The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18

nately for tbfrty-slX hours before death; sweated
very copiously for two three hours at the last.
with frequent passages Of the bowels. neighbor
opened her and made ali examination and says the
lungs were almost a mass of blood, with water
about the heart, and pronounced her disease lung
fever. Now. do you think, from the light before
you, that he is correc;? you think it contagious?
Ii he is correct, what would be anudote? If you
think it is something else give its name and anti
doe for same
Lung fever is usually accompanied with hur-
ried breathing and GOODNESS of the legs and
ears as the disease advances. You do not
mention any of these symptoms. Should
rather suspect inflammation of the bowels to
have been the cause of death. This is not
contagious, neither is true lung fever, for the
latter is simply what is termed pneumonia in
man. Inflammation of the bowels is best
treated by applying blankets wrung out of
boiling water to the belly. renewing every
twenty minutes, and giving injections of warm
water with soap and salt every half hour.
Don't bleed or give purgatives
r. NJ G., Gilmer, Texas: have lost two calves
and third one is sick. They swell at the root of
the tongue, then the swelling makes its appearance
on the outside, between the jawbones then up the
nose to the eyes Please tell me what is the matter
with them, aud what shall do for them.
Your calves have probably one of those dis
eases resulting from the absorption of fer
menting poison in the blood The indications
are, as the doctors would say, to strengthen
the system with tonics and destroy the fer
menting poison. For the first give night and
morning to a calf one-third of an ounce of car
Donate of ammonia, one drachm of copperas,
powdered gentian one drachm, and powdered
ginger one drachm. Mix and give in bran or
meal, If the animal will eat if not, as a
drench. Give also in the middle of the day
two drachms of sulphite of soda. The sooner
treatment begins after the disease appears the
greater the probability of recovery.
H. c.: enclose specimen of grass which desire
you to tell me the name of. 1t is running grass,
as you will see with joints from one half to one
inch apart and takes root at each joint The piece
from which specimen was cut was about two feet
long; It is invaluable as pasture grass 1t has
always been known here as wiregrass, but from
what can CLEAN from your valuable paper it is
probably bermuda, In order to get permanent
pasture set with it, would you cut up this runner in
machine and broadcast and plow in? How would
1t do sown with rye and grass seed? What is the
best time to sow it? What kind OF seed would you
SOW with it OH q high hill?
Grass sent is genuine bermuda. In doubtful
cases this grass may be recognized by the fact
that two or three leaves come out at the joints
of the stem. In other grasses one leaf only
comes out joint. The plan you suggest, of
cutting up these runners" also the under
ground stems, (Which are the same, except
that they develop under instead of above
ground) is quite often practiced, and with sue
cess. The pieces may be plowed In at any
season when the soil is thoroughly wet, AS
this is more apt to be the case in early spring
than at any other season, that is the best time
to do it, 1t is not well to associate it with any
other grass, but it may be sown with spring
grain, and after the grain is harvested the ber-
muda can take full possession of the land 1t
will grow after any kind of grain, if the latter
is not SO thick as to smother it at first. But as
this necessitates sowing grain thinner than is
desirable, it is better TO SOW the bermuda by
itself,