Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-20

writing one and il isn't so easy.
These beautiful autumn days make me
so happy. l love to see the men gath
ering their crops, they also seem so
cheerful. Our cotton being a &C Jd price.
This is the first year I have had the
pleasure of living on the ia I'm since
was a wee girl. L prefer farm life
rather than city life
|. In reading a letter from one of the
members that was asking how to keep
beans. ] have not had any trouble in
getting them to keep Just prepare them
as if you were going to cook them
for dinner, then put them on in cold
water. let them boil two hours. adding
two-thirds cup Of salt to every half gall
Ion of beans. Then seal alright and
keep in a dark place. Thus canned they
will keep.
How many of the readers enjoy read
ing, crocheting and tatting? certainly
do, for which l spend much of my time
as there is not much society in the
country. But. listen, 1 am not knocking
country people at all for 1 love them.
We live too far for afternoon calls, and
then is when do my crocheting.
I am "daddie's" cook and have been
ever since was twelve years OF age and
that has not been a dozen years ago.
I hope this letter won't get on the
'l -'. MOLLIE SUNSHINE.
ATTENTION! CHICKEN RAIsERs.
Dear Mrs. Thomas:
The other day / saw the following
statement in some paper;
There has never been any reliable
remedy. or. cure, for chicken cholera
found" . ..... ..
Let me tell you an experience of my
mothers, of which L was an observer.
She had upon her yards fully 800 chick
ems, young and, old Some highly priced
and very costly fowls. They began to
die. They died in piles; they died by
dozens. They even would drop from
their perches at night dead,
She was out of heart and sick with
the handling of dead and ailing birds.
An aged doctor stopped there for water.
He saw the calamity which had befal-
len her flock and told her to get fluid
extract of bella donna deadly night
shaded and to place CD two tablespoon
fuls to each ten quarts of water and
give them no other water to drink. They
apparently did not notice the medicine
in the water and drank eagerly of it.
Not another fowl that was able to drink
it died, and there were no new cases.
After three days there was not really
all were seemingly well. Since hen 1
have told a number of people who had
cholera sick chickens and they said 1T
cured like magic.
If you have ailing chickens keep all
drinking water clean, cool and medicated
for two weeks. If you have no new
cases, then give every three days till
you are quite sure all are we'll 1 think,
in most cases, If two weeks have passed
l.
infection, You have little to fear. OF
course you have burned or buried deep
ly all dead birds and burned all litter
and droppings which might be germ
laden.
" 1 hope this will aid some one in
trouble.
Here in south Florida, we have chick
en- fleas. also called sand fleas, stick
ing fleas. ETC., in countless numbers. In
late winter and early spring they APP
pear as mum berless as the grains of
sand. I've seen all the rules of SANTA
ton fail to Gust them. They come to
stay. Now smile broadly and listen.
Feed your hens a tablespoonful of pull
verified nuX vomica for every twenty-five
hens in a wet mash every three days.
Not a flea will stay on them. I've
seen hens that had had on caps of fleas
shed them until their heads would be
as bare as vultures. l have never
found any vermin upon chicken fed
with nux vomica. An old lady living
upon the edge of st. Johns river swamp
fed her hens and chicks nuX vomica to
Kill hawks. She noticed that they lost
their fleas and for some time she didn't
connect the two. Then she tried it
again and said the ones she didn't feed
were full of fleas and the dosed birds
had none. Give it a test when flea time
comes. If il proves a certain remedy
to keep fleas from poultry it will remove
one of Florida's greatest drawbacks to
poultry raising.
With good wishes to all poultry rails
ers large and small, 1 am,
Yours very respectfully, Fl
.--.-. MRS. MARY.
Fort Meade. Fla, Route p
Information Wanted.
Please tell us through the Journal
how to use yellow root for pellagra?