Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-11
The fatnt aud fiteside.
SELECTION OF SEEDS.

on the selection of cotton seed for planting,
deserves more attention than it will probably
receive. 1t is, unfortunately, but too true
that the wisest suggestions on the subject OF
farming, when put into print, lose much of
their power to do good, man may be recog-
nized by his neighbor as model farmer, but
if he unwittngly 'swrites for the papers" he
is at once set down as theorist, 'book far
mer," and ''Othello's occupations gone.' 1t
is true, and pity tits tits true.
The selection of field and garden seeds is a
matter of no common interest, and embraces
a larger margin of profit for the farmer than
is generally supposed. The time has come
when the profits of farming depend upon what
YOU can save more than what you can make.
Tie small leaks must be stopped, or the vessel
will soon be empty. Thousands of dollars
are annually sent North for field and garden
seeds which, with little care in selecting
and propagating, could be just as well pro-
duced at home. We have known many success
full farmers who had never paid tribute to
foreign seed growers.
But to return to the selection OF cotton
seed for planting We would never select
from the first opening; but from the second,
where the seed is we'll ripened and developed
ANY observant planter will detect many vari-
eties of the cotton plant in his fields. Some
stalks, tall and vigorous, will have very few
bolls, but a superior staple others will be
prolific, but the bolls may be small or open
badly others will be covered with bolls which
will stand at about one thing until frost, many
not maturing at al: : while others will open
freely and the lint will hang out ready for
picking and dry enough for the gin. An in
telligent observing man can 60 ahead and
make selections of best varieties, and as the
select pile of cotton will always be small,
there will be no damage of heating and injur-
ing the seed. The continued selections, year
after year. will produce a superior variety OF
cotton both as to staple and fruitfulness, if
a proper degree of attention is beStowed-all
depends on that.
The Georgia planters have paid more espe-
cial attention to the prolific character of the
plant This is all very well, but since the
production of cotton has gone mainly into the
hands of the white man and the cotton belt
is continually extending, we should endeavor
to improve the staple. The supply may ex-
ceed the demand, or come so close to it as to
make the crop an improbable one, but we
have the advantage of climate and should be
able to produce staple superior to all other
countries 1t should be borne in mind that
cotton is the most popular crop in the world,
from the fact that it can be grown over so
wide an area and that it is cash crop always,
at all places and at all times. The cultivation
of it will spread as long as population increas-
es. Dr. Cloud, a distinguished Alabama plant
er, always used the seed of the preceding
years crop for planting. He said he was
sure of better stand and more vigorous
plant, because all the inferior seeds would
lose their vitality during the winter. There
would seem to be good sense in this.-CorreS-
pondence Columbia Register.
A FARMERS LIABILITY.-AS a general
thing the farmer is liable to all the public in
jury his hired man may cause while actually
employed by him. If he sends him in his lot
to burn brush, and he, for any purpose, leaves
it and the fire runs into his neighbours land,
destroying his fence and injuring his crops,
the farmer is liable for the damages caused by
the wantOn neglect of the hired man. If he
sends hired man on the road with his team,
and he by negligence runs into another team
and Injuries it, the farmer is liable for the
damages but should the hired man leave the
road directed to go, and travel another road for
his own pleasure, then the farmer would not
be liable for the damages should any accident
occur. If in cutting wood the hired man cuts
down tree in another lot, the owner is liable
for trespass and damages, although he distinct
ly showed him the boundary, and though the
man may have cut the tree with maliciousness.
In all these cases the farmer can compel the
hired man to pay him back if he has anything
to pay it with; but this is rarely the case un-
less the farmer keeps back his wages, and only
settles when his time expires. Exchange.
FOoD FOR THE SICK.-Frequently we find
sick persons whose stomachs reject all kinds of
nourishment until conditions follow that in
many instances terminate fatally In twenty
instances in which have heard the popular
sick-bed nourishment prescribed and rejected
by an invalid's enfeebled stomach, have never
known the simple saucer of parched corn putts
ding or Cruel refused. The corn is roasted
brown, precisely as we roast coffee, ground as
fine as meal, in a coffee mill, and made either
into mush, cruel, or thin cakes, baked lightly
brown, and given either warm or cold, clear,
or with whatever dressing the stomach will
boiled in skinned milk, and fed frequently to
children suffering from diarrhoa, will almost
always cure, as it will dysentery in adults, and
we believe, the cholera in it's earliest stages
FOOD TO MAKE FLEsH.-Sugar, syrup, fresh
cheese, wheaton grits, hominy, juicy meats,
are the foods to make flesh. Almost any wo-
man will get plump on brown bread and wheat
en- grits, or oatmeal eaten twice day, with
plenty of meat and vegetables at breakfast,
dIlu d VI UloNA Will oNCoe-
meats, cheese and cream, or coffee drank with
plenty of sugar and cream. 1t is not necessa-
ry to eat largely if the appetite does not crave
it; but the food must be tempting, and if hun
ger is keen, one who would be plump and spir-
tied should not be afraid to indulge it. I'm
relishing, distasteful food, will not noursh
and stimulate like what isspiquant and Savory
and changed in variety day by day.-Scientifc
american.