Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-12-08
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a ASUGGEsTION.-Landt that is rich enough
to make bale of cotton to the acre, says
the New Orleans Picdy,tae, in discussing the
corn and cotton problem, will produce un.
der proper cultivation, with good season
thirty-five bushels of corn and half thai
amount of clay peas, or about fifty bushels
of corn and peas. In ordinary times these
can be sold for about one dollar per bushel
Now make comparison with cotton plant
ing. If man plants and cultivates all the
peas and corn he can save, and plants and
cultivates all the cotton he can make and
save, which crop will bring the most clear
money after all expenses in sending to mar
ket are paid? The corn, peas, hay, and en-
riching the land by the pea crop, will GER
tainly give these decided advantage over
cotton. There are plenty of farmers in the
West who do not make more than fifty
bushels of corn to the acre, and sell corn al
25 cents a bushel, equal 10 $3.50 an acre. A
good farmer on almost any kind of land in
the South, properly fertilized with pea vines
and other home fertilizers, should make
twenty to twenty-five bushels of corn to the
acre, and pea crop besides, the whole
worth $40 to $40 per acre. Why, then, will
not corn in the South pay? Besides, home
made corn sold to non-prOducers in the
South prevents so much money from leav'
ing the country, while Western corn takes
money from the South to return no more
then corn in the West that is made into
whisky is sent into the South and takes the
balance of the profit.
The BEST MONEY CRoP.-The best mon
ey crop that the farmer can. produce upon
his farm, is the manure crop. Let US once
consider manure as crop, and the one upon
which all other crops depend-let US come
to see and consider that, so many pounds OF
tobacco or 80 many barrels of corn per acre
depends upon producing first 80 many loads
of manure per acre, then we will begin to
take as much interest in producing q. good
crop of manure as in growing a big crop ol
corn, &c.
A big crop of manure on the farm is
worth more for producing large crops ol
other things, than everything else combin:
ed. Cultivation, the best seed, the most
propitious seasons. are as nothing compared
to manure. The fall is the time to start out
on manure crop. Litter all the stalls and
keep them Uttered; mulch the fields; com.
post the rubbish collect dead trees and logs
and burn them for ashes; gather everything
about the farm that will resolve itself into
manure, and keep on in the same line all
winter, for the manure crop.
IDLENEss.-Never be idle. Idleness
means ruin just as stagnation means decay
You can catch better things than early
worms by rising early in the morning.
sometimes that will paint your cheek!
quicken your pulse, brighten your eye, and
breakfast pleasure, dinner a treat, tea a
delight and-no room for supper. Besides.
it's only one early bird that catches the
worm. Every early boy can catch the ben
eft speak of. And what the boy learns to
love the man will turn to account, while his
hay will be better and more abundant, than
the idler's, his corn, his carrots and his Gu
cumbers will be finer, better and more
abundant, too; and just when the idle man
is thinking that he ought to have fortune,
the early one will be wrapping his up and
running off to the bank with it. The boy
who says it's music to hear the milk-man
and chimney-sweep from beneath the sheets
will most likely take to his bed to escape
his creditors by-and-by.
AN OLD-TIME SUPERsTITIoN.-Farm
are not without their superstition, and one
is that "wolf teeth" affect the sight of a
horse. This is an ancient belief and one
entirely without foundation, but is so firm
ly believed by many that nothing will
convince them of their error. The name
is given too small, supernumerary teeth
which occur occasionally in the mouth
of horses just in front of the first molar
or grinding tooth, usually in the upper jaw,
but occasionally in the lower. In colts
these are often crowded out by the perna-
nent teeth, but are occasionally curved in
wards. TO be sure they may cause the
horse considerable trouble in masticating
his food on account of biting his tongue,
but it is absurd to attribute any disease OF
the eye to their presence. If they Interfere
with the horses eating it is better to re-
move them, but for any influence on the
eye they might just as well remain. They
can easily be removed by extracting with
forceps or by holding wooden pin against
the tooth and striking it smart blow.
MILK AS AN ODOR ABsoRBENT.-Those
dairymen who do not believe in the power
of milk to rapidly absorb and become con-
taminated by surrounding noxious smells
will do we'll to try the following simple test,
the results of which will, doubtless, imme-
diately convince the most skeptical: Take
a wide bowl or soup plate to the cow stable
when you 60 to milk pour into it a pint OF
fresh milk, set it on the floor or at the height
of milk stool, so as to expose it fully to the
air of the stable, behind and close to the
CoWSs IL ltIC Ooy 10 SIOOO anu AiSdSy uuN
the milk is cold, and the stable not cleaned
out and aired, the result will be surprising.
Take it to the house or anywhere away from
the stable, and try to drink it.-Scientyfc
american.
MORE MUTToN-FEWER WRINKLES
We must increase the size Of our stock, not
by crossing with other breeds, but by judi.
cious selection of larger, better constitution
ed merinos, having fewer wrinkles, less
grease and longer staple. 1t can be done,
tion and good keeping. Other breeders OF
fine wool sheep, who have found their sales
falling off since the decline in the price OF
wool, are taking the same view Of the situ-
alton. They will endeavor to get the wrin.
kled merino pelts to unfold, smooth out and
cover larger carcass. twill not longer do
to ignore the mutton value of q sheep in adj
dition to what it can do in the production
of fine wool.-Neao England Farmer.
LATE SEEDING WITH the
surface is in fine filth, timothy seed may be
sown almost until time for freezing up of the
ground. 1t will be covered sufficiently by
freezing and thaWing Of the soil in win
ter and without injury to the seed. 1t is
much more hardy than clover or any kind
of grain. But this late-sown timothy will
not be forward enough to cut next season.
With winter grain crop this is an advan.
tage, as in too large growth of grass the
grain is often injured.
SEEDING WITH GRASS ALoNE.-Where
grass is the most profitable crop, as it NAV
be in favorable localities, the general desire
to get good seeding makes other crops sub.
ordinate. This has led to sowing grass seed
without grain. It should always be done in
the fall, and the earlier the better, provided