hands, and numberless cases of rusty nails,
avis, etc., but we never knew failure of this
atment.-Ssientifc american.
How TO FEED BRAN-Bran or ground
feed is best fed to COWS upon moistened hay
it being mixed with the hay, all will be eaten
together and raised and masticated. But if
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