The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-07
THE FARM QUERY BOX.
Conducted by DIR. w T.. Jones, Formerly of
the Southern CultiYator.

Conducted by DIR. w, T.. Jones, Formerly of
the Southern Cultivator.
B. G. S. Winchester Tenn: My sa Idle stallion
fourteen years old is affected thus; Hide close,
coat stands off and has dandruff; breethes little
loud and thumps some when riding. Appetite usu-
ally good but comes ana goes of late. Fundament
rusty rubbing his tail at times. He looks tolerably
we'll, his action is fair, eye clear and wide awake.
Passages fairly good but atstimes his kidneys may
be somewhat troubled Cannot fatten him on green
corn bran and.oatsaud clover hay. Do you think it
possible to reclaim him. l suspect q severe case of
surfeit resulting from bad ami injudicious feeding,
and riding after night. He was horse of great
durance and is one OF the best in the state
The chances are against your horse at his,
age You might try the following line of
treatment; First regulate his bowels by
giving half pint of linseed Gil and a table
spoonful of turpentine three times week, and
continue from time to time to keep bowels in
soluble condition. If teeth are defective feed
Oh ground oats. Oats should constitute his
chief diet Mix with them a quart of linseed
meal once day. Give night and morning two
hrachms each of copperas and powdered
gentian; also one grain of strychnine once
day FOR q week or two.
Subscriber, Memphis, Alabama: Is there any
.r;th III cows losing their cud?
A COW stops chewing the cud when her
stomach gets out of order The cud she chews
one day is not the same she chews the next.
1t is part of the food she brings up, chews
thoroughly, swallows again, then brings up
another quid and chews that, and so on.
When the COW is sick she may lose control
over the muscles concerned in bringing up the
cud, and that is losing the cud.''
subscrler, Villa City Fla. One week ago today
drove MY horse twelve miles in a walk; had
three hun lred pounds in my carriage; at night put
him in the stable, and he appeared all right. Next
morning turned him out and he was stiff in one
hind legl by noon he could scarcely walk by night
leg swollen and everish and has been SO ever since
don't think he hurt himself There must be
something wrong with the blood or muscles.
Please say what was the cause of trouble, and how
to tleat it.
The trouble is probably rheumatic, caused
by draught ofIcold afro cooling off too quickly
after the drive. See treatment of rheuma-
tsm in answer to another inquiry about
"hooks."
j. 6. G., Lexingt III, Miss: | have good saddle
horse affected with what some horse doctors tenn
shocks" Have treated him for that, but he has
not improved in the least Is in good condition eats
hearty but is perfectly stiff can't step over stable
door, When he throws up his head white forma-
lion, or skin, covers the entire eyebali. Can you
tell me what to do for him?
Clocks" isssln Inflammation and swelling
of a membrane in the inner corner of the
horses eye, which corresponds to one in the
birds eye that can be drawn at will entirely
over the eye. When "hooks'' are present it
indicates some inflammation Of the eye, but
does not affect the general health of an animal
to any extent. The stiffness has no connec-
ton with the trouble in the eye, except that
both are probably due to rheumatism. Put
a rowel below the eye and battle it with
weak solution of bluestone. Give twenty
drops of tincture of aconitc once a dav for
three days, then q drachm of powdered colchi-
cum seed twice day. Give also twice week
sixty drops of oil OF vitriol in bucket of water
A. A. T., Nevada, Texas ] have young horse
that has heaves; could you giveme remedy? Also
what is the cause of heayes?
Heaves is often caused by dstension of the
the stomach from bulky food and consequent
crowding OF the lungs. 1t is sometimes pro-
duced by disordered condition of the nerve
centers that control the lungs Permanent
cure is rare. Much can be done to alleviate
the trouble by feeding on grain with little
bulky food, and wetting everything eaten by
the horse with lime water. The animal should
never be ridden or driven hard for an honr
after eating and should not be allowed TO fill
the stomach with too much water at one time
j.. W., speer, Texas: What is the best prevent.
i've for chicken cholera?
Feed as little corn as possible. keep green
food always within reach; sprinkle house and
yard with weak oil Of vitriol-an ounce to ten
gallons of water; burn or bury beyond resur-
rection every dead chicken, and kill and bury
every sick one. Make solution of one Mound
of copperas and one ounce of oil of vitriol in a
gallon of hot water in y hours add another
gallon of water TO it, and keep in Jug Add at
rate Of tablespoonful TO the quart of drinking
water every day.
D. j., Jefferson. Ca: ] have large lot Of stable
manure (horse and about tho same amount Of cow
have kept the stables Of COWS and horses wei 1T
tered with leaves and pine straw and have a GUAM
tiiy Of lot manure made from keeping the lot COW.
cred with leaves ana all o large lot of chips from
woodpile and s'rlpiugs from yard and henhouse
all Of which wish to compost together. VIII you
please give me The proportions IN ThichHoinlx them
for cotton and corn WIN Pay 10 uee acid phos.
phate in my compost If 80. in what rroportion9 Ng
cotton land old upland M o ton last year it viii
make five or SIX hundred ed cotton without any
manure, and the co-n land part Of which is good
bottoms and the balance mp land IN cotton last year
about the same as the above land. What amounts
would you sIegeft 70 be used per acre?
Nix all the various manures YOU have to-