The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09

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! before another cotton season opens. Cheap
i ness we regard as an Indispensable qualiica-
| ton.
Subscriber Utica. Miss: When is the best tone to
! sow red clover, and should 1t be sown on uplands
that viii make from 500 to 600 pounds o. cotton to
the acre? Also alfalfa.
| If rains prevail and the ground is wet, Sep
TENDER is the best time to sow clover and
alfalfa. II the fall is dry, it is better to SOW in
early spring, about the first OF March. If the
soil has fair share Of clay in it, such lands as
! you describe will bring clover; it ought to be
I richer for alfalfa.
T. ]. NJ, Newton, Ala. l. What will take the
gickenng effect out of homemade tobacco
2 Please tell us how to make nice eaieable sugar
of sugar cane
3. Can bagsing be made OF cotton stalks? If SO,
why not Let jute go?
/. All tobacco is in one sense homemade.
Tho difference in quality depends partly upon
the kind Of soil upon which it is grown ana
partly upon the manner in which it is manipu-
lated. We are not sufficiently familiar with
the details OF the latter to answer your ques-
ton.
2. Strain juice and PCT at once in boilers,
add little lime and raise temperature to
about boiling point, but do not boil; remove
scum as it rises, and when all is taken off boil
to the sugar point, and then put in vessels to
crystalize After it has crystalized let the
molasses have full opportunity to drain off. A
good brown sugar may thus be made. Nearly
all the sugars now in the markets have under
gone q process Of clarifying, thing which
cannot be done proftably on a small scale.
3. The bark of cotton stalks is amply strong
enough to make good bagging. Whether it
could be gathered and prepared cheaply after
the cotton is picked out is question we are
not prepared to answer. 1t is certainly worth
looking into. No stone should be left I'M
turned to circumvcnt the bagging trust
G. W. j., Cars Station, Gu: have field of
about fifteen acres Of red land that has been past
ured for three years since 1t was last cultivated. 1t
now has coat of shamrock on il. wish to put
this field In bermuda grass. Would it do to sow 1t
is or would it be better to break it up let it lie
awhile and then SOW 1t? What kind of plow
ought the seed 10 be put in with? When is the best
time to SOW? If sowed say this fall, will it make
pasturage for next summer What is the Fight
quantity of seed per acre? About what does the
seed cost? Can it DO had at any first.class drug
store?
In the first place. reliable bermuda grass
seed is very hard to get. 1t natures so little
seed in this country that the little which has
been sown has been imported. The more
common method of propagation is to pillow in
pieces OF the underground stems, usually
called roots. These are washed and run
through q straw cutter and the pieces plowed
in from one to three feet apart. This may be
done at any time that the ground is wet
usually in early spring. 1t is too late now to
sow the seed--the young plants if they came
up would be killed by frost. Sow seed the last
of March, as bermuda is strictly summer
grass. Should not be grazed the first year.
10 Oh bo L.
prepare it as you would for cotton. Cannot
give information asked for about seed
p, Grovctown, Ca: Please publish best exterini-
nator for mites. The mites are so very Troublesome
that my hens cannot remain on nests to hatch eggs
Clean house out thoroughly burn all straw
or other nest material sprinkle ashes and lime
over the floor, and whltewash the whole inte-
rior with whitewash strongly impregnated
with crude oarbolic acid See that it gets into
every crack and crevice, in walls and roosting
poles. Make new nests, putting tobacco stems
in them freely. Repeat the whitewashihg
every two weeks. Provide dry busting baths
of ashes and keep them accessible to the fowls
ut all times.
Novice, Norcross, Ga Please give mesome simple
plan for constructing and heating hothouse on a
very simple plan. TO DO detached from dwelling 1
and prefer it to lie heated by wood fires. Give cost
and kind of building material used.
You will find some suggestions in answer to
a similar inquiry elsewhere. You can make
wall of house either of rock or brick; could
also make of wood, framing as usual, then
lacking u strip of building paper up and down
| between studding and in middle of studding.
The two edges of paper are bent around SO as
TO allow lacking to studs. Then each face of
stud is covered with paper; then inch-thicll
| strips nailed on outside of paper and plank
| Misunderstanding nailed over them. On the
strips inside ceiling is nailed. Such an arrange
ment gives four close air chambers in the
wall which viii keep in the heat very effect
ually The doors should also be double with
mir space between. The simplest plan of heat
ing is with brick fues, or a tlue of sewer pipe
well cemented ut the joints 1t is very diff
cult, however, to make these tiues 50 they will
not leak. A fireplace is made at one end of
flue Just outside of house the flpe runs along
the ground inside and terminates in pipe or
chimney al other end Of house Not prepared
| TO give estimates of cost. The cheapest mode
| of heating small plant house is to have a hot
water boiler in connection with cooking stove
andpipes running from it through plant house.
The tire used in cooking win do most of the
necessary heating.
w, 7. c., Miners Store, Fayette county, Ga: / /
want to know If sorghum seed is healthy for any
Sind of stock also, if syrup is good to iatten hogs
;. want to know Ii common waste suit has any
value rs a fertilizer used with other manures
S. What is the analysis Of ootton,seed meal
crushed huh and all, without the oil taken from
them
4. have twenty acres of land that have been
mauurAlg IN with cotton seed and stable manure
for several years; il is in cotton this year and viii
make baif bale per acre; weed large enough to
have made a bale OF bale aud half to the acre;
the crop was cut off third or nearly half 1 have
put up pine straw and leaves and the top of TIE
ground enough 10 put about four loads to the acre
have enough stable IN, nura 10 put one load per
acre. i will have cneugh cotton seed 10 put
twenty bushels per or its equivalent in crushed
seed. Shall use acid phosphate? Ii 50, how much
PER scre, ana how apIly?
Yes; good for mules. COWS, hogs and poultry,
but should not be fec alone or in largo quaint
os-should be fed in combination. There is
good deal Of tannin in the husks Of the seed
and it is constituting. 1t is better 10 feed the
whole head, instead of threshed seed and