The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-13

about the following proportions for cotton:
Acid phosphate, 500 pounds; green cotton
seed, $50 pounds; kainit. $50 pounds. Mix
these materials with about one ton of the
rotted vegetable matter. more if plentiful.
Be sure to wet the cotton seed very thor
oughly. Start bed with The vegetable
matter, then cotton seed well wetted. then
acid phosphate and kanit mixed and so on.
Cover the heap with the rotten matter. In
three weeks cut down and thoroughly mix
and reheap. About the only advantage that
you will secure will be the rotting Of the
cotton seed. 1t would be better to Sub
stitute 700 pounds of cotton seed neal for
each ton of green seed; mix the meal, acid
and l.anit together and distribute in the
burrows. and then the scrapngs. If you
want good results put at least half the
amount of the formula given above on each
acre. and when your manure gives out
stop and do not plant the remainder CT the
land. Small amounts of fertilizers per acre
pay the largest per cent profit, but larger
amounts enables one to cut down the area
in cultivation and reduce the labor aid
feed account.
]. A. p, Pond, Text have horse
which has recently become lame mem, IN one me 6 Oh
in his hook joint as we'll as in his ankle
He has been stiff to certain extent. Also
around the edge of his hoof is very sore,
and he bears no weight on it 'yhatever
Some have pronounced it capped hook
while others say it is foot evil, but no rem
edes have done any good. Say what you
think of it, and give treatment.
The trouble is probably in the foot, and
your account of the symptoms indicates
what is called quittor, and this was prob
ably caused by a diseased frog or thrush
which was neglected. If taken in time, or
as soon as it breaks open at the top of the
hoof poultice the foot for twenty-four
the bottom Of the foot and open a vent
there for the matter, if possible; but do not
cut into the foot so as to make 1t bleed.
If no opening can be easily made at the
bottom, open freely at the top and probe 1t
to see which way the opening leads, and
how deep. Then follow the probe down
with knife and open right out and down
the hoof. far the hole goes, liking
out a V-shaped piece of the wall, so as
to allow the matter to escape at the bottcm.
Scarify the purple flesh, and then wash it
out with warm water and follow with a
wash of drachms blue stone and Il pint
OF water. Inject it down we'll into the
wound twice day. After three or four
days dilute the wash. If, after Il week or
ten days the wound does not appear to be
getting well change the wash to drachms
sulphate of zinc and y pint of water. Be
careful to keep the wound open all the time
down to the bottom. Keep the shoe off I'M
bar shoe.
D. o. D., Luther. Tex, will plant two
acres of sandy land in watermelons and
cantaloupes. He wants to know
]. When to plant
9. What kind of seed.
8. What distance to give.
4. What manure and how much. He says
his land will make three-quarters of bale
of cotton per acre, or forty bushels of
la n 10 know.
5. How many bushels of seed fifteen acres
of second years prairie land viii make
and the best time to sow it; the land equal
to fifty or sixty bushels of corn per acre,
or three-quarters of a bale of cotton. We
answer best we know:
/. Plant middle of March. Plant the
same hills every ten days until you get
stand and danger Of frost is over,
g You do not say, but we presume you
will plant for market. If Il near market,
plant Jones's Jumbo watermelon: if to
ship plant holb Gems, or Georgia Rattle
snake.
8. Plant 12x12, and leave plant to
each hill.
T. Use 100 pounds acid phosphate, 100
pounds cotton seed meal and 100 pounds OF
kainit per acre OF cantaloupes, plan sev-
eraI varieties nutmeg, Hackensack5 tic.
Hills 5x4
s. We presume German millet is r1eant
We don't know, but suppose fifty bushels.
Sow from April to June.
O. c.. Garlandsville, Gal have a mare
five years old that came here from Atlanta
about the 18th of December. with dlStelnper
She had been lanced in the throat just over
the windppe and the wound had almost
healed. 1t soon healed and she appeared all
right for a time, but, after a few days
began to wheeze when going up hill. She
gets worse all the time. When her head IS
held very high her breathing is very diff
cult. Her throat is enlarged where it was
lanced tor snagged, as some have suggest
ed.) She has been in this condition about
seven weeks and is now totally UNFIT for
work.
If you can diagnose the case from my
meager description please do so IN the col
umns of The Constitution. and obhSe a
subscriber.
1t is very probable that your mare has be
come permanently affected with what is
called roaring" the result of t'ae attack
of distemper. Possibly a skillful 1a'terinary
surgeon might do something to relieve her.
1t is doubtless an affection of the wind
pipe, a t'lmor has formed viii presses
the Windptpe.
w. c. w, Draketown, Ga.-Apswer the
following questions if you please:
l. VIII it iniure cotton to SOW peas broad
cast at the last blowing, if so can l re
place the damage by following with small
grain in the fall?
2. Knowing that deep preparation is es-
sential for the making of the stalk and fur
nshing it with moisture, and that 81 allow
cultivation is essential for making the fruit
of corn, at what stage of the plant would
it be best to stop cultivating for the stalk
and go to cultiVating for the fruit?
/. 1t certainly would iniure cotton to sow
peas broadcast at the last plOWlhg of the
cotton, but we cannot say how mach. We
do not see how you could possibly repair
the damage to the cotton by following the
peas with small grain. We think it a bet
ter practice to rye in September lin
the cotton field to be graZed lightly during
the winter, and turned under in February
for corn; or you may oats in the cotton
in October to be harvested next June and
follow with peas.
9. We would prepare the ianI thoroughly
before planting and not pillow it deep moro
than one time after cultivation commend es
If the soil be mellow and easily plowed at
first blowing we would plow shallow from
first to last. There is no real distinction
between "cultvating for the stalk ard cul-
tivating for the fruit"
e. NJ. c., Pools, s. CT. How would it
pay to use equal parts of ammoniated
guano. acid phosphate and cotton seed meal
on cotton, taking the land as it comes
good as we'll as thin land; world less
meal and more acid be better?
9. What is a complete manure for water
melon, and how much to use, and how best
applied?