The Pulaskian., 1915-07-02
eAPEs-AN OLD scouRaE.

UST as sure as the Christmas that
 comes once year, just so surely do diseases arrive in poultry yards, no matter how much care is given 10 them.
 One of the commonest troubles is the gapes, disease which can be con- trolled. The little chicks may be seen sneezing and gaping and the older ones intake noise as they open their mouths. When the poultry is kept upon damp soil which is heavy, and when it is used year after year without be- ing turned over or planted to some crop, there will you find an epidemic of it. When the young chicks are al lowed to run out in the wet grass on a cool morning, the trouble is az 2rayated.
 Gapes are collection of small worms in the windpipe of the chicken, and che unfortunate fowl gapes for breath and sneezes in the attempt to dislodge the worms from the throat
 If your whole flock has the trouble, the best remedy is to put all the chicks suffering from it into a box and tie piece of cheesecloth over the box. Spread air-slaeked lime on this, then shake the box several times so that the lime will dust through onto the chicks.
 They will be forced to breathe the lime dust and this will paralyze the worms to such an extent that they will let go of their hold on the vic tim s throat The chick, being suffo cated, will then sneeze and cough them out. It may be necessary to repeat this operation several days later, but once usually suffices.
 These worms may also be removed from the throat of little ones by means of doubled and twisted loop of horse windpfpe and then be given a quick twist as you pull it out. We have tried this method, but do not think it as effective nor as pleasant as the former method.
 By all means, do not put the chickens back ill the worminfested yard, or you will have the same trouble again.
 Bermuda grass makes good hay when cut sufficiently early It's reputation has suffered somewhat by an inferior quality of overripe hay that has been put on the market. Two crops can ordinarily be cut each year. While the yields are small on poor land, rich, moist soil will produce several tons per acre year. With both pastures and meadows the sod should be plowed once every few years, on account of the tendency of this grass to become sod bound.
 To A1 1n ln nd is rather difficult matter Growing smother crops, such as eowpeas, soy beans, millet, and sorghum, has been advocated This method is successful only under very favorable conditions. Where the soil is productive enough to produce thick stand and vigorous growth of these crops, they may be depended upon practically to rid a l field of the grass in several years time Most farmers, however, will have to rely upon clean cultivation. This method may be followed either with or without a cultivated crop growing on the land. The best plan usually is to put the land to grass for a year or more, either as pasture or meadow. When the sod has become more or less root bound, it is comparatively easy to destroy. Plow shallow in midsummer just deep enough to get under the sod After that the land should be disked during the rest of the season at in tervals frequent enough to prevent top growth. By being thus kept at the sur face of the soil during the hat weath CT of summer the sod soon dries out and dies. The frequent disking, by keeping down the top or green growth einally starves out the rootstocks that were not turned by the blow. If the york is thoroughly done, all of the Bermuda will be dead by fall, unless 1t be very wet season. It is advis 9ble, however, to put in cultivated arnn the follnWino year to locate and