The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-08-22

bag is good filled with sand over the bung hole.
In two or three weeks the froth will cease to
| over and the bung may be put In loosely. After
few days it may be driven i'll tight. In few days
| the cider should be drawn of carefully, using a
| sphon, and put into a clean cask, which has first
| been washed out with little cider, and strips OF
sulphured cloth burned in IL. To prepare these
melt little sulphur and dip strips of cloth in 1t
and remove them. Set fire to one end OF strip
eight or ten inches long, suspend 1t the barrel ana
drive in the bung loosely. After an hour or two
the barrel or cask is ready for the cider. Bottle
about March list, using strong bottles and good
corks. Fill the bottles half way up the neck, drop
in raisin or two, and drive in the CORK and fas
ten it securely and SET tho bottles in cool place
with the necks downward.
JC.J., Lake Ogden, Fla. Enclosed please find
two beans. Please tell me if they are the castor
bean. They are known here as palma christi bean,
and are they worth anything?
e What is the best feed for colt after he Is ten
months old. have one from very good stock and
want to make u fine horse of him; have been feed
ing 1T on wheat bran and oats since weaving.
fleasc tell me now to raise my colt.
1. The beans are castor beans or palma christi.
(ricinus community of which the common castor
Oil is made. The beans worth from ST to IS
per bushe in market.
9. Oats is the best feed for a colt, and bran is
also excellent if not fed too freely. The older the
better, if perfectly sound We would not give corn,
-
they must have good allowance of sweet hay, or
well cured corn fodder. Give pasture as much as
possible. Handle the colt daily and accustom 1t
to to the batter to leading, the bride, then light
saddle but not suffer him ridden (uness by mere
chld) or put to any work, until two years old. 1t
should then be able to do about half work, OF
light character colt should be thoroughly broke
to saddle and harness long before he is put to real
work After he has been taught to submit to the
bride and saddle, then teach him to stand hitched
to post by the hour, gradually increasing the
time. Let him be led around with harness on, ETC.
Be kind and gentle. Reward obedience by cares
SEES or choice bit of food. Accustom him to
drink before eating, instead OF after. Teach him
to come to you in the lot or pasture. Fully one
| half the value of good horse is due to early
| handling and training.
w. X. j., Cerlastae, Columbia ccounty, Gal
To follow oats with oats how will it be best to pre-
| pare the land where there is heavy stubble and
| thick coat of grass and weeds?
2. Is it injurious to land to turn under green
| matter?
| 3. Suggest best plan to SOW oats after corn on
| good land, with much peavines, stubble ana large
cornstaks, and twenty bushels OF cotton seed per
acre. Would it be best to turn cotton seed, or
other manure under, or harrow III after breaking?
| i. Is guano good for oats as cotton seed?
3. Is euanO that was lett over from iaSt spring
| as good now then?
! 6. 10 sow oats in cotton land before finishing
picking, would a cultyator he best, putting one
round to the middle. Would this covor the cotton
! seed sufficiently?
/. Turn over with two-horse turnplow, with
| weedhook chain attached to hold down the
weeds, III % September, and sow oats and ferili-
and harrow i'll with a GETAWAY, or other SINH
! lar harrow.
2. Yes temporarily; i. e., it is not good for a
crop that is to follow Immediately.
3. Cut off the top stalks (all above the ear at
| fodder pulling time and house them. Cut the
butts into three four pieces as they stand, using
a common sickle kept sharp. Save the grass Tor
hay as much possible. Then turn under with
two horse pow. The twenty bushels Of cotton seed
should have about 200 pounds of acid phosphate
with them.
I. Very good, if highly ammoniated.
5. Yes, if it has been kept dry.
g. Hardly. why use cotton seed? You cannot
afford it, if you sell them at anything like the
prices that prevailed last winter. Exchange cot
ton seed for meal, which is better.
W C. b.. Citra FLA. l have COW with second
calf about twenty days old she is good mixer
but the milk is tinged with blood. About yesr
ago turned her out for the same cause, thlnk1i
size would be all right when she had her secoY..
calf but there is Improvement What is
cause, and can you tell me what to do to II
D. had fine rooster whose legs DO
less whom ne was apparently in
otherwise. HIS appe
not walk, and he n~sered" Tor sucut
and died. What was the cause, and is I'll
remedy.
8 Can YOU give a sure cure for chicken cholera :,
Pleas answer in next weeks Constitution and
obige, yours truly.
1. Bloody milk may be due to various causes.
Sometimes it is the result of blows on the udder
sometimes by sudden increase i'll the circulation
duc to richer and moro abundant food, or when the
| COW is under the excitement of heat. In milk
which becomes red after it is drawn it may be
due 10 the presence i'll it of nucrococcuS prodigio-
sus, which sometimes grows on bread. The treat
ment is various according to cause. II congested
glands, give one pound of EPSON salts and daily
thereafter u ounce of saltpetre and drachm of
chorate of potash battle the bag with hot or cold
water, and rub with camphorated lard Reduce
the food If from eating acrd plants (another
cause) change the pasture or remove the plants.
Induration of the udder may be met by rubbing
with a combination of iodine ointment part. soft
SOAP parts; or mercurial ointment and soap may
be used Careful milking is important.
2. Leg weakness is probably the complaint. 1t
affects chiefly young roosters, and the large Aslat
ic fowls are more subject to it. The remedy Is
Don't feed them meal, but give them
cracked wheat, oats, and give TO grains citrate
OF iron daily. Or, it may be paralysis for which
nothing can be done in the way of cure. Plenty
of exercise, a mixed diet and well ventilated dry
quarters, are prevvntiveS.
g. We know no sure cure for cholera. See arti-
clio in issue iof August s page 4, 81 and 18th col
umns.
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