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


! correspondent 2. A. W., Shorters Depot Ala. as
would like to get seed of this wild clover from
him. If it will, as he says, grow two feet high on
| poor land, without manure, and will grow good
| stand" then IT is what the south needs for we
ought 10 grow all mules horses, hogs and cattle,
and with such a forage plant we can do
Our correspondents letter has passed through
| the printers hands into the waste pile, and we
| do not recall his address. But we may add
that up to this time the Richardson's has not
| been grown to any extent except in Florida,
lower Georgia and along the gulf border of
| Alabama. 1t is not probably adapted to
regions farther north, nor to clay soil. We
cannot speak positively on this point. but all
we know points that way.
| &c. A.. Kings Mountain, " c.. want to know
| what feed is best to make COW give milk? have
| oats, peas, and bran; can have peas, oats
| and corn ground up together and make good iced?
Cannot tell you exactly the best combina-
ton of the materials named to produce greatest
| yield of milk. Some Of the substances have
been pretty fully tried in feeding tests others
have not. We know little OF the COW pea from
| such tests, but general experience in the south
| gives it very high rank as q milk-producing
| food. From general considerations, not as re-
| suit of experiment, would suggest that you
| grind together one part of peas, two of oats,
| and one of corn-by weight, not measure.
| For change occasionally, which is very desr-
| able, substitute bran in place Of peas, or in
| place Of oats. 1t is proposed to investigate
points like these at our experiment station
before very great while.
| Subscriber Crockett, Texas: /. Please inform me
| what causes the gummy exudations so common on
| peach trees Do you know of a remedy?
| q Ny peaches this year nearly all have brown
| spots, and nearly every peach has worm at the
| seed. Can yon suggest remedy?
The formation of gum in peaches, plums,
etc., is analogous to that Of oils like the tur-
| pentine of the pine. Some of the elaborated
| food instead of entering into the formation of
| tissues degenerates into these substances
| apparently of no use to the plant. They may
| subserve some good purpose, but it has not
| yet been discovered. When peach tree is
bruised, or there is partial splitting off of
limb, or the cracking of the bark by too rapid
growth, or the working in of borer, the gum
exudes. The mere exuding of the gum proba-
bly, does little or no harm but 1t Is the ign of
other injury. The gum which exudes near the
bottom Of the trunk is caused by the borer-a
little white worm with yellow head, which
bores through the bark, channels between
wood and bark feeding on the tender inner
bark, and often killing the tree by practically
grdling it. These worms come from eggs laid
by moth in the latter part of summer on the
soft bark near the surface of the ground.
After they get in they generally work down.
ward towards the roots. They are removed by
following their haunts and getting them out
with knife or wire, avoiding any more cut
ting of the bark than is necessary to reach
them. To circumvent them before they enter,
the earth is hiled up around the trees in early
summer so as to cover UP the soft bark The
moth will either not lay its egg on the hard
bark, or the worm cannot work its way through
it. Pulling the dirt away from around the
base of the trees in winter. tends to harden the
bark around the base of the stem. Piling ashes
and lime around the base of the trees is thought
also to keep out the worms.
g. No very effective remedy is known for the
worm that infests the fruit. 1t is thought by
some that, if there are plenty of chickasaw
| plums near by, the insect will deposit its egg
| in the plum in preference to the peach Some
thing may be done by having pigs and poultry
| in the orchard to eat the fallen fruit with
| enclosed worms, and thus keep down their
numbers When not thus destroyed they pass
into the ground and develop into perfect insects
to produce another brood the next year.
TF G., Tallassee, Ala: have colt three years
old whose eyes are affected; about every two months
they turn white and are badly infamed for five or
six days, and then they get all right again. He is
horse colt Do you think it would be good idea to
let him run in pasture while his eyes are soref
Please give remedy to cure him.
Your colt has constitutional tendency to
blindness, and in all probability will event
ually lose one or both eyes Sometimes it is
said that putting out one eye will save the
other. Feed as little grain as possible,
especially corn. Exposure to bright light and
holding his head down in grazing will not be
good for his infamed eyes. You might put
rowels Just below the eyes, and put a little
very weak solution of bluestone in them when
they are intiamed.
j. A. c., Americas, Ca: send you some grass
which would like to know the name of and II
there IS any way to get rid of it. There is lot in
this place where this grass has nearly killed out
thick bermuda sod. 1t is in my Texas blue grass,
| and In the summer, when the Texas blue grass Is
making only little growth, this grass nearly
| the ground. Stock will eat II when they get no
| other grass. 1t is called here woods grass
Plant sent is not tree grass, but belongs to
| what botanists call "sedge"-the same family
| to which the nut grass and chufa belong.
| Judging from the specimen sent, this one does
not produce underground tubers, and we see
|, no reason why it might not be killed by plow-
ing it up. You will notice that the stem is
not round, but triangular, which is mark of
the sedges. They constitute very large
family Of coarse, hardy plants.
+ X Nc. Double Sprihgs, Miss: Please give me
formula 10 prepare whitewash for fencing. etc.
Take half bushel of lime and pour on boil
ing water 20 cover 1t five inches deep. Stir it
constantly till slaked. Dissolve in water two
pounds Of white yitriol (sulphate OF znc) and
one pound Of salt, and add to the lime, stirring
/ them IN well.
/ W. II. NJ, MIL Ray. Ga; / have morse about
fourteen years old has always been well kept and
cared for, be ohews his corn well enough, but de-
posts al least half pint Of In the trough his
fodder OF hay he can't swallow-he chews 1t up and
sIl,s & out and he is sluggish and sti Please tell
me what is the cause and remedy fori
There may be something wrong about his
teeth, which interieres with chewing and irri-
tates the soft parts of the mouth. In old
horses the teeth grow to be very long, and their
ends strike the roof OF the mouth They can
be filed of when this is the case. Or there