The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-04-01

issue as to acid phosphate, kanit and
cotton seed meal. i believe you said one
pound of each to n hill. L cannot get
kainit, but have the others. What can /
use in the place of kaint and will this COM
bination and amount give the very best
possible results on old red clay land, or
could you suggest another plan so / can
try both. take great interest in your de-
partment.
In place of the kaint you can use one
fourth as much muriate of potash or twice
as much hardwood ashes or half much
cotton hull ashes. "Old red clay" land is
not the best soil for melons, and you will
not be likely to succeed remarkably well on
such land. A light sandy soil is best for
melons. But you may help the matter by
using half bushe of well rotted
stable manure to each hill. Make large
holes, throw aside the clay dug therefrom
and fill in with top soil, manure and fer
tilizers-all well mixed together.
TO t. Il. W., Owensville. Ga.-Please
see reply to query from +. A. B., Mistletoe,
Ca, above. 1t will not pay at any time to
buy sets from which to raise onions for
market. The proper way is to grow the
onions from the seed, which is a much
cheaper plan and is generally practiced by
those who make q business of growing
onions for market. Send 80 cents to William
Atlee Burpee d Co., Philadelphia, Pa, for
copy of Greiners New Onion Culture"
which will tell you all about it. 1t is now
too late in the season to plant seeds or
sets with reasonable hope of a good crop.
A very rich and highly MANFRED sandy
loan is the soil for onions. 1t is not easy
to make the soil too rich. One ton of
guano to the acre is not considered an eX-
traordinary application. IT would require n
good many bushels of sets to plant an acre
say twenty or twenty-five.
Mrs H. Il. w, Gosport. Ala.-Win the
editor and some Of the readers of the farm
and farmers department of The Constitu-
ton please tell me what to do for my cat
tie? ] have lost eighteen calves and seven
COWS from swelling under the throat and
they derive no benefit from anything that
! have done for them. Your Information
through The Constitution will greatly obliGe
me.
Your description of the symptoms is so
very meager that it is impracticable to
diagnose the disease with any certainty.
The fact that it is so fatal proves that
1T is malignant disease: hut we can
only suggest that it is what is known as
anthrax" or "charbon.' 1t is deadly
disease and few recover from il, especially
of those first attacked. You should prompt
~ bury-deeply-the carcass of every ami
al dying Of the disease. 1t is not worth
while for you to attempt any treatmen-if
we are correct in our surmse that it Is IAN
thraX." Have veterinary surgeon to in
spect your cattle.
r. F. T.. Fowle, y. C.-Wrl YOU please
tell me through your valuable paper how
/ preserve beans. After tneN are SdtH-
cred they almost always are ruined ny be-
ing bored into by bugs or worms IL you
Will give some plan by which they can De
preserved YOU will greatly oblige
1t is an easy matter to preserve beans
from the attacks of weeyils. Shell them
dry thoroughly, put them in wide-mouthed
bottles or jars add u piece of gum cam
phor as large pea for each quart OF
beans, or one-half teaspoonful or spirits OF
tulDentine or the same of bisulphtde of
e of beans
be protected store them in tight barrels and
add two or three ounces of the bisulphide
and cover close.
To J. N Fornby Long Cane. Gave
know nothing, personally, of the q. l. {.
swine. If il is a white breed-like the Old
Chester white-we would be afraid 10
adopt it. as white skinned hogs are not
apt TO do well in our climate. We would
much prefer the Berkshire or the Poland
China, as We know that these are good
TO w l.. Cardin, Athens. Tenn.-Your
mare has dyspepsia, aggravated by worms
Give her a run of several weeks or LONGER
in "A pasture Change her feed eSpeclallN
if fed on corn heretofore substituting
scalded oats. bran mashes, green food etc.
Examine her teeth and see if they are al
right Give immediate attention to the
worms. Administer as one dose the loioN-
ing: one drachm copperas, one dfaehln
of tartar emetic, two drachmS OF hhSetU
meal or cotton seed meal. Repeat 1t night
and morning for one week. Then give d
Durgative of one ounce spirits OF turpeh-
tine and one pint raw linseed OIL as one
dose After purging is over give inns tonic.
one ounce tncture Of iron, one ounce thlc-
ture of gentian. ten ounces or water 1lNc
two tablespoonfuls three times n DAY lot
a week. then stop a week; then give II
another week. Then to the worms again.
Repeat the first treatment Tor worms the
fourth week, followed by the turpentlhe ana
linseed oil. Then resume the tonic as before
one week at a time.
Subscriber. Sidney, y. CT Is there any
remedy for the smell and taste of Wild on
ions in milk and butter. our fields ana pas
lures are well set in the Wild onion, ana
it's the first green vegetable that naheS
it's apDaarance in late winter or early
spring. and cows are fond of it; 1t is inn
possible 10 make any use of the milk or
butter at this writing unless we cohilnc the
cows in stables and feed on dry food.
. What will give butter a yellow co!or2 !
ours is perfectly white and crumbly. is
milking to give color. or do they generally |
use coloring matter? If so what IS II? We
feed on peavine and crabgrass hay and |
cotton seed and corn meal mixed; cows III
good condition.
Mr.. c. o. Winning, Pearsails, Tex, is in
formed that the most popular variety Of
melons for shipping Gin Georgia. is kOlb's /
Gem next August, or Georgia Eattlesnake. |
j. H. Alexander & CO., Augusta Ca. can
supply YOU
l. We know Of no means OF removing the !
faint of wild onions from milk and butter |
1t is claimed that thorough aeration of the |
milk will remove it. This consists in fore
ing a stream of air through the milk as
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