The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-17

If SO, how old must it be and what guam
tity should be fed? Please give me all the
information you can through the columns
of The Constitution and it will be thank
fully received.
Rape is sown as soiling grazing crop
for cattle, sheep and hogs. 1t does not an
swer so well for milk cows, as it imparts
an Objectionable flavor to the milk and but
ter. 1t should be cut just as 1t commences
to flower.
good condition, eats heartily; l use her
for buggy driving only; she has plenty of
good PASTURE: | never drive her fast; she
is ten twelve years old; has spells of
collie or bellyache occasionally, and will
drop in the shafts. What is the matter?
The spells do not last long. 1 feed on
sheled corn and oats occasionally. Please
say what you think is the cause and give
remedy.
1t is hard to tell just what is the mat
ter with your mare from your very meager
description, but we suspect it is spasmodic
collie. When she has an attack give mild,
difIusible stimuant, such az two ounces of
whisky, one ounce extract Of ginger, half
pint of water. Also give warm water
injections with just little soap in it. Re-
peat the dose, if necessary, every half
hour, until relieved. BE careful in feeding
and watering. always watering before feed
ing. Perhaps it would be well not to give
corn at all.
]. NJ. S., Charleston, Cal have a few
make four hundred pounds. l wish to
know how to manage it for the best re-
suits. Please answer the following:
/. Should it be thoroughly ripe?
2. Should it be cured in the shade?
3. Which is best, a dark place or light?
4. Is it essential to hang it high up from
the ground?
s. Does a few worm holes in 1t injure its
commercial value?
In other words, how must | manage 1t to
get the best grade of bright or light coll
ored tobacco?
/. Yes; it should be thoroughly ripe, which
may be known by its change of color to
notified yellow, the appearance of small
spots on the leaves, and the fact that when
any part of a leaf is bent pinched be-
tween the finger and thumb it will break
short, being thick and brittle.
. 1t must be cured in the shade.
g. 1t does not matter. The best place is
an airy clubhouse with good roof, such as
a well covered log building.
4 Hang il from within three or four feet
| of the floor to as high as you can.
3. Every hole in a leaf detracts somewhat
from the value of the same. We would
suggest that you strip the leaves from the
stalks as they ripen, string them on short
wires inserted in sticks three feet long,
each end of each wire projecting about
eight inches. String the leaves about one
inch apart, putting about six to each wire
point. When the stick is full-about sew
enty-tWo leaves-hang on poles placed
across the room very much as you would
hang meat TO smoke, and as many tiers
your room will hold. Keep the doors
and windows open during the day and close
them at night. On very damp days little
charcoal fire should be kept burning on the
floor to prevent molding. When the stems
are thoroughly dry the tobacco is cured.
ON a damp day take the leaves from the
sticks and pack down in snug heap on
clean floor, cover with some old sacks and
apDlV a little weight. 1t will then
through a sweating process after (which
II must be assorted, or graded, leaf by lear,
into four to six grades and tied up in small
hands and packed closely in boxes.
IT. d. J., Wadley, Ga.-Your short talks
with all Of us ! hope are appreciated. Can
you tell me where | can get $4 per rn ton for
peayine hay? / find 1t rather difficult 10
sell, however nice and good have bought
hay which cost me $50 per ton that was not
worth half so much as the hay composed CT
peaVines. crowfOot and crabSrass, which
] annually save. Is not this state of af-
are discriminating against us?
We are not posted in regard to the mar
kets for hay. As rule consumers IN cifIss
lrrrcr 20 BUY haIeu may, which Is chiefly
western, partly because 1t is in more con-
venert form and partly because they are
in the hartt of buying it. Consumers, as
Yet, do not properly appreciate peavne hay.
| When cut at the right time and nicely
cured pe0Nfne hay is worth twice as much
for feeding purposes the average So
called mo. l timothy" hay brought from
the west. 1t is both ''corn and fodder TO a
horse or COW. But most people consider
hay OF any kind as so much ''rpughness,"
required to "nll up" AS a general principle
we would not advise the selling of hay, but
rather that il be fed to mich cows and
other cattle, and sell the products in the
form of butter, milk and beef.
TO w. T. n, Felix, Aia.-We do not know
which is the 'best model for portable hay
rack for feeding cattle in an open yard
We do not feed hay in the open yard as a
rule, ard when we do it Is simply thrown on
the hard, clean yard.
NJ w c., Hale's Mil, Val have a flly
two years old that has a growth in the in
side corners OF The eye that farmers here
call hooks" She is in good condition and
her eyes look well except for the growth.
Please tell me what the trouble is and the
remedy.
We advise that you do not "cut the hooks
OUT unless you are certain that there is
cancerous liberation of the cartilage, which
may be known by a white line that appears
in the midst of the red and swollen haw.
In al probability the projection of the haw
is caused by some Inflammation in the
ball of the eye, or possibly by some foreign
substance lodged in the eye. The practice
OF cutting out the haw (or hooks simply
because the latter is more prominent than
usual is cruel and unnecessary.
is. s, Chelsea. /. TT have a mare that
has distemper; has had il all summer.
Nothing seems TO do any good for her. AT
one time she appeared almost well, quit
breathing hard and quit running at the
nose. But of late she has been almost
chozed hard to breathe and runs slightly
at the nose. IL you can tell me through
The Constitution what TO do, Will receive
it with gratitude.
1t is doubtful if you shall receive this re-
ply i'm time to do any good. Your horse has
probably been exposed to a draught after
coming in from heating exercise, and has
contracted cold-which amounts to a re-
lapse of distemper. If she has high fever
give handful of glauber salts three times
a day as a laxative, and bicarbonate of soda
or saltpeter in drachm doses every few
hours Steam the head with vapor Of warm
water poured over bucket of bran and
hay in which balladonna leaves or tar have
been placed. This viii allay the infamma-
ton of the mucous membranes and greatly
relieve the cough and breathing. If the
lungs appear to be affected apply mustard
to the belly and sides of the chest.
CaIving Time.
AT calving while we keep an anxious over
sight of the COW at this time, we believe
that il is wrong to separate her from the
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