Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-05-14

TEACHINGS BY A SAGE.-This is the ad-
vice of an old farmer who has titled the soil
for upwards of forty years: ... 81
am an old man of upwards Of three-score
years, during two of which | have been
rich always have all need; do not owe a
dollar; have given my children good edu-
cation, and, when am called away, shall
leave them enough to keep the wolf from
the door. Ny experience has taught me
that
l. One acre of land we'll prepared and
well titled produces more than two kept on
the same amount of labor used on one.
3 One COW, horse, mule, sheep or hog,
we'll fed, is more profitable than two kept
on the same amount necessary to keep one
we'll.
wheat, fodder and hay, can keep the sheriff
from the door in the end.
/. The farmer who never reads the pa
pers, sneers at book farming and improve
ments, always has leaky roof, poor stock,
brok ken-down fences, ard complains Of "bad
seasons"
5. The farmer who is above his business
and entrusts it to another to manage soon
has no business to attend to.
CUTTING OFF THE TIMBER.-Only the
other day we learned that a leading farmer
of our State had been caught in blizzard
in Dakota, when going to his new ranch,
and was afterWard found frozen to death.
1t came like shock to all Of us who knew
him. An intimate friend of his, a devOut
man. knelt with his family that morning,
upon receiving the sad intelligence, and
thanked God that they lived in a State far
removed from the terrible winds that come
upon men like murderers in the night, de-
stroying life and desolating households. A
few moments thereafter, he sent his men
to the little wood lot that had been preserv-
ed at the back of his farm, saying: "Boys,
/ have decided to cut it all off; can sell
the timber for enough so that the interest of
the money will always keep the house in
wood, and what we can raise on the land
will be clear gain" What strange incon-
sisistency Thanking God one moment for
conditions which prevent blizzards, and
the next, with axe in hand, doing the very
best to bring the blizzards to his door,
Gtos. W. Garfield, IN Vick's Magazine.
STRAw-In the hands of a skillful feed
er who knows what food to give with straw
to make up the deficiencies, it is worth more
than half as much as good hay. A ton of
oat straw mixed with ton OF the best clo-
yer hay, would make mixture equal in
value to ordinary meadow hay. And 400
pounds of linseed or cotton seed meal, mix
ed with a ton of straw, would give 2,40O
pounds of fodder, equal in value to 2,4O0
pounds of meadow or Timothy hay. This
gives an important food value to straw,
and the point to be we'll considered is, that
nearly all that is digested in the straw has
no value as manure. Nitrogen, phosphoric
acid and potash are the only valuable man.
ure elements, and scarcely any one of these
Il okoI ,fr hot or IS
cally as valuable as manure when fed as
when not fed. Straw should be used as food
| and all its value saved.
Hg> It may not be known to some house
wives that if flour is kept in closet with
onions or cabbage it will absorb unpleasant
OdOrs from them; you may not notice TINS
until the flour is cooked, but then you will.
A large chocolate and cocoanut cake was
| prepared for a tea party not long since. 1t
was not tasted until it was passed at tea
time, when the mistress observed a strong
onion flavor, which though an excellent one
in it's proper place, was here thing of evil.
1t was discovered afterward that a basket
containing onions had been left for two days
in the store room with the flour, and every
thing, even the bread baked from this flour,
had the onion flavor.
Ba5a Those thrifty housekeepers who make
soap at home will find it greatly to their ad-
vantage to prepare in this way the fat that
! is to be used: No matter how small the
quantity of tallow or suet is that is not to
be cooked with the meat, fry it out and let
it form a clean little cake; put this away in
an old tin pail with cover, then when you
have enough to pay for the trouble make it
into soap; you will thus have perfectly pure
and clean soap tor dish washing, and if you
use it to cleanse the clothing also, you will
see that it will look better and will have
ndnr than If uaShnd with anV Kind