Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-23

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INFLUENCE OF FORESTS. The telling Of
forests is known to be the cause of the drying
up of many stream, even large rivers having
been made to totally disappear through the
influence upon the climate of clearing the land
from wood. The classic lands of antiquity
abound with sad lessons of deforestation. The
springs and brooks of Palestine are dry, and
is four feet low 3r than in New Testament
days. The fruit illness of Sardinia and Sicily,
once the granaries of Italy, has disappeared :;
while most of the countries Of ancient civill-
zation have suffered from the desolating in
fluence of forest removal. On the other hand,
man can improve the condition of the land in
which he lives-more slowly indeed, but quite
as surely-by crltivating and preserving the
forests. In earlier years the delta OF Upper
Egypt was visited by but five or six rainy
days in year, but this number was increased
by the planting of twenty million trees to forty
five or fOrty-siX. Remarkable results have
been produced by the Suez Canal. 1smalia is
built on what was sandy desert, but since the
ground has become saturated with canal water,
trees, bushes and other plants have sprung up
as if by magic, and with the reappearance OF
vegetation, the climate has changed A few
years ago rain was unknown in those regions,
while in the year ending May, 1869, fourteen
days of rain were recorded, and once such
storm that the natives looked upon it as Il
supernatural event. Rains have continued to
visit the country thereabout, and so recently
as a few weeks since very heavy fall was re-
ported.
FENCES.-It is, of course, next to impOSSl-
BILE to do away with fences altogether. Divi-
sion fences of some kind are desirable, yet
thousands of miles of useless fences exist
throughout the country and which the thought
full farmer should seek to remove as circum-
stances will permit. Few realize how costly
fixture the farm fence is, and it is only by
the presentation of aggregate facts that al i'll
terest is aroused in the matter and attention
secured. Illinois is said to have ten times as
much fence as the whole of Germany, and it
is claimed that DutcheSS county, New York,
has more than all France, Germany and Hol-
land combined. A few years since, in South
Carolina, the improved land was estimated to
be worth S2O,000,00O, while the fences, at the
same time had cost $4,000, 900. The, annual
first cost. A calculation made some eight
years since, placed the cost of the fences in
the United States at $1,000, 100000. More
than forty years ago, Nicholas Biddle said the
fences in Pennsylvania had cost 500, 600, 600.
In Ohio they have cost a still larger sum, while
in New York, only a few years since, the esti'
mated cost of the fences was S144, 500, 600.
Some time in the future many fences now in
use will disappear, and boundaries will be
marked with fruit and shade trees or neat
hedge rows.
WHAT Is A HoME.-A home is a place
where character is formed, where education
goes on, and where eople are impressed fol
time and eternity. 1t is Il place to be happy in
and to start out for all good, honest, and earn
est living. Very great is her responsibility
who is queen of this kingdom. To very i'm.
portant extent, she makes OF mars its com
pleteness. A fretful, fault-fnding, narrow,
mother, can cloud home with misery, while
still she keeps a house we'll, and scrubs floors
till they are white as snow. But the recording
angel, surveying her performances, will surely
say: "This ought you to have done, and should
not have left the other undone." In home
there should be liberty without license, time
for family intercourse, and space for personal
sOlicitude, room for the entertainment OF
guests, and the maintenance of social life, and
over all tender, trustful, daily atmosphere OF
true devotion Or communion with God. All
this is not wholly but largely in the hands OF
her who is the central thought and the well.
spring of pleasure in every Christian home,
the dear, honored, and gracious mother. Let
nobody who is hOuSekeeper fear to manage
her Office 1t is very sacred one, and if she
performs it's duties faithfully, she is worthy OF
great praise.
USES OF Tainted meat, sur
rounded with charcoal, is sweetened; strewn
over heaps Of decomposed pelts, or over dead
animals, it prevents an unpleasant odor. Foul
water is purified by it. 1t is great disinfect-
ant and sweetens the air, if placed in trays
around apartments. 1t is so very porous in its
''minute interior" that it absorbs and con,
denses gases most rapidly. One cubic inch OF
fresh charcoal will absorb nearly one hundred
of gaseous ammonia. Charcoal forms an un-
'rivaled poutice for malignant wounds and
sores, often corroding away dead flesh, redu-
cling to one-Quarter in six hours. In cases OF
what we call proud flesh, it is invaluable. 1t
gives no disagreeable odor, corrOdes no metal,
hurts no texture, Injuries no color, is simple
and safe Sweetener and diSinfectant.
CATTLE AT PAsTURE.-''Theym must not,'
says the Ne,o England Farmer, ''be left out
too long after the feed becomes short without
extra feed at the barn. Itnever pays to starve
an animal if food can be bought or the animal
sold to some one who has food. We have
dwelt upon this so often that it seems almost
like useless repetition to allude to it again, and
vet we cannot drive three miles in any direc-
tion, across the country without finding cattle
that are growing poor for want of better keep
ing. This is especially true of COWS in milk.
Farmers have yet something to learn before
they will all have fat cattle and plenty OF fod-
der on hand at all seasons, but evident pro-
gress is being made. The cattle of the coun-
try, as whole, are in a much better condition
now than in former years"
CUT AWAY THE DEAD BRANCHEs.-The
Gardeners Monthly calls attention to the re-
Gently demonstrated fact that a dead branch
on tree make: almost as great strain on the
main plant for moisture as does the living one.
1t is one of the most important discoveries OF
modern botanical science to the practical hor-
ticulturist as by this knowledge he can save
many valuable tree When one has been
transplanted me roots get injured, and the
supply of moisture, in the best cases, is more
or less deficient Any dead branch, or any
weak one, should therefore be at once cut
away.
Be TuORoUGH.-When we see man Of
solid attainments, we know that he has worked
hard for his intelligence, and also that his be-
ginnings were characterized by thoroughness.
He laid his foundations deep and strong, and
built upon them with earnest diligence. This
is true of his life as he is Christian, as much
as it is of him as a man of intellect.
"a" There is no sovereign remedy for sick
headache. 1t is the signal of distress made by
the stomach to the brain. An excellent rene