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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20
QUESTION.

Duluth, Ga.
have at present nine Notified
Anconas. VIII be four months old
about the 18th inst. They are
strong and healthy and in fine con-
dition, six pullets and three cock
erels. 1 allow them unlimited
range. My plans are to use two
rolls of forty-eight-inch netting for
my yard. This will give me yard
2Ox110 feet. using partition half
way. l want to keep three pullets
and one cockerel in each yard, or
would it do just as well to just
use one roll (150 feet wire 2Ox55
feet, and allow all TO run together?
My idea for yarding same: 1 have
other kinds of chickens but do not
care to let them mix. Would it be
advisable to build the yard at once
and place or separate the pullets
from cockerels?
Do the females begin laying any
earlier when the males are allowed
to run together, or not? / feed my
chickens three feeds each day.
mixture of my own moistened with
milk See they relish their meal
every time this way. At what age
do this breed begin laying? Will
appreciate same. j. G. G.
ANSWER.
II would be cheaper and better
for you to make just one yard for
the few fowls that you have. Keep
your six females with the best male
in this one yard. If you will get
yearling cock bird to mate with
these pullets you will get stronger
and better chickens 1t is not a
good idea to allow more than one
male in the pen at time. 1t makes
no difference about hens laying,
whether they are separated or kept
with the males. Usually Anconas
begin laying at from five to six
months old, sometimes earlier. They
are great layers and you will like
them
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20

1t is possible that the hen men
toned is string halted. has been in
jured in the leaders of her legs in
some way or it may be possible
that her feet are sore under the bot
tom and it hurts her when she puts
them down on the ground or puts
much weight OH them.
OF the three varieties of chickens
mentioned. Black Langshans. Barred
Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island
Reds, which is the best of the three.
this is a matter that you would have
to decide for yourself They are all
three good and each fulfill certain
requirements. For the use that you
desire them it would be best for
you to try all three varieties and see
which you like the best, as some
varieties that suit some people do
not suit others, and you might get
better results from one than the
others. If so, that should be the
variety that you should select.
There will be a department for
the children held in connection with
the show this winter, or that is the
intention now.
Usually when a hen goes on the
nest and stays two or three hours
and does not lay. sometimes there is
an obstruction that causes her not
to do so. You cannot tell positive
ly what is the cause. but II is
more than apt to be a change in the
system which has brought about
this trouble. If she continues this
for several weeks it would be best
to dispose of her. Occasionally
when hens are affected in this way
they never recover.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20
QUESTIONS ASKED AND ANSWERED.
QUESTION.

QUESTION.
Would thank you for some advice
as to treating sore eyes of Indian
Runner ducks. 1 had three or four
little ones to take this disease, later
an old one seems to be totally blind
in both eyes for a week. This dis
ease not understood here. Their eyes
run water and then close up with a
skim over them. Would appreciate
your advice Immediately, also will
this commercial chicken chowder do
to feed them?
c. F. DAVIS, Columbus, Ga.
ANSWER.
The trouble with your ducks is not
a disease but is caused by their sys-
TENS being upset from indigestion or
from catching cold and the best thing
to do is to give them a pool or a
pond in which to swim and feed most
ly on grain feeds. such as the ordi-
nary scratch feeds sold on the mar
ket and only once a day should they
have a soft mash. 1t would be we'll
to mix considerable charcoal with
their mash. Also keep plenty of oys-
ter shell and grit before them and
they should also have a shady place
where they can get out of the sun
during the middle of the day.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20
CFranklin. }

If I knew a miser who gave up every
kind of comfortable living. all the pleas
ure Of doing good to others. all the es-
TEEN OF his fellow citizens and the joys
of benevolent friendship for the sake
or accommodating wealth, poor man, said
l. you pay too much for your whistle.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20
QUESTION.

