The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-05-22

could always have better luck setting in May /;
indeed, in April, if could get the plants. The
earlier the better, to insure full crop. Re-
plant, until a perfect stand is secured. For
cultivation. use only the rainwater cultivator
pillow after each rain. if it rains three times
week. Sometimes I plow my ground as
many as six or eight times before laying by.
use such plows on it, as will suit all stages OF
the crop, leaving them when done on slight
ped, or oval mound. Weed as often as neces-
sary to keep out the grass. When the vines
pegn to run, keep them clipped as much as
possible, and feed them to your mich cows.
DON'T let the vines root in the middle of the
rows. 1t will draw substance from the root,
and make the fruit small and stringy.
From the first to the middle of November is
the time to d;g-iust after the first killing
1rost. Try to dig on or about the full moon in
that month. Here comes in some more work
Tor the turning plow Run one furrow in each
middle with long rooter, to drag off the re-
naming vines. Take the turn pillow and bar
OFT the rows. Have the potatoes on the outside
picked up first; then burst the ridge with two
burrows, pile them in every third row, and
let them sun as much as possible before mov-
ing. In hauling, be as careful as can be not
to bruise or skin them. Put in dry spot, un-
der good shelter. Do not cover with any
thing but the vines, which should be shaken
till dry and thrown over loosely. Let this COW
ering be all, until the hard freezes force a
coat OF dry earth over this-about two and a
half inches thick. Nothing more is needed,
unless an approach OF a blizzard is imminent
then add moro dry dirt. UNCLE PETER.
A. W A.. Verona, Miss: 1 have mare seven
years old that lost fpal about 81 weeks She
was about five months gone. Since that time she
seems to ave been in toleTably coed health, but
makes water frequently. Stops often in the plow
and makes water in small quantities, sometimes
straining and emitting nothing at ALL Has taken
the horse several times since losing foal, and don't
think is in foal yet. Her first two colts were raised
without any trouble. Please give me cause of
trouble and remedy
The casting of the foal was probably due to
some Inflammation of the uterus or of ada
cent organs. The uterus may have been at
fault and through sympathy, involved the uri-
nary organs; or the latter may have been first
affected, and through sympathy affected the
uterus. The symptoms at present point to
kidney trouble. The best course to pursue is
to keep animal on green food as much as posi-
bic, give half pint OF linseed oil two or three
times week; and it would be well to feed
linseed meal pretty freely-say quart night
and morning, mixed with wheat bran. Avoid
giving saltpeter or other diuretic medicines.
A. c., Lincolnton, N c.: l. When COW peas are
sown TO improve land at what stage of growth or
when should they be turned under for best results?
2. Is one crop equal or superior to one year s
growth of clover?
8. Will cotton seed meal produce disease in hogs
so as to kill them?
Fer the last month I had fed as much ss one and
onehalf bushels cotton seed meal with four times
the quantity of wheat bran and cornmeal, and then
some corn extra, to eight hogs Last week fcu; of
them ed rather suddenly: would eat corn to the
last, but not meal We cut them open. and found
the cavity of the body entirely full Of slightly col
ored water; seemed to smother. The other four are
SO far doing WELL the four that died did so in forty
eight hours What was the cause if not cotton seed
mea2
l. If the peas are to be followed at once by
another crop, which will appropriate the pro-
ducts OF decomposition of the pea vines, the
latter may be turned under when in full bloors
or little after. If, on the contrary, the peas
are grown in one season to be followed by q
crop in the next, the weight of evidence is in
favor of letting the vines mature and remain
on the land till after mid-winter, before they
are plowed under.
.. If the clover is sown in autumn and al
lowed to occupy the land till the next autumn,
it will improve the soil more than one crop of
peas. Ii the clover is sown in the spring and
turned under the next fall, it would not be
equal to n crop OF peas.
3. If fed freely it probably will 1t is very
concentrated food. and all concentrated food
must be feed cautiously; in addition, cotton
seed meal has some peculiar properties that
appear to be obnoxious to some animals, and
destructive to plants also in the first stages Of
decomposition, when it is put in the soil. The
fact that your hogs finally refused the cotton
seed meal, is pretty sure indication that it
was not good for them.
Subscriber, Summer eld: have a mule that has
a rumhling nCt,e inside. He is thin IN flesh and
has poor ape'ite; has the lampas very badly
What must do for him. viii giving copperas to
mule cause his teeth to decay.
The rumbling sound is due to gas moving
about in the intestines, and the formation of
gas results from imperfect digestion. The
swollen condition of the gums Qampas) also
points to disordered stomach. Give half
pint of lnseed oil every other day, as long as
the animal will bear it without running off at
the bowels too much. Feed on oats and give
the following: Two drachms each of copperas,
sulphur and gentian, every night Giving
copperas unmixed with other things for some
time would probably injure the teeth, but
mixed as it should be, with a goodly quantity
of bran or meal, it would do no appreciate
harm.
J. u. j., Tarboro n. c.: A neighbor has a mule
with large seed wart on his left fore ankle. have
nearly cured the wart but symptoms of sweeny have
appeared in left shoulder What shall do for the
sweeny?
Almost any affection of the shoulder passes
under the name of Sweeney" particularly if
there be any shrinkage. Anything which
causes an animal not TO use its fore leg much
will after awhile be accompanied with a
shrinkage from the muscles getting smaller in
consequence of disease. Rheumatism or in
flammation'of the shoulder joint will bring this
about. So may obscure inflammation of the
parts in the interior of the hoof. Has the
wart on the mule in question interferred with
the use Of the leg? If so, it may come right
again when the wart is cured without any adj
ditional treatment. 1t may be well, however,
to rub the shoulder twice day with the fol-
lowing liniment: Camphor, one ounce; spirits
turpentine and alcohol each, three ounces.
sH. S, Ravema, TexI have good young mule
that has considerable hump raised the point OF
his shoulder Something near the size ola egg.
The mule was broken TO work last summer TO a
rea Der, and from that to an eisht-horse power