Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-06-24

This is her first calf She is part Jersey
and part Durham and gave promise of
being a fine COW in every way.
To stop a COW sucking herself the most
common appliance is a surcingle placed
around the body of the cow just back OF
the front legs and a pole run from 1t be-
tween the. front legs and tied under her
| laws to a halter. There should be about
| six inches of cord between the end of
! the pole and the surcingle and the other
end of the pole and the halter to allow
freedom to the motion of the head. Stops
may also be stopped by smearing the
| teats with lard mixed with some bad
Tasting substance such as pepper or ASA
foetida, but with the latter substance
/ there is some danger of making the milk
smell and taste bad unless the udder is
washed clean before each milking.
WHAT CONSTITUTES A STAND OF
COTTON7
d. E. H, Jackson's Gap, Ala, writes:
have five acres of cotton and want TO
know If it would pay me to buy nitrate
of soda and put around 1t. / put zoo
| pounds Of guano under IL when l plant
| ed it, VIII cotton make better ylelo
TO leave two stalks in the hills, and how
far apart should cotton be planted? what
is a good remedy for chickens with
cholera? At least / take 1t to De
cholera for they commence by choking
and the next day they are nearly dead
Where cotton Is small and backward
and it is desirable to push the growth
very rapidly, an application Of nitrate OF
soda will be found helpful For ordinary
uplands we would not suggest the use OF
] more than 100 pounds per acre. 1t should
! be put on now very soon, for II put on
much later It is liable to stimulate the
growth at the expense of fruit. Nitrate
of soda is a plant energizer and tonic and
supplies an element OF plant food in
which much of our land Is deficient.
Considering the fact that you have used
only a light application Of fertilizer, II
! should pay you to use the nitrate. When
YOU use this material apply 1t as top
dressing; that is, use it on top OF the
ground and alongside but not in contact
with the plants. We are leaving two
stalks of cotton per hill on the college
farm, believing that in this way we Will
secure a larger amount OF cotton tnan
from one single plant left in the hill.
Where one plant is left you will secure
more stalk and weed, but we think not
as many mature bolls as from two small
er plants On land that will make bale
more per acre we would leave the stalks
about two feet apart when planted in
rows IL feet wide. On thinner land the
stalks should be left closer together.
/ am inclined to think that your chick
ems are affected with catarrh rather than
cholera. The indications in cholera are
largely those of a serious bowl trouble,
and as the only symptom you mention is
that of choking, / believe the trouble
was one of the air passages rather than
of the digestive tract. In cholera medi-
cinal treatment accomplishes very little
ence the disease has developed. The pre-
cautions to be taken comprise the KILL
ing of all sick chickens and burning their
bodies, with thorough cleaning and disiu-
lection of the hen house, yards and runs.
Two teaspooonfuls of sulphuric acid and
two drachms of copperas to a quart
and a half or two quarts of water, and
this given to the chickens as their drink
ing water will act very nicely In keeping
cholera out of the flock. To treat chick
ems sick of cholera take one-half pint or
the above mixture add to 1t one ounce
of essence of peppermint and give the sick
chickens one teaspoonful every hour.
1t is better, however, to kill and burn
chickens sick with cholera than to run
the risk of the disease spreading through
the flock while treating the sick ones.
For catarrh tn etreatment would be to
wash out the mouth and nostils with So
luton of Is gains of boric acid TO an
ounce of water once or twice a day. me
following should be thoroughly mixed TO-
gether and given in three grain doses
once a day to each medium sized chick
en-. increasing or decreasing the dose
somewhat according to size of fowl.
SECOND APPLICATIONS OF FER
TILIZERS.
w. NJ, Monroe, n. c., writes: 1 have
an acre in corn which l would like to
| make forty bushels on. broke the
land five inches deep in the fall and
then cross-broke it this spring oats
and crimson clover were grown on the
| land last year followed with peas.
put in two tons of manure. When
planted the. corn I put 200 pounds OF
1873. viii 1T pay me to use nitrate
of soda on this corn and how much?
l would like to know how to build
sweet potato house.
] With land prepared and fertilized as
described in your letter you should
make a good yield of corn If the season
is favorable We have had an album
dance of wet weather lately and the
corn is coming along very rapidly The
advisability of using nitrate as a top
dressing on this crop will be deter
mined by the weather which prevails
| in the next three or four weeks. Should
II turn off dry we would apply nitrate
at the rate of 100 pounds pep acre
since corn is a crop which revels in
this particular element of plant food,
and it is very important that it be
stimulated to a vigorous, continued
growth from the time it punches to
shoot into tassel until the ear has been
perfected. The vigor of the corn plant
must be maintained during the period
in which the pollen is developing, or
else the ear will not be properly or
completely fertilized. You can judge
for yourself of the weather conditions
and the desirability of applying nitrate
better than we can possibly indicate
to you in a letter. With corn in such