Germanton, n. c.
Can you tell me what ails my hens,
and please give me remedy? They
droop up and can hardly go. Their
combs do not turn pale. They seem
to lose the use of their wings and
legs and turn round and round. II
also effects their heads and they go
blind in one eye. They do not lose
their appetite.
Please reply through The Journal
at once and l will be greatly obliged.
1 allow my chickens to run at large
and go where they please. NJ. A.
ANSWER.
Your chickens are evidently getting
something to eat that does not agree
with them. or they are infested with
insects. 1 think most likely the lat
ter is the cause. If they are poor
you can rest assured that insects dice
or mites) have caused their weakened
condition. If they are fat and in
good condition II is most likely that
they have gotten some poisonous
matter OF some kind 70 eat. 1t would
be a good idea for you to dip every
one of your chickens in a solution of
Bee Dee Dip or Chio-Naptholeum
one part dip to fifty parts water, and
wash the Foost of your chicken house
with solution Of kerosene oil and
carbolic acid.
Then If they continue to die con-
fine them in a yard where they can
get only what you give them to eat
and see that they get nothing but
sound, wholesome food. Feed liber-
ally twice or three times per day.
They must be fat and I'm good health
If they hold out usually during the
next two months.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20

per acre.
QUESTION.
Kindly answer me. these few ques-
tions in your valuable paper:
We had dog and she gave birth to
10 pups and three days later the
mother dog died. The pups are all
well but would like to know how to
take good care of them. Would like
to know how many times to feed
them and what to feed them on. etc.
Is it very necessary to keep the pups
warm?
Trusting that you will insert this in
your paper and give me full informa
ton, 1 remain,
A. NJ. F., Atlanta, Ga.
ANSWER.
The little pups should be fed fresh
sweet milk direct from the COW, if
you can get ii, or goats milk would
be still better for them. You can Sc
cure a goat and milk her three times
a day and give it to the pups After
they get a little older, say. after three
or four weeks. boil pearl grits until
thoroughly done and mix with the
milk while they are boiling hot and
after it is cooled give to the pups
three times a day to eat.
After they are four weeks old they
should each have a small dose of
Glover's Vermifuge and when eight
weeks old this should be repeated.
II you will keep the vessels from
which they eat perfectly clean and
well summed and keep them in place
where they can keep reasonably cool
and dry during the hot summer
months you will possibly raise them,
but it requires close and careful at
tention to bring them through all
right Above all things, do not give
them any sour milk or feed them
from any vessels which have become
contaminated by sour milk. AS long
as their digestive organs are in good
fix you will have no trouble with
them. They should not be overfed
but have their feed regularly every
eight hours and i'm this way they are
not likely to overeat. 1t is much
harder to raise pups at this season
of the year than in the winter time.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20
HOW TO SELECT AND PREPARE
YOUR FOWLS FOR THE SHOWS

IRDS that you expect to show
TX during the next few months
IL should be selected from the
flock now and given a room or
space to themselves, both cock
birds and hens. These birds should
be kept in clean coops or rooms
in the shade and given the best of
feed and care. Ordinary scratch
feed or wheat fed twice a day, and
a soft mash feed with one tea
spoonful of faxseed meal added to
each chicken should be fed once a
day. In addition to this some
grain feed should be given every
day if possible. Chopped cabbage,
green turnips, collard leaves, let
tuce or alfalfa or something sim
liar should be given occasionally,
and once or twice a week raw on
ions chopped fine are also good.
Old birds that have a few old
feathers left in them that do not
drop out should be removed if they
are ripe and pull easy as these
feathers will be replaced by new
ones much quicker if the moult is
helped. A bird in good flesh and
with the proper aid will usually
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20
NEW ORLEANS coTTos

SPOT COTTON
Atlanta. nominal new. NE.
New YORK. quiet II S5-iOoc.
Liverpool. steady. 8 s2-f00l.
New Orleans, firm 11%c.
Galveston. steady, 1IAc.
savannah. steady, I1&c.
Norfolk, quiet. 11%c-
Baltlniore. quiet. n&c.
Wilmington. steady, ul2c-
Philadelphia steady. Il 10-100c.
Boston. quiet II S5-10oc.
Mobile. nominal.
Charlotte. steady. 1lAc.
Augusta. steady. 11Ec.
Houston. Quier 11Ac-
Memphis. steady. Use.
Little Rock, quiet, II 3-l6c.
Charleston. steady. 11Lc.
St Louis. firm .ll%c.
Louisville. firm, IKE
Macon, steady. Ike.
HAYWARD cLARKs COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS. sept I9--The weahter NAB
this morning shows that the storm and frost
predictions % yesterday were absolutely grouna-
less. Temperatures. although loEer IN, the
north Central belt are = b s degrees higher
% Okiahoma and northwest Texas. ranging from
s. % IS. No frost and no storm In the belt,
Generally fair In the western half, partly
cloudy IN the central states. cloudy In tie
Atlantic. general light showers in the central
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20
QUESTION.

