Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-03-31
The farm aud fireside,
MERCY TOWARDS ANIMALS.

The teamster who loads his dray or wagon
so heavily that the horse or team attached to
it cannot draw it but a short distance, with
out being 80 exhausted of strength as to be
unable to proceed, without stopping to rest,
or breathe awhile, is an unmerciful and an
unwise man.
Whoever practices such s mode Of load
ing his team is ignorant Of true economy, and
is wanting in merciful feelings-is inhuman.
1t is ever injurious to the beast of burden or
draft to overload him such loads as require
the exercise of the full, or nearly the whole
strength of the animals to move them for
ward, strain their nerves and sinews and sti
he them. The over-driven or over-worked
horse is injured in his strength and speed.
1t is uneconomical to manage and use horse
in such manner as to impair his usefulness
and value. 1t is most unwise to lessen by
our usage, more than necessary, the market
value of our working animals, to shorten
their lives or their periods of serviceahlc
ness. 1t is great folly to use horse, that
would, with kind and wise management, be
serviceabie for ten years as to curtall that
term of usefulness TO six years.
The motto that "tme is money" is true,
indeed. By over-driving or overlooking we
impair the speed of the carriage and dray
horse. We lose time in their lessened speed
and activity afterwards. We occasionally
see drays, sleds, and wagons so heavily load
ed for the horses or teams attached, that they
cannot be moved but few yards, or rods,
without so fatiguing the animal as to require
rest, and may be, with difficulty, the load
is started after such pauses or stoppings.
The horses are much injured by straining. to
haul such loads, and much time is lost by
such mode of draggage. 1t would be more
expeditions and economical to 60 oftener
with lighter loads 1t is better to 60 twice,
in transporting -four, than to put one barrel
too many for load. 1t is an injury to the
harnesses and carriages, when the load is too
heavy for the team. A sled is much racked
By the swinging to and off the team in en-
deavoring to start Heavy loads rack and
strain the carriage ever. 1t is uugentleman
ly. to 80 load a team that its movements pain
and shock the sensibilities Of street passen-
gers. The act of overlooking is accursed.
Nails IN FRUIT TREEs:-A singular fact
and one worthy of being recorded, was men,
toned to US few days since by Mr.. Alexander
Duke, of Albemarle. He stated that whilst
on g. visit to a neighbor, his attention was
called to peach orchard, every tree in which
was totally destroyed by the ravages of the
worm, with the exception of three, and these
we're the most thrifty and fourishng peach
trees he ever saw. The only cause Of their
superiority known to the host, was an ex-
pertinent made in consequence of observing
that those parts of worm eaten timber into
which the nails have been driven, we're gen.
orally sound. When his trees were about a
year old, be had selected three of them and
driven ten penny nail through the body
as near the ground as possible; whilst the
balance of his orchard had gradually fail
ed and yielded entirely to the ravages
of the worms, these three trees selected
at random. treated precisely in the same
manner, with the exception of the mailing.
had always been vigorous and healthy. fur
nishing him at that very period with the
greatest profusion Of the most luscious fruit.
It is supposed that the salt of iron afforded
by the nail is offensive to the worm, whilst
it is harmless, or perhaps even beneficial to
the tree.
A chemical writer oa this subject says:
"The oxydation or rusting of the iron by
the sap evolves ammonia, which as the sap
rises, will of course impregnate every part OF
the foliage, and prove too severe dose for
the delicate palate OF intruding insects"
This writer recommends driving half a
dozen nails in the trunk. Several expert
ments of the kind have resulted successfully.
Southern Planter
CULTURE OF CABBAGE.-Greens, in some
form, comprise the principal of our vegetable
diet And when it is as easy to have the
tender blanched cabbage as the tough green
cabbage, why not have it? 1t is thought by
many that the cabbage heads better for being
transplanted. This is owing to the loss of the
tap root In transplanting the cabbage, care
fully cut off the tap root. 1t will throw out
numerous side roots which will cause it to
head 6rmer The cabbage is a great feeder,
therefore to have large, firm heads, the soil
should be rich. Potash is its special food,
and the plant may be fed in its growing state
with liquid highly impregnated with potash.
In transplanting the cabbage, no matter how
long the stem, it should be inserted in the
earth up to the first leaves. This will cause
it to throw out more root, thereby giving it a
better chance to head.
The soil around the cabbage can hardly
be stirred too frequently. The roots pene.
trating deeply, are not as liable to be cut with
the hoe, as many other garden crops. The
great enemy to the cabbage tribe, is the green
worm, commonly called the cabbage worm.
The miller that lays the egg, which produces
this worm, may be ssen fitting about, just
before night, through this and the next
month Each miller destroyed, save both
cabbage and corn, for the cabbage and corn
worm are both Matched by the same miller.
Fires built just before night in the garden,
will entice the millers into the blaze and de
stroy them.
WARTs-If they give you no special in
convenience, let them alone. But if it is Of
essential Importance to get rid of them, pur
chase half an ounce Of muriatic acid, put it
in broad -bottomed vial, so that it will not
easily turn over; take stick as large as the
end of knitting needle, dip it into the acid,
and touch the top of the wart with whatever
of the acid adheres 70 the stick; then, with
the end of the stick, rub the acid into the
top of the wart, without allowing the acid to
touch the we'll skin. Do this night and
morning, and safe. painless,and efectual
cure will be toe result.-HalTs Journal.
STAINS ON LINEN--Rub the stain on both
sides with yellow soft soap; mix some starch
in cold water to very thick paste, rub it
we'll into the stained part on both sides !;
place the linen on the grass, if possible in the
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