The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-18

| Then mix equal parts of common BAKING
soda, powdered ginger and powdered gen
| tian, and give one heaplng tapleSpooiiiu VI
twice a day before feeding. 1t IS pest
| given by dissolvinS the spoonful IN a tulh-
| bier of water. as breach.
To c.. L. c., Temple, Miss.-The plant is,
| as we suspected, trifolium ret1eXum, or
| Buffalo clover. Many years ago we FOUND
| it growing on our farm in southwest Geor-
gia and made some effort to propagate IT,
| but without satisfactory success. we nave
never seen it except in scattered creeping
| punches. The potash in cotton SEED nuns
| is fully allowed for in the estimate. HUNS
| contain but little more than per cent
1OS-of potash, or 20.60 pounds in one ton
| of hulls The rest of hulls is very rlch III
potash but one ton of hulls yields only
| fifty-two pounds of ash. NO allowance was
made for humus, as 1t mas no coliiilercldi
| value.
J. G. S., Waterville, Gal Does wheat
. Viii whippooreill bunch peas and sor-
| ghum sown together make good hay? If
SO, about what proportion OF peas tno aGe9
| I No: cheat or chess, is just as distinct
| from wheat oats as corn is from sor-
| ghum.
2 Yes. Sow one bushel of peas and one
| quart of sorghum per acre. The main use
| of the sorghum is to hold up the pea vines,
| b11t it is generally sown with some running
| sariety of peas. Sow the early amber sor-
| ghum
G. D., Lanton, MOI traded for horse
| five years old that has got a white spot in
the left eye. Some time | think it is get
! ting a little smaller, but L am not quite
sure. He cannot see at all. DO you think
there is any remedy to get this eye all
right, if so, what is it and oblige?
Your description is by no means clear
enough to enable a diagnosis. DO you
hot Of +I,a i-,
so the horse is probably already blind and
will remain So You do not say whether
he has sore eyes occasionally. If not and
he cannot see with that eye he never will.
T. A. F., Craven, N. C.-My horse has
worms, has been SO about six months.
Used medicine, but find on relief; also have
two hogs, fine stock, same way. Please
give remedy in Farm and Farmers col
umn.
a vermifuge that is usually effective in
the case of a horse is the following: One
drachm of copperas, one drachn of tartar
emetic, two drachms of linseed meal. Mix
and give one dose, repeating it night
and morning for a week. Then give
purgative of one ounce spirits of turpen-
tine, one pint raw linseed Oil-as one dose.
After three weeks repeat the entire treat
ment to catch any nits that may have
Matched in the meantime. Give about one
third much to a grown hog, administer
L. A. c., Rutledge, Gal write for infor-
nation for a remedy for q disease among
my hogs. They We're lame first in their
fore feet and then in week they became
lame in their hind ieet with their hind
feet drawn up about the center of the body;
and then it extended all over the body, and
now they are dScharging from the nostrilS
like a horse with the distemper with good
appetite all the time Please answer soon,
1t is probably what is called malignant
catarrh. First separate the well from the
sick. The latter may as well be killed if
the disease has taken full possession. Give
to each the following emetic: 10 to 20 grains
of white hellebone, y pint of milk. If Il
will not drink give it through a horn. Al
ter vomiting give 2 or grains of calomel
in the half Of u roasted potato.
w. ]. D., Jr, Montgomery, Tex. Is
frequent blowing an invariable rule and un-
der all circumstances? | ploWed corn two
weeks ago, since which time there has been
but one light shower, the soil stu being
loose. However, on the advice of Rapid
Cultivation | plowed again two weeks later
Was it an advantage or not?
2. Should new ground be ploWed fire.
3. How is sugar cane best cultivated?
i. Al. what stage should corn and cotton
1. We say no. When the ground is clean,
loose and mellow and no rain has fallen
since last blowing would not pillow it
| until after a rainfall.
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possible. AS a rule the soil Of q new ground
after being plowed once or twice is too
open and porous.
T. No definite rule can be given by which
to determine when cultivation Cf corn and
cotton should cease. In corn we like to
give the last plOWing when it Is in the
bunch for tassel. In cotton we would Sive
one broad sweep o" cultivation furrow IN
each middle about the time the links COM
mence to meet across.
w. H. H. NJ. D.. Kramer, AIa.-Notcing your
| answer to j. F., of LanevIlle, Tex, | de
| sire to describe the condition of a valuable
mare: More than year ago she received
| Il punctured wound between the fore legs
which caused a large abcesS. The puS puI-
roWed around the breast bone and up
among the muscles behind the CHOW 9er-
eral large openings were made by a Vetef-
| mary surgeon and the puS let out. In
| ste ad of healing, however, there remains a
| tistulous tract. leading from point central
over the sternum to q point behind the left
! elbow. There was some CORES of the Ster-
| mum but | scraped that and used hydrochlo-
rio acid locally, and think the bone is Well.
! Now what ! wish to know is, can this tatu-
| lous tract be deStroyed-slouShed out by
| medicines? If what is the best mode OF
| using, etc? Some author has said thar a
| sternum fistula, on account of the porosity
| of the bone, cannot be cured. What say
| you?
We have had no experience in such a case,
| and have no authority which makes any cX-
| ceptions as to reasonable certainty of cure
| with proper treatment on account OF pOrOSl-
! ty Of the bone. We know of no way Of curing
q fistula that does not involve its free open
! Ulg, 50 that the discharge may come freely
away. 1t is very important to use daily an
| anticeptic lotion.
| J. NJ w, Near Leary, Gal. Which is
| the best fertilizer for sweet potatoes Ell
! wan dissolved bone or a high grade ammoni-
ated guano?
=. What do you think of turning brood
sOws in rye after the rye has fully rip
ened?
J. DO you think it good idea to keep soWs
| on ground or field peas?
/. The sweet potato requires what Is
| called a complete fertilizer in order to yield
| the best results, i. e. a fertilizer that con-
| tains phOsphoric acid, potash and nitrogen.
| On fresh soil or pretty good Old land q
| small dose of acid phosphate would have
| a good effect, but if you wish to make a
| liberal application-say 800 to 800 pounds per
! acre-we would prefer the ammoniated pot
| ash phosphate, to which class the Etiwan
high grade belongs.
2. We would not turn soWs in pig, on rye
| after it leaves the ground. The smut OF
| rye Will cause abortion.
! ). We see no objection to the practice, but
would take care to give corn regularly
every day.
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