ATLANTA, Ga.
Please tell me what is the matter
with my hen? When she goes to
run she looks like she is scared to
put her feet down. Which is the
best chicken. Black Lang shan,
Barred Plymouth Rock or Rhode
Island Red? Also. please tell me
if there is going to be a department
for children to show chickens this
year? What causes a hen to go
on the nest and don't lay? She stays
on sometimes two hours.
FAD NrU.G1, HAT
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20

be contaminated. This disease is
often mistaken for cholera. and if it
is neglected it will kill them by the
wholesale.
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QUESTION.

am writing you for a little
information about alfalfa. ! am
thinking Of seeding some next fall.
/ have a sandy loan soil with
yellow clay subsoil. Do you think
it will grow successfully on this
kind of soil? DO you think
should use a subsoil pillow on this
kind of land? Also what kind or
fertilizer anu when to put same
on ground? Also what depth TO
break land of this type of soil
for successful alfalfa, corn and
cotton?
I will thank you very much for
the information.
L. J. KNIGHT,
Rays Mill, Ga
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QUESTION.

Ellijay, Ga.-Can you tell me what
is the matter with my dog and what
to do for him? He has some kind of
a breaking out and his hair comes
of in spots. and he is continually
scratching and biting at himself. 1
thought it was mango and tried a
remedy which you gave in The
Journal last winter and thought for
a while / had cured him, but he
broke out again and l tried kerosene
oil and that checked it a while, but
nothing l have tried has cured him.
his hair looks dead and thin in
spots and when he runs and gets
hot it gets worse. Now, can you
tell me what it is and what will
cure him?
Thanking you in advance, am
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20
ANSWER.

You cannot successfully grow
alfalfa on freshly prepared
ground; il should be prepared sew
eral months ahead of time for SOW
ing by deep blowing, and peas
should be planted so as to shade
the grounl during the hot summer
months. Apply from one to five
tons of lime per acre at the time
of sowing peas and after WINS
are cut go over the land with At
cutaway harrow making a good
seed bed not over three or four
inches deep. The ground should
be inoculated either by using the
dirt from a field already growing
alfalfa or inoculate the seed with
farmogerm.
II - better - subaSA ell HRds,
either sandy or clay.
The best fertilizer for alfalfa is
500 pounds of acid phosphate, 500
pounds of bone meal and 100
pounds Of potash and at least so
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20
QUESTION.


Will you kindly tell me through The
Weekly Journal the principal facts
about selecting chickens for shows.
am young in the business and would
appreciate 1t very much. / want to
have a few Buff Orpingtons at the
Children's Fair, which is to be held
in our town in the fall.
Sparta, Ca ROBERT ALLEN.
ANSWER.
rhe best way to prepare your young
chickens for the show is to give them
plenty of good. wholesome food. Sep
arate the ones you wish to show and
feed with a liberal hand and keep
them out OF the sun. Young chickens
usually show better OF the range;
that is, if it is a good one. where
they have not been crowded for room
than if they are yarded and condi-
toned. Old birds, however, stand con-
finement better and can be conditioned
better when yarded.
Just before they are ready to send
to the show they should be cooped
and fed a small amount of raw meat
every day. BY doing this you can
get them tame.
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FOR SALE

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FOR SALE-Sixty-acre farm. best land n
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from station; $35 per acre. Box c, Fender, Ga.
Tiff county.
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Your dog evidently has a case OF
mango and the treatment given has
not been sufficient to cure him.
Sometimes in long-standing cases it
is hard to cure. especially if the dog
is fed much meat. but If you will
properly apply one pint of raw lin
seed oil to which has been added
two ounces of full strength carbolic
acid and keep the dog out of the
dirt for two or three days. two APP
plications of this if thoroughly
mixed and properly applied will
usually cure any case of mango.
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BY Associated Press.

