The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-09-12

same as rust in wheat and oats, and is due to a
vegetable parasite which develops most rapidly IN
warm, damp weather. There is no remedy yet DIS
covered. Late corn, such as a crop that follows
wheat or oats, is most likely to be affected with
rust.
5. Brown Leghorns are considered to be the best
layers. We do not know, but most OF the breeders
have them for sale. Try Burr Brown, Bo!lngproke'
Ga.
Subscriber, Oakland Fla.-I have horse tnaG
eats hearty corn and anything but stays poor ~
the time, especially on corn. He don't seem SIoA,
tmes IN nid ,o th;n the trouble u.s.
and give remedy.
Your horse very probably has dyspepsia, but your
description is not full enough to say just "hat
form of this ailment is present. Ii ms URINE 10
very yellow and peculiarly offensive TO inc snoii'
you may be sure it is dyspepsia. If posslple turh
him grass the remainder of the fall See II there
is any defect in his teeth. Give apples, or turnlps'
or sweet potatoes, scaded oats and bran mashes'
and cut off the corn ration entirely. Give pur-
gatlve of drains of aloes, dram of ginger and
/ dram of gentian root. After purging is over
give good tonic say tablespoonful, night and
morning, OF the following Copperas, IA ounces;
saltpetre, ounce; femigreek seed, drams
l. C. H. B., Volente, Texas.-I have horse that
had distemper last winter for ten or fifteen DAYS.
cough; he breathes hard seems to get breath
easy enough but can't cNpel it. After drinking
water he is worse than when gaunt. The cough IS
more of groan or grunt; makes Wheezlng noise is
after drinking. Will you kindly tell me the dis
ease and remedy?
The trouble is a chronic cough, resulting from
some undue exposure while convaesclng from the
distemper. Take: Liquor ammonia, ounces;
spirits turpentine, ounces; linseed oil, ounces
Mix and rub we'll in day along the throat
and well up toward the ears.
Give internally: y ounces gum campbor; l
ounce digitalis; ounces linseed meal. Powder
and mix and divide into IL powders and give one
night and morning i'll soft food. Ii one course
does not cure repeat. If still not cured apply as
a blister, powdered canthardes Il ounce, lard
ounces Rub well in as before. Give as one dose
internally; dram camphor; ! dram digltalls;
dram caomel; dram opium, mixed with syrup
in ball. Give it as one dose, once day for
week, then omit week, and then repeat another
week.
j. r. g., Americus Ga.-Will you please tell me
what you know in regard to spraying fruit trees:
if it prove preventative to blight on pear trees,
and the curculio on plum and peach trees? You
know it is success to prevent insects on the
orange trees. What is good wash Tor the bodies
of all fruit trees? An early answer will oblige.
Spraying fruit trees and vines has been very ef
fective in preventing the attacks OF several dis
and insect enemies, but it is not yet certain
Certainly it cannot be cured by any means yet dis
covered, except by cutting away the blghted
limbs foot more below the lowest point in
fected. The plum curcuio can be effectively con-
troled by spraying three or four times during the
season with Paris green and Bordeaux mixture
The following is known as the "Diute bordeaux
MIXTURE: Bluestone, pounds; quick lime,
pounds; water so gallons. Dissolve the bluestone
n gallons of hot water; then Stake the lime in
another vessel and pour into the bluestone solu-
ton through fine strainer; add water to make,
in all, 40 30 gallons and about ounces of Paris
green. Apply with force pump as soon as the
blossoms have fallen, and repeat three or four
times at intervals of one week.
Apples should be sprayed with the dilute Bor-
deaux mixture without the Paris green, twice be-
fore blooming, the second time just before the
blossoms open. The third application should be
made after the blossoms have fallen, using the di
lutte solution and ounces of Paris green, and
further application in about ten days, using the
same as in the third.
Write to Director Experiment Station Wooster,
Ohio for copy of Bulletin No. 4S, February, 1898.
Wash your trees with lime and soapsuds wash.
NJ s. W. Edgefeld Courthouse, S. C.-Please
give symptoms and remedy for murrain in cattle
doth bloody and dry, through The Constitution,
and obl1ge.
The symptoms OF dry murran: Diminished APP
petite, Illumination irregular, tongue coated mouth
Shiny, dung apparently not well digested and bad
smelling, dullness, and fullness of the Hanks.
Give aromatic and demulsent drinks such as flax
seed tea and ginger tea. Boil ounces of chamo-
mile flowers for twenty minutes in quart of wa
ter and give when cool repeat this about three
times day. If constipated give: EPSON salts,
pound; aloes, u ounce; powdered ginger, ounce;
powdered nuX vomica dram; fluid extract bella
donna, "a ounce. The diet should be laxative and
easily dlgestible and given moderately.
Pod m characterized AS
lows: The animal eats slowly, ruminates less fire.
ouently than when in health, and walks slowly.
Sometimes colicky pains. AS the disease advances
the animal ceases to eat and rumlnate, the muzze
is dry the eyes sunken, the coat rough, the skin
dry and hdebound, the bowels act irregularly, and
the messages are thin, black colored grayish;
then they become moro frequent, fetid and streak
ed with blood. Treatment When symptoms are
first discovered mix pound sulphate of magne-
STA with quarts of tepld water and then add grad
uallv drains of sulphuric acid; give at one dose.
1t is important that the above should be given at
early stage
The food should be soft and digestible say grass,
boiled roots, linseed tea, hay tea When the purge
has acted two or three times give the following:
Powdered ipicacuana, l "a ounces; powdered OPT
nm 10 ounce. Mix and divide into II powders and
give one three times day.
If the foregoing is not eflectual spirits of tar
pentine may be gwen in half ounce doses three
times a day in quart OF warm new milk.
Among other remedies are blue stone in dram
doses combined with 20 grains Of opium and
mixed with at least quart of linseed tea. Keep
the patient warm and comfortable in every
respect.
G. T.. c., Umatila Fla.-In April, last,
through your kindness, ! furnished with
the name of a scotsman in Atlanta from whom
| bought a small quantity of lintlesS cotton
seed | made this pu rchase on the strength
of some articles written on the subject which
appeared in the newspapers, stating that the
Weld per acre would be 500 bushels 1t oc
Cured to we that if this yield was correct
and that really it was lintess that it
was just what we wanted down here to plant
for fertiliZing purposes. My cotton is now
opening and it proved otbe lintess or very
nearly so, and is very prolific. But the ques-
ton in my mind at this stage of the game is,
how to gather it. The pods open and the seed
drop out on the slightest Drovocaton. AS to
the yield this matter is still a question i'll nay
mind. There seem to be a few more seed in
a pod of the lintless than that with lint for
/ have both growing tOgether) and from the
seed sold me as lintless. But it does not seem
to me that the difference is great enough i'll
favor of the lintless to make the difference
claimed. But ] have only begun the pick
ing process [ am not yet in a position TO make
q statement.
But what I am particularly anxious to
know Is just how to gather the seed. Surely
the parties who have been experimenting will
kindly give ME the information. 1t will be
appreciated.
In reDly TO tho above we will saw that Vro