Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-05-17
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HAVE A PLAN IN FARNIING.-The great
fault with American farmers is constant
desire for change. The farm is rarely
thought of as the home which the children
are to occupy during lifetime and then
leave to their heirs. There is too much
changing with the crops-first one thing and
then another, the result of which is a shifting
which is proftless. For few years it may
be that sheep raising is the leading feature
of the farm soon to be followed by rearing
a breed of cattle or cultivating hops, tobacco,
or even rhubarb. The general management
of farm should be planned once for all, 1T
only being subject to those changes that an
Improvement in agricultural methods sug-
gests. The work of farm should 60 on
regularly year after year, so that even IN
mid-winter the farmer may make his ar
rangements, and complete his scheme OF
work, for the whole season. The man who
is trying to sell his farm, has his heart in
some other locality or business, and he who
is ready to devote his energies to some new
crop or method, is seldom on the highway
to success. 1t is we'll to try that which Il IS
new, but not by giving up the old and we'll
triedmethods. Z ss ss% Z %& E
HEALTHFULNEss OF MILK.-1f any one
wishes to grow fleshy, a pint of milk taken
before retiring at night will soon cover
the scrawniest bones. Although nowadays
we see good many fleshy persons, there are
a great many lean and lank ones, who sigh
for the fashionable measures Of plumpness,
and who would be vastly improved In
health and appearance could their figures
be rounded with good, solid flesh. Nothing
is more coveted by thin women than full
figure, and nothing will so raise the ire and
provoke the scandal of the ''clipper-builds'
as the consciousness of plumpneSS IN
rival.
In cases of fever and summer complaint
milk is now given with excellent results.
The idea that milk is feverish has exploded,
and it is now the physicians great reliance
in bringing through typhoid patients, or
those in too low q state to be nourished by
solid food It is a mistake to scrimp the
milk pitcher. Take more milk and buy
less meat. Look to your milkman; have
large-sized, we'll filled milk pitchers On the
table each meal, and you will have sound
flesh and save doctors bills.
C1NDERs IN THE EvE.-Persons travelling
by railway are subject to continued annoy
ance by flying cinders. On getting into the
eyes these are not only painful for. the mo-
ment, but are often the cause long suffer
ing that ends in a total loss OF sight. A
very simple and effective cure is within the
reach of every one, and would prevent
much suffering and expense were 1t gener-
ally known. 1t is simply one or two grains
of fiaXseed.
These may be placed in the eye without
injury or pain to that delicate organ, and
shortly they begin to swell and dissolve a
glutinous substance that covers the ball OF
the eye, enveloping any foreign substance
that may be in it. The irritation of cutting
the membrane is thus prevented and the
annoyance may soon be Washed out. "A
dozen of these slowed away IN the vest
pocket may prove in an emergency worth
their number in gold.-hulia'stt State Sen
tiael.
PEARL, OR EGYPTIAN MILLET.-This is
quite distinct from all other species and is
without doubt destined to take place IN
the front rank of valuable forage plants.
Sown in light sandy soil, the plants at first
appear feeble, resembling broom corn; but
when few inches above ground they begin
to tiller, and new shoots appear very rapid
ly from the original root. The stems at
first are nearly PROSTATE, but when about
two feet long they begin to assume an up
right position, reaching height OF eight or
ten feet, not differing in color or substance
from our common Indian corn. When Guilt
waited for fodder, the seed should be dropped
in drills and given plenty of room, on ac-
count of the peculiar habit of tlllerlng; the
fodder is in the best condition for cutting and
curing when the stalks are five or six feet
high; but, if used for soiling, it might be
cut earlier or later, at the convenience OF the
cultiVatOr; the StumpS, SprOutlng ana throw
ing up new growth until killed by frost.
SOMETHING WORTH KNowING.-Butter
made in May and June can be kept sweet
and good until the ensuing fall and winter,
if one has cool place for storage; other
wise it is somewhat difficult. Roll butter
may be placed in tight caskets or tubs, ana
covered with strong brine. This will eX-
clude the air and keep the butter sweet IN
cool room or cellar. Orange county dairy
men use the following mixture in preparing
butter which is to be kept for some time ):
TO ten ounces of fine salt, add two ounces OF
saltpeter and two ounces of brown sugar.
The different ingredients are mixed togeth-
er, an an ounce Of this mixture is well work
ed into every pound of this butter. Will
lard, in his Clutter Book" says that butter
so treated, if closely packed and stored in a
cool place, will keep sound for several years.
gar The hog, like the horse, has no extra
stomach to store away food, therefore if fed
but twice day and what he will eat, he
OverlOads his stomach, and if the food is not
pushed beyond the point where it will di-
gest, the stomach is so full that consldera-
Bile portion of the food fails to come in con-
tact with the lining of the stomach, and
thus a very large proportion OF the nutrl-
ment in the food islost. Experiments prove
that hog thus fed wastes more than one
half of the meal given him. We have no
doubt the same is true of the horse, when
fed large quantities of hay and grain, and
fed but twice day.
AacI Indian corn has a value OF 64 as
compared with 103, the standard of hay as a
ration for stock, then potatoes would rank at
245 that is, it would take 1875 pounds Of po-
tatoes to fatten as far as Ga pounds of corn,
or nearly four times as much. Beets are
rated at 1886 pounds in the scale; thus, theO-
retically, it would take five times as many
pounds as of Indian corn but fattening is
not in question, but health. 1t is found in
practice with farm animals that the ration
of succulent vegetable food largely increases
the digestibility of grain and this is espe-
cially true with swine, to which roots are a
natural food.
RSP Did any one Of our readers ever think
how many steps farmer takes in a year I?
Take the Simple planting of field OF corn.
Take five acre field. TO break itu would
require walking some forty miles; harrow
ing it, ten miles furrowing it, 20 miles,
planting, II miles if with a planter, and if
dropped by hand and then covered, 20miles.
Thus it will be seen that it takes about 100
miles Of travel to MT in q five acre field of