The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-04-23

for six or eight hours and then dry the leg
with a wooden cloth and bath 1T with cam
phorated soap linment. Give internally halt
once doses of saltpeter in the drinking
water every six hours, bran mashes ana
complete rest.
X Y. H., Blackvile, Ga.-Your neigh
boris horse evidently is troubled with
worms. Give one dose, repeating 1t
morning and night for one week, the roi-
lowing: One drachm copperas. l drachm
OF tartar emetic drachmS linSeed meal.
After giving two doses day Tor one
week, then give the following purge as one
dose: One ounce spirits of turpentlne, L
pint of raw Iinseed oil. After three weeks,
repeat the entire treatment, to catch the
young worms Matched from nits. or eggs,
left in the bowels.
c. NJ. H., Berry, Ala wishes treatment
for sweeny.
First be certain that it is a case of
sweeny and not what is called shoulder
lamenesS. The latter is located at the
point of the shoulder or joint and is ac-
companied with soreness. The best treat
ment for sweeny is to blister with tleS-one-
half ounce powdered cantharides and two
ounces of lard. Mix and rub i'll well over
the shrunlhen muscles. Repeat the blister
ing every two weeks for two or three
months. Let the animal run in pasture,
moderate exercise is better than absolute
rest. There is no quick cure for sweeny;
time and rest from work being essential.
A. w. V, Masheine. Tex, has a COW
that "stumpsucks like a horse" and wants
to know the cause and a remedy. Eats
hearty of cotton seed and cat straw. We
never heard OF a case of cribbing, or
stumpSucl<ing, in a COW. 1t is probably
due to some form of Indigestion. Change
her food entirely, feeding on bran, scalded
oats. green food, corn meal Leave Oft the
cotton seed entirely. Give the following as
one dose morning and night: Three drachms
cooking soda, drachms gentian, drachms
OF ginger. Con1iue her IN a roomy stall,
so that she cannot reach the manger or
any other object, and feed her on the
floor.
Subscriber, Fearterville, S. C.-Wm equal
parts of kainit acid and cotton seed meal
at the rate of rs or POO pounds to the acre,
put in with the cotton seed, injure stand
OF cotton. If so, how should | apply the
fertilizer to secure stand; land sandy.
We advise you not to put cotton seed
meal in the furrow with the planting seed,
and would not like to risk kainit in the
same way. Suppose you open furro&
along the bed little TO one side of the
middle line in which YOU may distribute
the fertilizer Then open the planting fur
rev at the same time covering the fertillZ-
er. We will add that one-third KANT 10
too much. One-SiXth would be plenty. one
third kainit would give more potash than
there would be nitrogen in the cotton meal.
C. G. T, Cabool Mol. Please inform
me some good way to raise sweet potatoes.
> How would be the best way to keep them
through the winter season .. We nave
oats sowed which had come up just before
part of Missouri They We're frozen to the
ground and look bad, will they come out
again? Please answer as soon as you can
and oblige.
/. Sweet potatoes are very easy to raise.
The seed Should be bedded in the usual way
about complaining time. Prepare the land
"a sandy loan is best-by thorough piow-
ing. Throw up fiat beds four feet apart.
Plant slip every one and a half to two
feet. Cultivate clean and leave the beds
rather fiat than otherwise. ,. We will dis
cuss the keeping later. 3. Why ask such
question, when you will know from per
sonal observation long before this answer
Will reach YOU. Besides, the recovery of
the oats Will depend on how badly they
were frozen, and this we do not know
T. f. S, Pelican. lawn you answer
through The Constitution what will kill lice
on hogs or pigs without injurimg the ami
NAL? Some say coal oil viii Kill the lice,
but have tried it and failed. / have never
noticed any remedy given III. your ar
We have found crude petroleum a good
remedy when properly used Wash each
hog with soft soap and water and when
dry sponge all over with crude petroleum
and give daily for some days one drachm OF
copperas in the food. II any lice remain,
apply an ointment OF Scotch snuff and lard
to the bistered parts Burn all old bedding
and change their quarters.
F. C. w, Cleveland, Miss.-My neigh
boris are LOSING their boss bnt ~, we
seem to suffer something like a horse WITH
distemper, or some lung attectolh tney
hoy skin mdIaON, as they
break out all over, and seem 10 ne SUN al
the time: viii eat a little; are dr0"SE'
We would say that the hogs have Il FORM
of cholera called " pneumon-enteritis' "
puppies" This form Is not very conta-
ciouS Vet it is always best to separate the
we'll from the sick and use disinfectants-
Give to the sick ones at once each two
ounces of castor oil, and when II operates
give the following TWO or three tiIeS a gay
TO each: Twenty grains nitrate Of soda, ~
grains of saltpetre, mixed in a little Cruel
II the bowels are swollen and tender give
to each % drops of turpentine in a little
cruel az may be needed, and let them have
powdered charcoal in the drinking water.
Another good remedy is the following, to be
given three times It day, emitting the caio-
mel after the third dose grains OF Gallo
mel, ! drachm saltpeter, 10 grains powdered
camphor. For The hogs not yet affected
give the following. 1t win be sufficient for
100 hogs the dose being one pint TO each
grown hog: pounds each of -four of
sulphur. copperas and madden, T. pound
black anthony Il pound Of saltpeter and
two ounces OF arsenic. Mix the whole in
Il gallons of Cruel for 100 swine and give
one pint doses 10 each.
\. \. e.. Demopolis, Ala.-R Referring TO
your answer to }. Il. L., SenOia, Ga, in
Your issue of March 27th, 1 have a horse
which / think has "elephant leg he is
good horse and in good condition; has good
appetite: sheth does not swell: the leg only
eWells from the hip down; the leg does not
swell much when he is at work; sWellS very
much more when not at work he is about
eight wears old. Please give ma the proper
treatment for him.
You do not state whether the horse SUIT
fers any pain. ElephantiariS or elephant
leg" is quite pdpinfuI. There is another
similar alment On appearance called
stocking" in which there is no other symp-
tom bat swelling of the legs. usually con-
lined 30 the parts below the knees and
hooks. but in bad cases extending above.
Stocking is due to weakness and impoV-
erished condition of the blood, and is in
duced by standing still. The swelling sub
sides when the animal is put to work. and
returns after standing some time in the
stable. Give the following tonic one powder
night and morning in his feed: One ana
one-haf ounces pure copperas, two ounces
of pure saltpeter. Powder and mix and