The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-21

or bran rnashes green food, etc. Battle the
eye with hot water, an hour at a tlme' tnree
times a day. Apply the following eye wafer
to the eye, with camels hair brush Iour or
five times day: Two grains sulpf ate OF afro
pa and one ounce of water. Keep the dil-
NAL in a dark place with plenty or water
to drink When the active inflammation
has subsidized use the following eye water
twice day for week or 50: rive grains
nitrate of silver and one ounce OF water.
J. L. R., Bevilrs Store, Ala have
horse five years old with an enlargement
on the inside of the knee OF the rlgnt nl l
leg The place is soft. Please give remedy
It is a case of bog SPAWN. Battle 1t IN
either hot or cold water as continuously as
possible for twelve hours, then apply
boiled turnip poultice, hot and soft Con-
tinue the poultice several days, changing
it once day and bathing in hot water at
the time of changing. When the soreness
and lameness are gone apply the following
liniment twice day: Three ounces tincture
Of iodine and one ounce each OF aqua am
monia turpentine and glycerine. Rub it in
well with the hand until the skin is quite
sore; then grease it once day until healed;
then repeat the liniment. Continue this al
ternating treatment for few weeks, giving
complete rest. Then turn out to pasture a
long time.
IT y. H.. N.
YOU to suggest a remedy Tor meas on dogs:
[ wish to purchase pup OF some good
breed and would like for you or. some OF
the correspondents to give me the ADDRESS
of a few dealers and greatly obllSe
Dust Persian insect powder well INTO the
Iar Or take one ounce of oil of an1Se and
ten ounces of sweet oil. Mix and rub we'll
in. washing it off six hours Afterwards
Give fresh pine shaVings, or green walnut
leaves as a bed for the dog. b. Morrison,
Atlanta, Ga, and Loring Brown, Boiling
broke. Ga, are dog breeders.
7. w. r., Americas, Gal. What will
kill and prevent wiggletails in tub of
water hyacinths without injury to the
plant?
green Kill them, if so, how should it be
used?
1. A spoonful or two of any kind of thin
oil poured on the surface of the water will
suffocate the wiggetails. Kerosene oil is
very effective and the small quantity re-
CURED would probably do the plants no
serious injury. After the insects are dead
it would be well to skim off the OIL
2. Persian insect powder will kill flies
Close the room tight at night, puff the pow
der into the air and next morning sweep up
the flies and burn them. Another poison
Boil one-quarter ounce of small quassia
chips in one pint of water, add four ounces
of molasses or syrup. Another: Beat up
the yolk Of one egg with teaspoonful each
of molasses and finely ground Black pepper
One of the best is the '"Tanglefoot" fly
paper. We use it with success and satisfac-
ton.
j. S. Fl, Corsicana, Tex.--Wil you please
give me a remedy for destroying the large
red ant?
If you can find the nests pour kerosene
oil into them. Probably a still more effective
treatment would be to pour tablespoonful
two of carbon bisulphide into the holes
leading to the nests, and cover them with
a little earth. Another way is to smear the
surface Of large plate with lard and place
it where the ants can get it. Occasionally
turn the plate over a fire and the ants will
drop off into the fire as the lard melts.
Mr.. II. M. B., Greenville, Ga, writes that
"some time last summer" he sent US some
'roc1s taken from lady's we'll for ex
animation. He also wrote us some time
this year. in regard to opening a hennery,
or chicken farm To these inquiries he has
received no reply and he is curious to know
why we did not reply. The answer is, we
do not remember anything about it. 1t is
probable that the letter contained other
matters that caused it to be sent to the
business office, just as this one does. The
Constitution is a big paper and the CORE
spondence is distributed to the editors
of the different departments according
TO its character. If you ask about farming
very we'll its goes to the editor Of the
FARMERS department; if about suhscrip-
ton, or advertising, it goes to the business
Office; about poetry, to the Iolg-Lalied edi-
tor and so on. But il yOu in one ana the
same letter, ask about minerals, ABOUT SOW
ing oats, about raising chickens, about
poetry and about the subscription price
as YOU do in the present letter-and long
letter at that-the poor editor is at his
wits end to know how to divide 1t around,
without rewriting it, and he is very strong
tod m, n
and sometimes he does do it. Several hun
dreds Of letters are received by The COnsti-
tuition every day. and it is a big job to
open read and properly distribute them.
Often 1t occurs that the inside address IS
to the Farm and Farmers department, and
the first page is about farming, but the let
ter winds UP with an inquiry ABOUT sub
scriptiOn or other business matter. Such q
letter will probably be sent at once to the
editor of the Farm and Farmers depart
ment who will try to answer the questions
about farming, but knows nothing about
the subscription department. The proper
rule is to write to the business manager
about business; to the managing editor
about politics. to the agricultural editor
about farming and not to mix religion and
politics" or farming and poetry" in the
same letter.
This gentle rebuke is intended for all who
disregard the rule t5ee the standing notice
at head of this department,
Now for the questions in this letter: /.
We know of nothing that will absolutely
kill nutgrass on an extensive scale. If it
be plowed up, or hoed over, every few days
during the growing season, it will finally
destroy it. The most effective treatment
for field operations is as follows: PIoW the
ground thoroughly in August and Septem-
her. ard SOW in oats at the rate OF two or
three bushels per acre. Cut off the oats
In spring. or Craze them, and SOW i'll COW
peas in April, seeding heavily, broadcast.
Now the peavines in August and convert
into nay. Pillow the land thoroughly at once
and in September October SOW again to
oats or rye. The second year-after the
oats or rye-the field might be planted in
cotton.
g The 10th or 18th Of May is rather late
to plant cotton a matter of choice; but
if the land be rich and it be planted in an
early-mat turing variety, and with rather
narrow rows, it will make good yield. We
have some Olanted after rye now just COM
ing up-this May 18th. We expect a yield
of at least one bale per acre.
A Subscriber Whitney, TeX.-1. want to
save for seed next year the black-eyed peas
which L am raising this year How shall |
save them from the WeeVilS?
2. Can deWberries, blackberres and ever
bearing mulberres be raised from the seed :?
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