Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-01

! in place with lath. Carbon bisulphid
! is then placed in dishes we'll dis
| tributed about the storage house
| The fumes are heavier than air and
| sink to the floor, reaching all parts
! of the stored grain. proper precau-,
tions should be taken because of the
| extremely poisonous nature and COM
| bustibility of the fumes.) The fumi-
| gated corn is not injured, either for
| seed or feed.
DIGESTIVE TROUBLES IN YOUNG
PIGS
C. W. H., Milledgeville, Ga. writes:
! | have sow with litter of six healthy
| looking pigs about a week old, but they -
tremble and shake until they fall. The
! is real fat and is fed on kitchen
Stops, milk and corn. Please advise
the cause of the trouble, and if there
is anything can do to cure 1t.
Your hogs are evidently suffering
| for some form of indigestion, prob
ably brought on by the character OF
the food you are feeding the dam.
| The symptoms you describe indi-
cate evidences of the disease tech
nically known as thumps. This
and is generally associated with
some disturbance of the digestive
| system. This trouble is sometimes
! due to constipation and a lack of
exercise. Overlooking may be
cause of this trouble, or too fire.
quent feedings.
The best thing to do is to give
the SOW a purgative to thoroughly
| cleanse the alimentary tract. Then
feed on a spare diet of laxative,
nutritious food given in relatively
small amounts for a day or two.
Two teaspoonfuls. to two table
| spoonfuls of Glauber or EPSON
salts, or one to four tablespoonfuls
! Of castor oil will be good purga-
| tives to use with the SOW, A small
| dose of castor oil given to the young
pigs will no doubt ,be beneficial.
| We suggest that you refrain from
using kitchen Stops for some time
Evidently they contain soap pow
| ders or other deleterious materials.
| Possibly you have been allowing
broken glass or I've used for cleans
| ing to find its way into the Stops.
| The statement that your SOW is
very fat indicates that you are
feeding a one-sided ration. An ami
be fed on foods rather rich in nitro
gen but not fattening in nature. We
advise that you cut corn out of the
ration, altogether and use a rel
atively thin slop of shorts. To each
! 100 pounds of shorts may be added
! Of a standard brand, such as that
manufactured and put out by any of
the large packing houses. 1t is
desirable, if possible, that you fee, feed
| your sow some skim milk This
! may be used to reduce the shorts to
thin slop. 1t is better if the milk
is sweet, but there is no serious OBJ
f! lection to using it if it is sour.
BY pursuing the method of. prac-
| tice we have suggested for a rea-
you will overcome the difficulties
Won now eXn6rl6nClng.
OPERATING A oHURN BY DOG
E. S., Sparta, Ga, writes: have
four good-sized collie dogs and wish TO
know if L could rig UP some kind of
a power tread mill that would work one
or more dogs and develop power to run
a barrel churn of ten-galon capacity.N
churning from two to six gallons of
this worked successfully? Could you
furnish plans for such mill or know
where one could be bought? Is it too
late to plant velvet beans in corn to
mature before frost?
There is no reason why you should
not fix up a treadmill and operate a
| churn by dog power in the manner
j size and class you mention should be
| able to furnish all. the power neces-
sary to run ten-gallon chu1'n with
! out overtaxfng their energy. In fact.
| Inc exercise WouIQ just De SuHIcIetI
| TO keep thAna in good condition. We
| have often. seen treadmills of the
| character you describe used in the
manner Indicated.
We are not in position to furnish
| you with plans or diagrams for
| building such machine. but any
/ large dairy house should be able, to
, furnish you with an estimate as to
the cost of such an equipment and
, either secure what you need for you
j or advise you where the same can be
purchased. We suggest that you
! communicate with concerns handling
goods of this character, and we feel
you desire. You understand of
] course, that. war conditions have
! changed price lists SO that all the
! old ones in hand are now out of date.
i We believe you would secure better
information to apply directly to con-
Germs Of the character we have men
! TONED than If we undertook to fur
! nish the same in a letter of this char
! acter.
! 1t is rather late to plant velvet
beans in your section Of the state. II
! you could secure some of the Georgia
variety which is said to mature in
| 100 days and you could plant them
| Immediately, it would probably pay
| you to undertake the labor and ex-
| pense involved. IF we have a rea-
| Sonably late season and the beans
| do fairly well, they will make a large
growth and a fair yield of grain be-
| tween now and October IS. o. .'.
A Serious Disease Of Young Cotton
7. P. s., Leverett, Ga. writes l
sending you a sample of my cotton
| that is dying. Last year 1 had to plant
twice from this same cause. 1t Games
up all right but dies after it is chopped
out. l rotate my crops. If there is
no remedy will have to quit cotton.
| Would appreciate your advice in the
matter.
The samples of cotton sent to US
were so badly dried up when re-
ceived az to make definite recogni-
ton of the trouble about which you
write rather difficult. We are dis
| posed to think, however this cot
| ton has been attacked by what is
known as anthracnose. The fungus
that produces this trouble is widely
distributed. Injury is dependent to
some extent upon local conditions.
| The. weather recently has been ia.
vorable to the development of this
disease. While the bolls are most
frequently attacked, the seedlings are
also often infested and injuries to
stem and leaf are not uncommon.
Some varieties of cotton are much
more subject to anthracnose than
others. Among the most resistant
"tra inS We have tested here at the