Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-01

and il should be put under the drill row
at the time of planting. The yield VIII
be determined largely by seasonal and
soil conditions and yields anywhere from
100 to 500 bushels per acre are recorded.
REMEDY FOR sTRINGY MILK.
b. f. c., Triton, Ca, writes: 1 have
COW two and half years old with calf
six months old. She has always been
well, but something is wrong with her
milk now 1t will not get sour, but gets
thick three or four hours after milking
and Is not fit to use. I feed her on corn
meal and scraps of vegetables. She runs
on the wire grass in the woods and
swamps. Please let me know what to do
for her. se,a, t.
Your COW is producing what is known
as stringy milk. This may be due to one
of several causes. but generally results
from specific fungi developing In the
LIQUID The spores are present In the
system Of the COW, but 1t is seldom
that this trouble lasts for more than ten
DAYS or two weeks at a time. Cows af-
fected often have rise Of one to two
degrees of temperature. which probably
accounts for the falling OFF in milk. The
| fungi causing stringy milk does not
grow out into filaments or threads with
In the DOOY Ol Tic COWf U0b dAbCA tAAS
| milk has been drawn and allowed to
stand for a little while, the surface lay
| er is often found to be one dense net
work of fllaments, and a needle insert
| ed in the milk and lifted out draws it
out into long threads as 1t were. The
infection may arise from the COW drink
ing water from a place where there is
much dirt and decaying vegetable mat
ter. In fact. the incubation of milk
with water from such places has resulted
in the development of the fungus which
produces stringy milk The important
| thing for you to do, therefore, is to
cleanse the udder very carefully and all
the milk vessels. Keep the COW out Of
the marshy woods to which you refer
and aconfine her to clean, dry pasture.
Give her two drains of bisulphide of soda
daily for a few days, and with careful
feeding and treatment and thorough
cleansing of the vessels, you should be
able to get rid of the trouble before very
long.
BUILDING UP A WORKOUT FARM.
A correspondent writes: have just
thing for you to do, therefore, is to
raise frain and forage cheaper than to
have to be worked up, but 1 have the
droppings from $50 horses to place on the
100 acres. would like to have you sug-
gest the most feasible way to find out
just what this land would need and to
procure the best and quickest results.
Any one having the droppings from $50
horses should have no difficulty In put
ting all the vegetable matter and humus
In the soil needed. OF course, land of
this character. should be we'll supplied
with phosphoric acid and potash. Yard
manure, as you probably know, Is lower
in phosphorus than in any other element
Moreover, soil of the type ordinarily
found around Augusta is likely to be
rather low in the two mineral elements
mentioned. You would find 1t advan-
tageous to use yith your yard manure
several hundred pounds of a formula
containing not less THANH 10 per cent
of phosphorus and to per cent of pot
ash, depending somewhat on the char
acter of the crop you expect to grow.
You should arrange to follow a system
attic rotation of crops For instance, you
might plant cowpeas or soy beans as
summer crop and grow oats or oats and
vetch as a winter crop. BY using the
yard manure and fertilizer suggested
with proper top dressings of sulphate of
ammonia or nitrate of soda, you can I'M
doubtedly raise large and profitable crops
on this land. 1t may take several years
to accomplish this result, but you will