The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-14

taken from twelve to eighteen months to make it
pure from apples
Gather peas and beans rs soon as ripe, dry
thoroughly, and then put in jugs or bottles,
putting pieces of cotton, saturated with tur-
pentine, in mouth before stoppering. The
vapor of turpentine will diffuse itself through
the seed and kill the larva of the bugs. We
have not much experience in vinegar making,
but it is customary to put the cider other
material i'll the sun TO hasten the process.
G. A. c., Cunituck c. H., N. c.: l. have some
fine peach trees in bearing order that bear fine
hut, but as soon as they begin TO ripen they rot
on the trees before they get ripe, Would like TO
have some good remedy to prevent rot and save my
fruit, if possible Also give information to the
best way to lime land in fall that has been sown in
peas, whether sow lime top of vines and pillow in
or plow in vines and sow lime on top of powed
ground?
l. The peach rot is caused by fungus. 1t
can be prevented by putting paper bags around
the fruit soon after it is formed, so that the
spores (or seeds) of the fungus may not fall
the fruit 1t is also stated ON good authority
that busting the fruit few times with pow
dered sulphur will ward off the rot The sui
phur is blown out of a-bellows made for the
purpose. .. Opinions differ. We prefer to
turn under the vines and scatter lime on sur
face afterwards.
A. V. A., Northport Ala: / have some fine Berk-
shire hogs. One SOW had pigs in February, and
when the pigs were about two weeks old two of
them contracted "a disease like a child with q bad
cold; they were several days with their mouths
open and gaping for BREATH as if the nose was
ureiy stopped up. | also have u SOW which had
pigs i'll june and some of her pigs were affected the
same way. Please tell me what the disease is and
remedy see q subscriber of Talbotton, Ga has
n,,ifc l,;a
had some diseased the same way. use for remedy
coal tar mixed with grease, and find it q cure
Apply the mixture freely twice in two weeks.
Hogs take cold as persons do, and that was
probably the case with yours. Let their beds
be dry, but not dusty.
II. G. L., Plantersville, Ala: Please tell me when
is the best time to cut milo maize and kailr corn
for forage. VIII 1t do to feed to stock green when
cut TO cure for feed?
Both milo maize and kafiir corn may be cut
when two or three feet high and fed green.
They will spring up again and may be cut a
second time, and if rains are abundant will
spring up third time OF more. But the
quality of the forage is not the best when cut
at this carly stage. The stalk and leaves are
most nutritious after the heads are formed and
the seed are in the "dough" state. AT that
stage they are best, both as green feed and also
when cured as dry forage.
Us. H, Pine Bluff, Ark l. When is the proner
time to cut peGvines for hay? How should they be
cured? q have mare that continually rubs the
root OF tail against trees and fences; will back
against tree and put whole weight against it, rub
bing has passed from bowels several worms about
eight inches long and the size of lead pencil in
center, tapering to point at each end. Worm has
no sign OF life and seems to be solid and the color
OF White horn. The mare has a good appetite and
is in good order, but won't get real fat Please tell
me what the worms are and give q remedy
1. Cut when the first pods that appear are
about grown, but still green In general it
may be stated that they should be cured in the
shade. There are several ways of doing this
In all cases cut when dry, no dew nor rain
upon them. AS soon as little wilted-not
dry-they may be put in small, high, but
narrow shocks. These should be very care
fully made, pressed up on the sides so as not to
spraddle out, rounded and dressed off at the
top to shed rain. Let them remain undis-
turbed in these shocks till about half cured,
then make one larger shock out Of several of
these smaller ones, building them up in like
manner. Let them remain in these till we'll
cured, and then house. Another plan is to
rake up q portion of vines and roll them over
and over the cut vines until good-siZed COM
pact cylinder is gathered these can be readily
handled and may be set on end under shelter
to cure. Another is to hang the vines on poles
under shelter, doing this rs fast as they are
cut. Another is to partially trim up pine sap
lings, leaving the main limbs projecting three
feet from the trunk, near the ground, and
gradually shorter towards the top. Pile brush
around the base and then stack up the green
vines around the tree thus arranged. The
limbs will prevent their settling down too
closely, and as they dry the shrinkage will
admit sufficient air to cure them. Another is
to cure in pole or rail pens, making an open
rail bottom a foot from ground, filing in with
peavines depth of two feet, then putting in
another floor of rails filling in again. and SO on
till the zen is completed; then put a roof over
the whole. 2. Sometimes there is local i1ri-
tation of the skin adjacent to root of tail it is
probable, however, that the trouble in your
mare comes from worms irritating the rectum.
To remove them give a drachm OF copperas
and the same of gentian daily for a week or ten
days, and then give few half-pint doses Of
linseed oil every other day.
Nc, Jackson, Ga: send you two species of grass.
Would be glad to have you say what they are
No. ], the bladed grass has been on nv place
for number Of years and is fine to cut to feed
green; comes up early and by cutting often keeps
tender and lasts until frost stock fond oft No q
There is division of opinion about this Some say
it is bermuda grass, Others say not. Is there more
than one species of bermuda grass?
No is known as gamma grass, is rather
widely distributed through the south. 1t is
rather coarse, but hardy, grows in tufts and
has never been cultivated to any extent. The
other grass, which you think may be bermuda,
is not 1t has somewhat the habit OF bermuda,
but does not spread as readily, and is much
more easily controlled There is but one kind
of genuine BERMUDA you may recognize it by
its having two and sometimes three leaves at
joint; other grasses have but one.
j. r. b., Oxford, Ga. Do you mean, in your mes.
sage TO farmers this week. 10 advise sowing rye in
cotton fields at last blowing in August? If So win
not the young rye DO greatly damaged by cotton
pickeis during the coming months as they 20
through gathering the cotton? Please advise treat.
ment Of land with ppe-clay subsoil making 1t diff
cult to raise good corn crops
The trarnping will not materially iniure the
rye. The greatest objections to sowing as early
as August are that on rich land the rye makes
too much growth before frost and has to be
grazed to keep it down, which is not always
a