Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-07-07

have excited your couriosity and interest.
! am glad that you wrote and trust the
matter viii now be clear to you.
WHITEWAsH AND ITS PREPARAL
TON
W. H g. Box Spring. Ga. writes.
WIN you please give me a recipe for a
good whitewash? I have seen one print
ed several times. but failed to preserve
IT, AS you know, just lime by itself
does not last very long.
Below / give you the recipe for gov
eminent whitewash, and I do not think
you will be able to make a whitewash
that will be more satisfactory than this
Slack half bushel of unslaked lime
with boiling water, keeping it covered
during the process. Strain 1t and add
peck of salt, dissolved in warm water.
three pounds Of ground rice, put in boil
ing water and boiled to a thin paste;
half a pound of powdered Spanish whit
Ing, and pound of clear glue, dis
solved in warm water; mix these well
together, and let the mixture stand for
several days. Keep the wash thus pre-
pared In a kettle or portable furnace.
and when used put 1t on as hot as pos
sible with either painters or whitewash
brushes.
HOW TO PREVENT THE LOSS OF
SILAGE.
F. w. Villa RIGA, Ca, writes: I
waste every year good deal of silage
by its spelling around the edges NY
silo is built of 2xfs set edges together
upon good concrete foundation. The
slaves are well spiked together, but
have an air space occasionally which 1
think is the cause of the spiked silage,
Could line the silo with boards to stop
these leaks? We are dairying in con-
rection with cotton farming and it
makes the best combination I ever saw
We plant about half as much land in
cotton as we did before we commenced
to keep cows and make more cotton.
We feed cotton seed meal and corn ST.
lage almost the year around
1t will be a difficult matter to make
siio alright where the type of con-
struction indicated in your letter has
been followed. If the 2x4 slaves had
been beveled and tongued and sphned
together. you would have had no trouble
with the air getting in and spelling the
silage around the outside edges Put
ting battens on the inside of the silo
would hardly be satisfactory, as IT would
make number OF grooves and prevent
the silage settling readily when it is
being put In OF course, II you could
keep one or two men in who were capa-
bit, much could be done toward obviat-
ing any trouble from the source mem
toned But then the chances fare that
the silo would expand and contract more
or less and that the battens would split
and warp. We believe all that you can
do that would be really satisfactory un-
der the circums tances is to tighten the
slaves by means of the iron bands which
encircle the silo. OF course, one must
be careful and not get them too tight
as the settling of the silage may break
them. We have the tongue and grooved
and splined silos on the farm and they
are working very nicely, and up to this
time we have had no trouble with spoil
ed silage, though there has been some
complaint from number who have evil
IDENTIFY followed the type OF construction
described in your letter Undoubtedly,
a concrete silo is the thing to build,
and if any more are erected on the
college farm. they will be of concrete.
Where the sand and stone can be Sc
cured and there is some leisure. as there
is on almost every farm at certain sea-
sons of the year. a concrete silo can
be constructed very cheaply. OF course,
the forms cost something, but sets of
forms may be secured by several in
given community and thus the cost
greatly reduced.
Undoubtedly, dairying in connection
with cotton farming is to be commended
and Will result In larger crops OF cot
tom as you have found from practical
experience, and In the Improvement Of
our farm lands as well. No better ra-
ton can be found than silage and cot
ton seed meal for dairy cows. and 1t