Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-18
Some Answers to Inouirers

Some Answers to Inquirers
Dear Mrs. Thomas: Will you
please tell me through The Journal
what will kill hawks, for they are
eating up my chickens. Please an
swer as soon as you can.
A JOURNAL SUBSCRIBER.
Mix a pint of meal and one heap
ing teaspoonful of powdered nuX
| vomica and make a stiff dough with
water, feed just as much as they
will eat and then put any that is
left where the older chicks can get
it. Do not leave it around to sour
nor for the dogs to get it, for it is
sure death to any creature born Oh
| Matched with it's eyes shut. Feed just
| before you expect the hawk if you
/ can, or every day for three days
| then miss a day or SO. l never have
| had to feed more than twice, if the
| hawk gets a chicken there is nc
need to feed again till you see an
| other hawk. NuX VOmica is poison
| but fine tonic for man and, there
! fore, the eggs and poultry can be
| eaten right along.
[ would have sent q personal re
| ply if the writer had signed a rea
name.
Dear Mrs. Thomas: I read Oul
Household and enjoy your talks very
much, especially on little chicks.
sure do have bad luck with mine
! They droop and die in spite of al
can do. I have some pure game
and also some mixed 1 have matched
| of two broods with the incubator
and my first ones are doing nicely
| but my last ones are dying every
day. I have fed them on butter
| milk and egg bread and water They
are two weeks old now, and 1 think
they have the white diarrhoea.
keep their place cleaned and disin
| fected. I wish you would tel
| through your column sometimes
why little growing chicks look rag
! ged when there are no insects or
! them. Is it lack of proper feed OF
what?
Yours truly,
MRS. J. H.
To the lady losing her incubator
| chicks I could suggest that her
chicks may have been chilled after
hot night. Or they may have
been fed too soon after Matching.
If the incubator heat or even a hen
sits off the eggs and they get too
cold time or two it lessons vitality.
The ragged appearance is most
probably worms. Put a handful of
cOperaS in a gallon of water and let
them have a cup of that water mixed
with a cup of clean water, and no
other for a day, and your chickens
will show improvement. I mix a
pound of coperas in a two-gaIlon
stone jar, and pour it full of water,
Their once a week I take a cup of
that water and mix with a bucket
of fresh water and let all the poul-
try drink it. If you wash your ves-
sells after they go to roost, fill with
this solution, they will go right there
as soon as they get off the roost,
and it does them more good. Re-
member you must not put this in
metal.
Dear Mrs. Thomas: I still have
your receipt for canning snap beans
printed in The Journal last June,
1921. Will you please tell US if the
jars should be upside down or not?
beans and green shelled peas in the
Journal soon as possible.
Respectfully,
MRS. BESSIE.
South Carolina.
To can lima beans or peas one
must be careful not to split the
peas or beans; shell carefully, blanch
seven minutes, ten if a little old,
dip quickly in cold water. Fill the
jars, add teaspoonfuI of salt, pour
in the hot water, partly seal by CIV
ing a turn or two, and process two
hours the first day and one hour