The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-05-29

Subscriber, Cotton Gin, Texas: have mare
troubled with what is known as "hooks." Ought
10 nave them cut out, or can you give remedy that
will cure them?
Donot cut them. The trouble is inflammation
OF the eye and may come from disordered
stomach. Stop feeding ON grain and turn on
pasture. Give twice week a spoonful of
mixture of sulphur, copperas and saltpetre,
equal parts of each by measure, and put lit
tie weak solution of blue stone in eye.
h., Douglas, La l. Enclosed send you part of
plant Please tell me what species of clover it is
II 1t is clover, what it is called
= wish to experiment with clover. but know
very little about the different species have some
rocky land that is very bad to cultivate VIII
make about 1000 pounds yseed cotton per acre.
What kind of clover could you recommend for such
land?
g. Would it need much manuring? If so, would
COW lot manure and cotton seed meal answer?
Could not get nyeommercial fertilizer without too
much trouble and expense.
4. have some lucerne growing. 1t is 10 inches
hlgh at this date. Is it getting along very well.
how nigh ought it to get the first year.
o. VIII get any seed off of it to sow next Sep
TENDER Does it make seed the first year-was plant
ed last March.
G. Is lucerne hay as good as corn (blades) fodder.
some fodder is worth twenty dollars per ton; isn't
that rather high
4 Are artichokes as good to feed hogs on as sweet
potatoes. They are much easier raised
g. Would COW lot manure and cotton seed meal
and leached ashes be "a good fertilizer for lucerne.
D. Would there be any danger of using too much
COW lot anure and ashes-leachcd.
l. 1t is buffalo clover (rifolium refleXum),
quite widely found, but has never made any
Roadway as cultivated plant; does not form
a sward, but is solitary in its habits.
=. Common red clover, or alsihe clover, do
best in the south
). Clover will not thrive on poor land, but
ought TO grow well on such as you have, if the
soil is clay. Clover thrives best on lime and
clay soils. Cow lot manure is good; ashes best
OF all. Cotton seed meal not good for clover
except on very poor land.
4. Yes. very well indeed. Height varies
with soil and season. Two feet would be an
excellent growth.
5. Does not usually mature much seed first
season.
6. If cut when young and properly cured
without losing its leaves it is quite as good.
Z. Not altogether; the potato has smaller
percentage of water than the artichoke, but
the latter has the advantage of being moro
easily raised and of being more easily kept
through the winter.
8. Leave out the cotton seed meal the other
two very good.
9. None whatever.
j. II. j., Danton Ca: have Young mule which
be- ne lame in one hind leg at knee joint. 1t be-
came very much swollen and she bears no weight
on it when still. have tried liniment that would
peal off the skim and then tried blister salve but
it seems to give no relief VIII you give me remedy
and tell me what is the cause of lameness?
Disease is probably SPAWN. You may posi-
bly, cure it, if not too long standing, by blister
ing number of times with biniodide of mer-
curry One drachm OF the biniodide to eight
of lard. Dress blister, it will make, with pure
lard. Repeat the application of ointment in
ten days,
6. S. g., Douglassville, Texas: have a field in
which there is patch of bermuda grass that am
very anxious to get rid Of Will you please inform
me as to the best and cheapest way of exterminat-
ing it,
Plow Just deep enough to get under the
grass DO this in summer when it is hot and
dry. Bring the grass to the surface and let it
dry up. This is the easiest and most effectual
mode of destroying it.
E. NJ. H., Harlem, Ga: /. have seven or eight
acres of land wish to SOW down in peas when
cut my oats. 1 want to SOW the peas to improve
the land. What time would be best to SOW and
what time would be best to turn the vines under?
2. viii rye improve land by turning it under?
LIST. Sow peas as soon as you can after the
oats are taken off: We expect to plant some
tomorrow MAY 26th). If you do not propose
to SOW down the land in grain in the fall, let
the peavines remain on the surface till the lat
ter part of the winter. If you propose to sow
land in grain, turn vines under three or four
weeks before sowing the grain.
I'd. Yes, much more of it ought to be done.
Every bare cotton field should be seeded down
in rye in the fall.