VIEW YORK sept 14.-rbe cotton marker
oEeaed steady AZ an advance OF TO points IN
response 90 firm cables sud after easing OF
70 nearly the closing flEures % last night under
realizing. again nrmef up reports ot
sfeadier sTnt situation AMI during TIE middle or
che morning r1ied shout % 10 points net
higher. The early weather news indicated no
FIRST In tire belt last ri<hi AMI showed rislns
temperatures this morning with showers ~
-alns but tire presence - high barometer ann
low Temperatures in the Pacific northwest iea
e. continued aupreheusio1S - cold snap
Realizing checked Tho advance Rro1ut li-ht
Tor Dccprnher sud the market late ~ the tore
noul was rather irregular ~ a slight reaction
from tho best. Trading was less artive 81 mid-
day Enf H-ireS ruled strrut q points net
higher
IRE market essed off n a net loss - > 81 %
seints du-iuz tte cary iafternpnn IN rllnnors
that q shuthe-s autho-itv hat estimated tue
rEnn ~ f60Nn nnn hrteS amf scattering hqutda-
fion- later theSe rru,o~S were denied and prices
stendicd 3 - 4 roints from the lowest
NV vozR coTToG
nv rnTo-f.- -rrr ri4r rliir- ~rs--ss ~ 10
T~rharr- trsfav-
Tore stead~: uiiadIlnS. n Ss-iooe; quiet.
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WV ORLEANS cotton
nv Associated Prsss.1


Nrw ORLEANS. Sept. ta--Cotton futures
eneuri steady. unbalanced TO point down. com
rared with yesterdays close Gables were bet
ter than exvseeted but commission houses had
fairly large volume - selling orders 60 execute
IN the first car and the offerings weighed
against the market. Ire weather map was
callSi favorable. because q light showers In the
reatraI AMI eastern sections ~ the belt. Son
after the call prices were J - points under
yesterdays last prices ScaininC nnGs houEnt
On this snsa1 decline AMI the market took on
n risinE Tendency. AZ the end u the first halt
hour - husIress prices we're % points over
yesterdays close
Selling increased fNwauI the middle ~ the
morning ana frrm then the ~'9rket had an
Fasr undertook ~ was rrrulrrpsi that large
Snot Interests were supplying the hulk ~ the
contracts the ring had for ssle and that theF
srerr hastne their offerings On the heavy move
Enent % new ccstnu aud tie disposition OF farm
eFs n sell their cotton IS fast as they picked
~. TIha forecast ~ fair weather for The entirA
rattnn hole vs. considered favorable and brought
uut scattered selling firm nom traders ~
nom prices vere : 20 points under Wednes-
asy's last quotations.
NEW ORLEANS CoTIoS
49, ssTioUlnE were ths ruling rr-e~S n he
ew~~srr~ ra-~w-
Tore steaav. mfddlng I1&c: steady.
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per month; travel over the world Write
c. r. Ludwig. 1851 Searritt Bldg, Kansas
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nIrESTION

/ write you Tor some information
in reference to chickens.
Can you tell me name of disease
and treatment for chickens that
have, 1 call, limberneck? They are
affected as follows: They will sit
on roost with heads hanging down
and are unable to raise it. When
the disease is further advanced
they lay fiat down with heads
stretched or with it under them.
Some die In a few hours, while
some linger as long as AZ hours.
| enclose stamp for reply and any
information you can give me will
be much appreciated.
JOHN G.. BROWN,
GroYania. Ga
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ANSWER.


have had several articles in the
daily, also The Weekly Journal,
with reference TO limberneck, cause
and treatment This is caused by
the fowls eating putrid matter from
dead carcasses and is nothing more
nor less than ptomaine poison. If
the chickens are treated immediate
ly, the we'll as we'll as the sick
ones. the poison can be counter
acted by giving a teaspoonful of
turpentine in a pint of corn meal,
given once a day will save many.
or Conkey's Limberneck Cure will
save most OF them.
1t is best to take every chicken
off the range and confine them in
yards and houses where they can
only get pure, wholesome food and
physic the entire lock out thor
oughiy with EPSON salts in the soft
mash and some good liver medicine.
Often the entire flock can be saved
by doing this, but IL allowed their
liberty to go out and get more OF
this poisonous matter many of them
will die that you will not know
about, and by this means others will
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20

TOBACCO HABIT CURED OR NO COST
HARMLESS home treatment Of roots and herbs.
Sure pleasant permanent, send your name
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pounds of seed should be planted
per acre.
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