Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-16
CHE faru, aud firesiae.
THE CORN CROP.

crop of the United States. ltS cOnSuIup-
tion is increasing annually throughout the
world, and when not produced in any other
country it is mainly imported from ours.
Our production has reached the enormous
quantity of two thousand millions of BUSH
els, worth at the average price OF forty
cents, $500, 1000. Its money value is the
greatest of all farm crops, except, possibly,
hay. These crops constitute the basis OF
food for live stock and all domestic ami
mails, and, to large extent, for mankind.
If farmers do not care to worry their
minds about the effect of agricultural pro-
ductions on the general wealth of the coun-
try, they will admit the fact they have a
pleasurable feeling, when in the month OF
April, they can look into their corn cribs
and see that their supply is sufficient for
the year, and that there will be no stint OF c
bread for their families, or of grain for their
animals. This feeling is incentive enough
for them to regard this crop of great i'm
portance to them. 1t is useless and unWlse
to bother their minds about prospective
market price, for, up to the point OF nee
essary farm supply, it will be no difference
whether corn will be worth ten cents or one
hundred cents bushel. The surplus, after
an ample farm supply, is net gain to all
farmers, but deficiency is serious and
inconvenient loss to them.
It ought to be assumed that all American
farmers do understand how Indian corn
should be cultivated, for it was found here
when the first colonists were settled, two
hundred and eighty years ago, and has
been an abiding and Increasing staple ever
since. But the most casual observer OF
the present day will see that its cultiva-
ton by many farmers is sadly indifferent
and unyielding. Fall and winter ploWing,
as rule, is much neglected on clay lands,
SO that the pulverizing effects of frost are
lost and a good tilth impossible; whilst
light and loamy lands may be best pioWed
in the spring, just before planting, yet the
work on these is generally hurried and bad
ly performed. The most damaging mis-
take in either case which farmers make IS,
that they measure their crop by the extent %
fail to see that ten acres we'll prepared, man.
ured and cultivated, will make largely more
than fifty acres badly prepared and culti-
waited without manure. The case, fairly
stated will stand thus: Ten acres, forty
bushels each, 400 bushels; fifty acres, five
bushels each, $50 bushels. This presents a
gain of nearly one hundred per centum in
the crop, whilst the ten acres, thus cultlva-
ted, have doubled their value, and the fifty
acres have deprecated. And the further
thought and fact comes in, that the labor
expended on the excess of forty acres was
equal to all the demands for the extra cul-
tivation and manuring of the ten.
The substance of what we have SAID OF
corn applies to all other crops, ana II IS wen
for farmers to consider earnestly (making
experiments to ascertain facts) how they
NAV be benefited by thorough cultivation
and Misunderstanding surfaces in these
respects-and also by rotation and drainage,
which are fundamental factors in successful
agriculture. .-iSouthern Planter.
n@ Farms ought to he the healthiest places
in the world. individuals cannot control
cities and prevent epidemics arising from
filth and other unhealthy conditions, but
farmers can control their farms in this re-
spect. Fevers are quite common on farms.
This should not be so. No farm, OF healthy
location, should ever have case of fever on
it. Some farmers allow weeds to grow
around their houses till they attain Inn
mense proportions, then cut them down and
allow them to lie and decay in piles. per-
haps in the shade. Some door-yards are so
shaded that they never dry out. Some TAR
mers allow great piles of potato tops to lie
near their door-yards and decay. On a
farm there are always more or less decaying
vegetables around the yards and especially
at the most sickly season when peach and
apple skins are thrown around and allowed
to accumulate with the sWeepings of the
house and other filth of the yard, which in
process of decay emit carburetted hydrogen
and other deleterious gases, which IN sea-
sons of frequent rains, followed by hot suns,
render the farm yard unhealthy. Every
farmer can procure road dust and keep it
dry, and after every rain sprinkle his door
ward. Dry earth is the best disinfectant in
the world, and every farmer should keep a
barrel of dry road dust on hand, using 1t
freely around his house in summer, and
around his barn, chicken coop and pig pens
the year round. 1t is so cheap that it is not
appreciated as disinfectant, but ii farmers
would use more road dust they would have
less sick children and less doctor bills.
How TO CULTIVATE EPEANUTs.-Any dry
soil will answer. Let the ground be well
pulverized, leaving an even surface. Get
fresh nuts break them out Of the shell, and
plant them about the time of planting beans,
two inches deep, in hills three feet apart,
and the rows five feet apart. Plant two ker-
nels in a hill, but if both come up, trans
plant one of them without in any way dis
turbing the other. AS soon as the plants are
up, hoe and keep them clean. When they
run and begin to show blossoms, cover the
vines, blossoms and all, with about an inch
OF edrCn Cdkeu DcGNSCh VIC AoNo'
With good cultivation the vines grow fast,
and must be covered, always leaving the
top of the runner just peeping out of the
ground. Ass soon as the leaves are touched
with frost dig the nuts, leaving them cling
ing to the vines. Now the nuts must be
we'll dried. This can be done by hanging
up the vines, or stripping them Oft and
spreading them on the floor or any way so
they will not mould. In yield | have an
average of over quartto each plant. There
are two varieties of plants, one called red
and the other white. 1 would by all means
prefer cultivating the white, because they
Stand first in the market.-Erchonge.
CURE FOR FOUNDER.-A recent writer
gives this remedy for lameness occasiOned
by infiammatory fever in the foot OF the
horse, with assurance that it is a perfect cure.
"Clean out the bottom of the foot thor
oughly-hold up the leg so as to bring the
bottom of the foot upward, holding it firm
ly in horizontal position and pour in, say
a tablespoonful of spirits of turpentine, II
the cavity of the foot will hold that much,
if not, pour in what it will hold without
danger of running it over; touch the tur-
pentine with a red hot iron this will set
it on fire; hold the hoof firmly in position
until it all burns out. Great care must be
taken that none runs over on the hair OF the
hoof, lest the skin be burned. If all the
feet are affected, burn turpentine in each of
them. Relief will speedily follow, and the
animal be ready for service in a short time.
1t is affirmed that animals treated in this
manner have been promptly relieved. In
one case, although suffering more than
twenty-four hours when applied, in less than
an hour afterWard the animal was fit for use
and travelled some distance, all lameness
disappearing.
WORTH KNOwING.-That small doses of