Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-13

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much medicine. A very good tonic and
one that is often used for young dogs is
copperas. Powder it fine, cut a slip in
piece of fat meat and pour In about one
fourth of a teaspoonful and give to the
puppy. He will swallow ii down before
tasting the copperas. Nux vomica is also
good as a nervous tonic. Give one to two
grains every few days. Keep the puppy
in nice, comfortable quarters and feed him
on warm liquid food. or coarse cruel.
such as bread mashed up with potliquor
or butter milk.
G. r. H, Heard, Ga:
am a subscriber and admirer of your
valuable paper and have confidence in
your answers to queries, therefore desire
to make an inquiry. VIII you please tell
me how to clean sorghum cane seed from
the heads? 1 desire to raise the seed for
market, but don't know how to clean
them. I am very welracquainted with the
method of producing the seed, as l raise
some every year for my hogs, but never
have undertaken to clean any seed. So
any information you can give on the mat
ter will be appreciated. L am young
farmer and desire to fall into line by d.
versifying my crops.
Answer: 1t is always gratifying to hear
OF the young men who are engaged In
farming making an effort to introduce
system of diversified agriculture. 1t is the
only safe, reliable plan which will make
farming pleasant, attractive and profit
able. Unless you expect to grow sorghum
seed quite extensively for market, an
economical way Of cleaning the seed from
the heads is to take a common curry
comb and comb the seed off. One hand
can shell off several bushels a day in that
ing machine, write TO the Cordwell Ma
chine Co., Richmond, Va, or Dehner
Wuerpel Mill Building Co., st. Louis, Mo.
B. w. Norwood, Ca:
II 1 take 1900 pounds of u per cent
available phosphoric acid and one per cent
potash, mix with 200 pounds cottonseed
meal. what would be the chemical analy-
sis of the 1900 pounds?
What is the analysis of 1000 pounds of
the 121 acid, 500 pounds kainit and 500 of
cotton seed meal, mixed together?
How would the 1000 pounds analyze.
Answer through paper as soon as possible
Answer: The mixture in formula No.
would analyze about as follows:
Phosphoric acid, available. s. 1-2 per cent.
Ammonia. .....s ......2 "a per cent.
Potash.... 80. .''''' ..''l per cent.
Total available. 49,. IL IA per cent.
The percentage of phosphoric acid in the
cotton seed meal helps in raising the per-
centages of that element. as II also does
the potash so that counting it in, you
will have a goods showing the different
elements named in. about the proportions
given. You get what is commonly known
standard" grade fertilizer.
Formula No. 2, as given in your in
quiry Should analyze about as follows:
Potash. ......S IL per cent.
Phosphorus acid. available - per cent.
Total available. IL 1-2 per cent,
This would probably give you a better
balanced fertilizer than No. /, particularly.
for use on gray, sandy land under cotton.
f. H., Undine. Ca:
AS am a reader of The Semi Weekly
Journal / would like for you to give me
little information through the columns
of your paper.
Ny father has a horse that has fits. He
is about Is years old and is a good work
horse, but has fits about every two weeks.
He trembles and shakes and then falls
down. When they go off he seems all
right; he eats hearty and is in pretty fair
condition. / have never seen him when he
had them. / live some miles from him,
and would like to see him to see exactly
any information whatever.
cannot see any remedy for him. If he
was mine I would kill him.
Answer.-Your horse probably needs a
good nervous tonic. Give him IL to is
grains pulverized nux vomica in a bran
mash occasionally. I have never seen
horse afflicted as you describe this one
and Il might be best for you to call IN
the, aid Of a regular veterinary surgeon II
he is a valuable animal.
J.\C. N, Callie, Ca:
Please answer in your inquiry depart
ment what to do for my horse.
He is in good order. but when 1 drive
him he gets crippled in his front rect;
when 1 drive on dry ground he travels
very well, but when / go through water
at all he limps badly. have tried pour
ing hot ta1low in the frog of his foot but
Il only helps a short while as he soon gets
as bad as ever. The bottom Of his foot
IS brittle, will crumble like chalk when
I dig 1t out with knife. The bottom of his
hoof and the top don't seem to grow to-
gether good at the toe and gravel packs
in there. II you can suggest anything that
will help him I will greatly appreciate 1t.
I have been a subscriber TO The Journal
a year and think ii good paper.
Answer-Your horse may be slightly
foundered. There are a great many dis
eases of the foot that sometimes in order
to definitely determine the exact trouble 1t
becomes. necessary TO call in veterinary
surgeon. You would probably get relief
for your horse by changing the common
method of shoeing. The hoof can be soft
tened by oiling well with castor oil, and
continuing to keep the bottom Of the hoof
we'll oiled and the sides up to skin. In
shoeing have a piece of sole leather cut
large enough TO cover the entire bottom
of the hoof. place the shoe on and drive
the nails through the leather so as to
hold IT on. Then pack cotton batting sat
urated with tar under the leather, so as
to soften up the bottom of the hoof. This
plan has given permanent relief in many
cases. Keep the stall clean and dry. Let
the horse stand in his stall on litter
made of sawdust or straw from to 4
inches deep.
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