Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-07-02
QUESTIONS ASKED AND ANSWERED
Yours very truly,

Atlanta, Ga: I am writing to
you IN regard to a sick cow l have,
asking your information 1 have
a cow with a calf 3 months old,
and about every two weeks my cow
gets sick, does not eat much and
will lie around all the morning. 1
feed her night and morning one
half bushel of cotton seed hulls
with one quart of cotton seed meal
we'll mixed. 1 have her in a fine
pasture with fresh water, but she
continues to fail in her milk. She
is said to be a four-gallon COW,
but she only gives three quarts In
the morning and four at night, and
I have had her two months and
attended to her myself. Please an
swer.
MRS. L. S. LEE.
ANSWER.
1t is impossible for me to tell
just what the trouble is with your
COW, but the feed that you are Civ
ing her is a fat producing feed,
and not a milk producer. She
should have more Of a variety.
You should feed one part cotton
seed meal, one part wheat bran
and one part beet pulp mixed. with
the cotton seed hulls. She should
have from 10 to 16 pounds of this
feed every day, with either a green
pasture or plenty of alfalfa hay
once a day. She should have plen-
~ Of salt kept before her at all
times and plenty of fresh water.
1t is most likely that her diges-
tive organs are not acting as they
should on account of the rich feed
you are giving her and her system
cannot stand it.
Give her one-half box of Black
Draught stock powders to which
has teen added one-half gallon or
boiling water, and repeat this in
one weeks time. This will cleanse
her system and give her an appe-
tite.
Gainesville, GAVIN you please
give me some advice on my ducks,
guineas and chickens? They seem
to be apparently well in the even
ing when feed them, but the next
morning find them setting down,
can't walk and usually the next
night they are dead. Will you please
give me some information about
them? 1 am a daily reader of the
poultry page of The Atlanta Jour
nal. o. ]. Z.
ANSWER
/ am confident your chickens
have what is known as limberneck
This is caused from eating some
poisonous matter Of some kind. The
only remedy for this is to remove
the chickens from it, or remove this
from the chickens The best way
to do this is to confine your chickens
all in a yard until the matter has
disappeared. Any dead or putrid
matter anywhere the little chick
ems can get it will cause ptomain
poison, which evidently is the trou-
BILE with your chickens. 1t is al
most useless to doctor them after
they get it. Conkey's Limberneck
cure will save those that are not too
far gone.
/ have a game hen that goes on
the nest every day and does not lay.
When you try to remove her from
the nest she will quarrel, and she
wants to sit l also have a Rhode
Island Red rooster that wrings and
twists his neck as If he was choked
at times.
1 have some eggs setting and am
afraid they will not hatch good on
account of eggs being settled VIII
settled eggs hatch? How long after
little chickens are Matched before
they should be fed and watered.
Any information on the above
will be highly appreciated.
J. L. BOOTH
ANSWER.
If the hen mentioned in your
letter continues to act as she does,
the best thing to do with her would
be to put her in the pot. 1t does
not pay to keep a hen that does not
lay The Rhode Island Red rooster
possibly has something in his craw
that does not pass and his effort
to swallow IL down makes him twist
his head However, sometimes there
are other causes for this. You
should make an examination of his
crop after he has been without food
for ten to twelve hours, and If IL is
full of coarse matter ii should be
cut open, the substance removed and
the crop sewed back up. If he is
not active and mate with the hens
properly, you should dispose of him
and get another male bird.
Eggs that have settled on one side
do not usually hatch. Eggs that
are kept any length of time should
be turned at least twice a week.