The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-08-06

stock to keep on hand for sale to those
who wish to get them. But IL" gel sfai
plantation purposes how would cross OF
Poland China boar on common lock 90 I!
And would not cross oil Poiana nina E,, On
are my favorite breeds. CD L have a line
piece of land well adopted to clover Qed)
1t is now i'm cotton, but very late HOW
would il do to sow clover in cotton. say
about August 18th. and pillow it ve.y lightly
with scrape run Nat!
ID This question is rather too general
You should state the purpose you have i'm
view whether to breed hogs for sale as
breeders, or for making pork. If the former
il would be best to make a speciality of
one or two of the most popular breeds for
which there will be the greatest demand
This we believe to be the improved Berk-
shire. If for producing bacon for home use,
we would prefer the Essex. We do not
advise crossing of two distinct breeds I'M
less with a definite idea of improving and
fixing new type or breed. The result of
such crossing is usually a sort IF monte
script, without any distinctness and per-
manence of character. The ordinary non
scientific hog raiser would better confine
himself to established breeds and hot attem
to originate a new one. OF course. there is
no objection ito crossing thoroughbred
boar on the better type of mongrels, or
common stock, always keeping a thorough
bred boar; and the best sows from these
SioSSeS may De retained as breeders, Oc-
caslohally getting fresh accession of
thorough blood of a different Family. in
order To avoid too close in-and-in breeding
There is no vital objection TO the
plan you suggest. We would prefer to
wait until September, early i'm October,
To SOW the clover seed. You can scrape IN
the seed just well i'm August having the
plows TO follow Immediately behind u gang
of cotton pickers.
T. f., Cenoby, Gal. l have a young mule
that does not sweat. She has shed of.
takes on flesh fast and seems to be i'm per
iect health, but she gets warm and pants
at work. Give cure and remedy.
= L have heard that poor soil can be
made rich by planting peas and other crops
That draw nitrogen from the air without
the use of fertilizers. DO you think it can
be done? II so, where would il get its
potash and phosphate from?
). have always put my cotton seed un-
der my corn and guano under cotton |
think l will reverse it next year and use
seed and acid under cotton. DO you think
the seed would do better for cotton than
L. thought of putting seed in deep furrow
green and cover with a fork and let them
stay there till they came up then put my
acid on them and bed on them, and that
Will kill them. My object i'm killing them in
the ground is to keep the ammonia from
escaping, which seems to be the case when
you compost them. Which would you adj
wise me to do-as L spoke of, or compost
them?
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of cotton seed for 200 pounds of meal?
6. Is the oil in seed any good as a feru-
liZer?
4 Cotton seems to be a heterogeneous plant.
Does il take il from the air or soil?
l. Your mule is probably affected with
what is called roaring" for which we
know of no remedy excepting, possibly, a
surgical operation.
? We have no doubt of the fact that a
piece of worn land can be brought TO
high state of fertility by planting il in
peas, provided you restore to the soil the
peaVines or the manure that would result
from feeding the pea vines to stock. Every
soil that is worthy of cultivation ut all
contains "a large store of both potash and
phosphoric acid, besides other elements of
plant food. But 10y far the greater part
OF these elements is in an insolunle ana
unavailable condition. BY thorough pre-
paration. planting it i'm peas, turning under
the peaVnes. or the manure from stock FED
on them, more and more of the plant FOOD
Cthe potash, etc..) becomes available There
is potash enough in an acre of ordinary
soil TO produce several hundred bales OF
cotton and thousands of bushels of corn
or oats or other grain. 1t must, however,
be made available by the arts of culture
deep anG thorough blowing and pulVerlza-
ZION ieguminous crops. etc.
3. We would mach prefer using the seed
on corn and the guano on cotton
=.
with lot manure, acid phosphate ana plenty
Of water.
: No; YOU would not exactly rob your
land. but you could not afford TO make the
exchange on the basis Of 200 pounds OF meal
Tor one ton of cotton seed, unless the meal
were delivered to YOU and the seed taken
away without labor or expense of hauling
an vour mart. one ton of cotton seed is
about equal to zoo pounds of meal in FER
tilZing value.
6. oil is of no value as a fertilizer.
Z. Cotton gets its nitrogen from. the SOIL
l. NJ. L.. Bloomer, Ark have young
stud four years old. Some three weeks ago
noticed him biting his behE anu i nnnsa
on examination ! found l lttie an l .,ilr,s
his belly and on one lex. IL appears 10 l.'!
and annoy him "A great deal nave lleu
various linimentS-Soft soap anu Sail Ntlt
applied and let stay SIX or SlSht Hp,i .
then washed clean and bathed win plue-
stone and with burnt copperas ana SIeaNe'
and nothing seems to DO any Sood. Name
tbe disease and give me 4 remedy to cure
il if you can. l never saw anything IKE IL
The soap or Jumps resemble mango OF sur
felt scabs.
There are SO many eruptions of the skin
that il is not easy to diagnose from such
meager description. a safe treatment IS 10
give a laxative. say / pound of glaubef
salts in three or four quarts OF wafer
Then give . drachms of acibate or blcaf-
Donate of potash twice a DAY IN drlIIhnis
water. Wash the skin with solution OF
dram of bicarbonate of soda and l drachm
of carbolic acid i'm one quart OF water
first cleaning the surface with tepid wafer
II scabby. soak the scabs i'm fresh sweet
oil for several hours and then wash with
tepid water and CASTLE soap. Also Apply
an ointment of sulphur, or iodde OF sulphur
every day. If this does not seem to nave
the desired effect change to mercural ONT
nf C1llrs al L. >
SUM or to hyposulphite of soda-three
drachms to a quart of water.
l. B. De Sofa, Aliss.-l. / have a fine horse
six wears old had dsstemper last February,
rode him very fast five miles, he seemed
To be better before he was ridden, he SWelled
LIZ Lfaal.