The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-07-31

ABOUT SIX years old and very active. Please give
remedy for disease .. Can use dynamite success.
lully III getting rid of logs and stumps? Is it in
clned to blow upward or downward? Please ten
me all about the use oft
l. You will probably have to blister it re-
peatedly. The biniodide of mercury ointment
is the best for the purpose. one Of the mercury
to eight of lard Rub in well and dress after
wards with simple lard. Repeat every ten
Gays until relieved. 2. In the hands of those
VINO nave had experience and have learned to
manage it dynamite has answered well for
oioWing up stumps, but we would not recon-
mend lis use to the Inexperienced. 1t is diff
cult to set it properly ''tamped."
W. H. NJ, Childerbprg Ala: VIII it poison melons
10 put paris green on the vines before blooming to
destroy insects?
A. H. r., Chidersturg, Ala: One Of our finest
melon growers uses paris green on his vines Some
OF our citizens claim is poisonous to eat the melon
don't think so. What is your opinion?
Ihere is no danger of the melon itself being
poisonous from paris green having been applied
10 the vines when young. Paris green is very
ihsoluble IN water, and there is no danger of
us pelng absorbed by the leaves when put on
'nem' Neither is there any appreciable danger
VI lts passing INTO the soil and being taken up
by the roots OF the plant The quantity applied
10 vine is very small and if it was all taken
up and distributed through vine, stem,
leaves and fruit, the dose in the fruit would DO
Intinitesimal.
H. NJ g., Minter, Ala: Please advise me how to
ueaV AstuIa. have fine mare, nine years old,
ana about three weeks ago her neck sweled up on
poth sides under the top hamestring and broke 1t
mas been discharging pus ever since. Can't explain
why the hstula came, she is strictly brood marc
and has never had collar on an hour in her life
Inc hole in the fstula seems to have proud flesh in
IT, You VIII confer quite favor if you will advise
me how to treat it,
Ii the fistulous canal or pipe extends down
any distance, make an opening into it at the
lowest point so the pus can escape readily.
Keep this cut open by inserting in it a piece of
cotton saturated with vasainc with little
carbolic acid in it. Wash out the fistula with
syringe and throw into it half a tablespoon
1ul of tincture of iodine daily for some days.
Tins will set up new, active inflammation in
place of that now present and healing will
gradually develop.
j. A. B., Graham, Ala: want your ideas about
what grass is best for me to on land of follow
ing description: Have two acres in cotton now
mat want to SOW just as you say and in what you
say One acre Of land is nearly level gray and little
sandy and toleraby rich; one-half acre of red land
not so good; onehaf acre that is good and part of
it branch bottom, rather wet for cotton or corn.
Want some for grazing and some to raise hay from.
Have no experience in grass clover; Just tell me
how you would manage it lift was yours.
1t is useless to attempt raising grass ON poor
or even ordinary land. The first thing for you
to do is to make your upland rich. This you
can do either by course of cropping or by
direct application of manure. BY the first
method you can SOW in rye this fall, manuring
it with 400 pounds of phosphate and 300 pounds
of cotton-seed meal or 80 bushels of green
cotton seed per acre. Next May SOW in peas,
applying 400 pounds of kainit per acre. In
August turn under the peavines and about the
middle of September sow grass seed. Would
advise for upland mixture of fall meadow
oat and orchard grass-two bushels Of each per
acre. Or, if you prefer not to wait so long,
you can get ready and sow grass next spring.
If you decide to do this, apply not less than
thirty two-horse wagon loads of barnyard
manure to the acre, as soon as the cotton crop
is removed. Plow it in at once. In February
broadcast 400 pounds of phosphate and 400
pounds OF kainit per acre and plow them in.
Then roll and pillow and harrow the land till it
is in fine filth, and about the first of March sow
seed. The bottom land can besSown this
autumn. Select time when it is in good
working order and break and harrow and roll
alternately until it is in fine filth, and about
the middle of September sow in herds grass
(red top), two bushels seed per acre. All of
the grasses named are adapted either for hay
or for grazing.