Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-12-24

tivation you give the soil, and season
al conditions.
TREATMENT OF COLD IN MULES.
w. l.. s., Castleberry, Ala, writes:
1 would like to know what to do for
my mule. He is, very poor and thin
and acts like person with a severe
cold also have a young COW with a
calf three weeks old She did we'll
until about ten days ago she COM
menced going down. l feed her on
shorts and chops. would also like to
know what to do for her.
Your mule may be suffering from
severe cold, and in that case prob
ably the best thing you can do is to
give a purgative of Epson salts as a
drench Use a pound to a pound and a
half of salts depending on the size of
the mule. Give the animal complete
rest for a few days and keep in sit
uation where the air is pure and whole
some. Vary the diet as much as pos
sible and give bran mashes for sew
eral days. Green feed will also be
found helpful. Be sure to keep the
animal out Of draughts and blanket to
prevent its becoming chilled or cold at
night Hold the mules head over a
bucketful of boiling water so it will
be compelled to inhale the steam. This
treatment repeated four or five times
a day will often be found very helpful
and should effect a cure where precau-
tions are exercised.
The cause of your COW going down
in milk is difficult to determine. Some
times animals drop off suddenly in milk
flow due to exposure to cold and wet.
Some times the ration is not suited to
the needs. Very often cows give a good
flow of milk for a short time after
calving and then drop off in yield ow-
ing to the fact that they have not been
bred and selected with the idea of be-
ing heavy producers and keeping up the
flow for a given length of time. The
power to continue yielding a large flow
Of milk is Influenced to a considerable
degree by individuality and in cases
where nature has placed the limit, you
can do little to increase the flow or to
maintain it. We would suggest that
you give a ration consisting of equal
parts of shorts, cotton seed meal and
bran. Feed it by weight at the rate
of about a pound to pound and a half
per 100 pounds of live weight. Give her
purgative of Epson salts and feed
her only pure wholesome roughage in
such quantity as she will eat up read
| lily. Give the concentrated feed In two
equal parts night and morning. Milk
her regularly and supply an abundance
of pure water. If there is any pastur-
age available, especially such as might
be derived from winter growing cereals,
let her have an opportunity to secure
as much green feed as possible.
PREPARING LAND FOR ALFALFA.
H. H. NJ. Hogansville, Ga, writes: i
wisch to inform myself on the subject
of alfalfa, as 1 am planning to seed
one acre in the spring and perhaps sew
eral the following spring. Please ad-
wise what kind of lime is best to use
for lining soil to be seeded to alfalfa,
and give me any other information that
would be helpful
Alfalfa is a difficult crop to raise
and one must take plenty of time to
prepare the land with thoroughness. In
Georgia it is important that an abun-
dance of lime be used. We would advise
| the application of a minimum of two
tons per acre OF the finely ground raw
rock. You should select a grade of rock
which runs high in carbonate of lime,
not less than 80 per cent. 1t should be
ground fine enough that none of the
particles will be larger than half the
size of a grain of wheat. If ground
to an impalpable powder it will not be
so satisfactory as in this condition II
tends to form little concretions in the
soil and probably does not become 50