Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-09-25


bells Chickens-Narrow Escape from a
Serious Slnash-U -Up-School Matters.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
FOREST HILL, September 23.-The
weather has been unusually hot for the
past week. Cotton is opening very
fast. Fields that were picked over six
days ago, are now as white as they
were before. The crop is going TO be-
much shorter than the farmers had
thought it would be before they COM
menced picking. On sandy lands the
bulk of the crop has already opened,
and if this hot, dry weather continues
two weeks longer, the cotton crop in
this section will he picked by the mid
die of October. Mr.. William Stanton,
who is one of our most observant and
successful farmers, says that the crop
in this immediate section will average
better than any he has seen, and that
there will not be more than two-thirds
of crop made here. The dry wealth
er of the past three weeks has blasted
the small top bolls and they will make
nothing.
All the intelligent farmers that 1
have talked to, seem to be of the
opinion that it pays to use guano, and
say that their cotton crops have been
shortened just in proportion that they
shortened the fertilizer. Mr.. Stanton
says that he did not use as much gu
ano on any of his crops as usual but
to prove that he is right about guano
paying, he says that in one field he
only put one sack to three acres, his
guano having run short. This three
acres was, he considers, the best land
in the field but now, while the weed
on it is as large as the rest, there is
not as many bolls by one-half.
Mr.. Ess Miller, one of our young
farmers, but au energetic and intelli-
gent one, says that he used guano !;
but not as much as usual. One of his
neighbors, who has better cotton land
than his, did not use pound. Now
MIR. Miller says the neighbor has
large weed, but scarcely any bolls on it !;
while his cotton is fairly well boiled.
Mr.. Miller says he is satisfied that gu
ano pays, and that the present short
age in the crop is in proportion to the
shortage in guano.
Mr.. Sam Clinton says cotton crops
will be short in his section; but corn
crops are fine and there has been an
abundance of"roughness" saved.
DR.. Campbell says he considers the
crimson clover crop, one of our best
forage crops. His idea is that the crop
should be followed first by corn and
then by wheat, and then cotton. The
clover, the doctor says, leaves too
much amonia in the land to suit cot
ton.
DR.. Campbell has several very fine
COWS but one that from her appear
ance and qualities as a milk and but
ter cow, would stand chance for the
premium at a cattle fair. DR.. Camp
bell says she is from imported stock
and is across of the Jersey with the
Short Horn.
DR.. Campbell not only takes an
interest in cows and hogs, but he is
quite chicken fancier, and assisted
by Mrs. Campbell, he succeeds in
raising great many. They are Of
the game variety, and he must have
several hundred on his different
walks. l asked the doctor if the
cholera ever attacked them. He re-
piled that he was not troubled with
that disease. From investigating the
disease carefully by examining the
bodies of chickens that had died with
cholera, he says he was satisfied that
they had all the symptoms of having
died of phosphorus poison-that is,
enlarged liver with inflammation of the
mucous membrane of the bowels. He
used as u remedy, salts and magnesi>
mixed with their food, and put few
spoonsful of turpentine in the trough
where they drank. This remedy,
when taken in time, is IL sure cure,
and if given as precaution, will pre-
vent the disease, especially should ii
be used in the spring when guano is
being scattered about, and the fowls
are likely to get insects and worms
that may have the phosphorus poison
Oh them.
Mrs. John Simril and her mother,