Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-04-26
The farr1 aud firesiae.
HOMEMADE FERTILIZER.

HOMEMADE FERTILIZER -
live on the st. Mary's River, writes Mr..
w. P. Horne, Of Darbyville, Fla, in the
Florida Ag7ic,tltu1ist, and in the summer,
after my crop is made, and not having much
to do on the farm, take my boys and rake
up two or three hundred loads of top soil in
the river swamp, and haul it in to my cow
pens and let the cattle trample it for six or
eight weeks during August and September.
In October rake it up in large piles, say
five or six Ox-cart loads in pile; let it re-
main in piles until January or February.
About month before want to useit, l haul
in lot of rails and make my pens; / then
get cotton seed, oyster shell lime and salt.
| put in the pens thin layer of the tram
pied soil or muck, thin layer of cotton
seed, then sprinkle on some salt, then lime.
I continue these layers until get say tWen-
ty-fve loads of muck in a pen. TO pen OF
this size put 900 pounds of cotton seed,
two bushels of salt and one barrel of lime,
and let it remain month in that time the
Haul it out on the land at the rate of fifteen
or twenty loads to the acre and put it in
drills on any kind of crop, and I find it bet
ter than the best stable manure, as it does
not fire any crop in dry weather, as the sta
BILE manure is most apt to do. have used
the river muck without penning the cattle
on it, by composing with cotton seed, salt
and lime, and find it splendid manure.
In using this I also use Stockbridge fertili-
zer with it and put about two hundred
pounds of the fertilizer to the acre with the
compost. 1 find one acre well manured is
worth and will make more than two acres
successful in farming, feed my land well.
The idea is to make the land rich and keep
itso. A great many people visit my farm
and ask me, Chow is it that you make so
many crops on your land every year while
others make only one crop 2" This is the
very reason, keep the land rich by manu-
ring. It is just as easy to make three or
four hundred dollars to the acre as it is one
hundred. We must use a little brains as
we'll as muscle, and keep looking ahead and
try to do little more than Daddy did in his
lifetime. Now, Mr.. Editor, if these few
lines will only help one poor farmer shall
be richly paid for the trouble OF writing them.
The VALUE OF GOOD STOCK.-It is not
in the power of any class to monopolize the
privilege of breeding the best, and it is the
duty of every farmer to take heed and learn
lesson from the experience of those who
make a speciality of breeding for blood and
merit. Farmers admire good stock as high
ly as any class, but they are slow to avail
themselves of the advantages they possess.
A man who lately sold a high-priced colt
was not a farmer, he knew nothing of stock
raising outside of horses. He was not even
a Judge of any breed of horses except the one
he was accustomed to, and yet he disdalned
to raise scrub colt. What he has done can
be done by every farmer, and while it is not
expected that so large sum will be realized
for a young colt as S, 900, which he received,
vet it is an easy matter to raise one that will
sell far up in the hundreds. Are farmers
and stockraisers willing to be idle and see
novices Outsell them, and beat them at their
favorite pursuit But it is not the trotter
alone that brings the higher prices. A good
farm horse bred from first-class draught ma
terial, and of known blood, has marketa-
BILE price which is commanding. The scrub
is a parasite, and the farmer who does not
know better than to breed his mares to any
thing and everything because the fee is low
had better abandon his calling and leave it
to others to follow. AS with horses, so with
other stock. Inferiority in stock is the sign
post of bankruptcy, and points unerringly
to destruction, for experience has proved
that no farmer has yet been tirst-class prac-
titioner on the farm who did not keep a
close watch on the method of breeding his
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How BUTTER MAY BE SPOILED.-GOOd
butter may be spoiled in churning. Over
churning ruins the texture and changes the
proper WaXiness to a disagreeable, sickly
greaSiness. This is the more easily done in
a churn with dashers, which will press the
butter against the sides of the churn and
squeeze and rub it until it is spoiled. Too
long churning spoils the quantity by the
oxidation of the butter and the premature
formation of strong-fiavored acids in it, the
full presence of which we call rancldlty.
1t may be spoiled at too high temperature,
greasy texture and flavor. No subsequent
treatment can remedy this error. 1t may
be spoiled before the cream reaches the
churn by keeping it too long, or, what is
practically the same, by keeping it in too
warm place; 30 degrees is about the right
temperature if the cream is kept week;
if it is kept at 81 degrees three days is long
enough. White specks are produced in but
ter by Over-churning or by having the
cream too sour. Either of these faults pro-
duces curd in the milk, and the small flakes
of this cannot be washed out of the butter.
Milk from cow in ill health and that is
acid when drawn, will produce specky but
ter. So will salt containing specks of lime,
WllCll ullllS Will uueVSl tlllO III III III
soluble lime soap. While the specks are
covered up to large extent by using good
coloring, which is made of oil as the solvent.
But this use Of coloring being used to dis
guise fault, and to an undeserved virtue,
is worthy of denunciation.
MORE Fowls AND LESS PORK.-1t is
lust as cheap for farmer to live upon poul-
try and eggs half of the time as to live con-
tinually upon beef and pork. 1t costs no
more to grow fowls than hogs. They rustic
for themselves equally as we'll, and serve
as good purpose in picking up the waste
about the farm. They are more palatable
as food, are healthier and may be had fresh
at all times. This being the case, we hope
that the day is near at hand when every
farmers barnyard will be poultry yard,
and when chickens, turkeys, ducks and
geese will no longer be regarded as luxu-
ry, but become staple of the country and
adorn the tables Of the poor as we'll as the
rich. These birds cannot live on the COM
MONS hide their nests in the stack yards,
and roost in the trees, but they are healthy
and profitable if rightly managed. Too
many regard it an unimportant branch of
husbandry, and neglect to give it due con-
sideration. They say that chickens eat
their heads off many times in the year,
and that it don't pay to bother with them
even when eggs are worth fifty cents per
dozen and birds fifty cents each. The rea-
son of this is that they do not manage them
selves. There is no branch of farming that