Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-12-04
The farn1 aud fireside.
TRAINING BOYS FOR THE FARM.

TRAINING BOYS FOR THE FARM.
It is not to be expected, nor is it to be de-
sired, that every boy on a farm should be
farmer Some will have genius for and
must seek living in other callings. Still
it is best, no doubt, that the majority OF
| farmers boys should themselves follow the
same calling as their fathers, best for them
and best for the country.
But how to keep the boys on the farm,
and how to train them into good, practical
and progressive and successful farmers are
questions often asked and seldom answered.
We believe it depends almost entirely on
the home training the boy receives as he
grows up. 1t is as natural for boys to dis
| like hard work and ceaseless drudgery, as
it is for city bred people to be fond of show
and excitement, and if the home life OF the
farmer boy is all work and no relaxation,
rest and reasonable amusement, it Is not to
be expected that he will grow up with a
love for farm life.
TO make long story short let US say,
in our humble opinion, the best way in the
world to keep boy on the farm ana cause
him to become, a good, industrious and sue,
cessful farmer is to give him a little farm OF
his own while he is a boy, and encourage
him to cultivate and improve it. Give the
boy twenty-five or fifty acres of land, with
the promise that it shall be his with more
added when he becomes man, and give
the MEANS aid and encouragement necessa-
ry to enable him to work it.; tell him that
all the crops and stock he can raise shall be
his own to use in a proper manner, as in
the purchase of clothes, books, education,
etc., and then allow the boy ample time to
work his little farm, even all his time II
necessary, and if that boy has any energy
or acquisitiveness at all, he will soon be
seized with new spirit, a new light will kim
die in his eye, he will soon take an abiding
interest in his work and will come to love
it. This is the way to keep him on the
farm.
If fathers would give some of their boys
this sort of chance and training, the boy
would soon be a better farmer than the old
man. The boy would become self-support-
ing at an early age, and would grow with
self-reliance and practical knowledge in
stead of that irresolutiOn and indecision we
often see. Let fathers take an interest in
their boys and help them to make them
selves men of industry and sagacity. Is it
not infinitely better to give the boys this
help and start in life than to wait till you
die for your property to be divided and per-
haps squandered ?-Petersd,ug In!er-Appedl.
standing the obscurity that surrounds the
beginnings of agriculture in different re-
gions, it IS settled, says writer in Popular
.Science Monthly, that the dates vary exceed
ingly. One of the earliest examples of cul-
tiVated plants is drawn from Egypt, in the
shape of design representing figs in one OF
the pyramids of Gizeh. The date of the
construction of the monument is uncertain ;
authors vary in assigning it to from fifteen
hundred to four thousand two hundredy years
before the Christian Era. If we assign it to
two thousand years before Christ, we would
have an antiquity of four thousand years for
the fig. Now, the pyramids can have been
constructed only by numerous people, or"
ganized and civilized to a certain degree,
who must consequently have had an estab-
lished agriculture, going back several centu-
ries, at least, for its origin. In China, tWen-
ty-seven hundred years before Christ, the
Emperor Chenngun introduced ceremony
in which, every year, five species of useful
plants were soWn-viZ.: rice, SOFA, wheat
and two kinds of millet. These plants must
have been cultivated for some length oftime
in some places to have attracted the atten-
tion of the emperor at this period.
Agriculture seems, then, to have been as
ancient in China as Egypt. The constant
| intercourse of the latter country with MesO-
.uSlluto III Gi'o Sui.i
walton was almost cOntempOraneOus in the
regions of the Euphrates and the Nile.
Why may it not have been quite as ancient
in India and the Indian Archipelago? The
history of the Dravidian and Malaysian peo-
pie does not 60 back very far, and is very
obscure but there is no reason for presum-
ing that cultivation, particularly on the
banks of the rivers, did not begin among
them very long time ago.
How TO KEEP SAUsAGE.-A writerin the
South aad Vest, gives the following on
keeping sausage until spring:
GAS soon as possible after making your
sausage make out in small cakes, and fry
until done. Remove from the skillet and
pack closely in stone jars until within five
or six inches of the top, and then fill to the
top with melted lard. After the lard has
cooled examine closely and if there are any
holes fill them with melted lard. Tie close.
ly and set away in the cellar until wanted
for use. When you desire to use 1T take
out what you wish for one time and set in
the oven till the lard is melted, which
pour back to exclude the air. Pour some
warm water over the sausage while hot,
cover, and let steam for few minutes. Pre-
pared in this way it will keep for months
and be almost as nice as when fresh."
ONE OF THE SECRETS OF GOOD HEALTH.
a large part Of children's sickness, and Of
adults, also, might be prevented by adopt
ing proper way of chewing the food.
Some think the only method of getting
through meal, is to stuff the. mouth 10
overhowing, and then bolt down the contents
as quickly as may be. Such doings will, in
time, play fearful work with the organs, Of
digestion; and when one finds out to his
pain that he has a stomach, it is too late to
remedy matters. One of the secrets of a
strong and long life is to eat slowly, chew
the food thoroughly and leave the table feel
ing that it were possible to eat something
more. A man can make out better on half
meal than on an over-profusion of eatables.
A PRINCIPLE IN FEEDING.-All food be-
yond such amount that is properly digested
and assimulated by the animal is a source OF
loss to the owner, and that in two ways:
First the food is lost: and second, the ami