The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-20
Spring Forage and Green Food for
Winter.

Winter is approaching. The chief
question that should now concern the
farmer is the one of having plenty of food
for his stock during the winter To made
quately feed stock is nothing short of a
crime How is it possible for farmer Of
proper feeling to sit by his comforta BILE
1reslde during the bleak nights of winter
and reflect that his stock is shivering
with cold. as the result of insuu cient food?
Cruelty to dumb animals entails a curse
upon whoever is responsible for it, and it
may be that many farmers have failed to
meet with success Just because of such
cruelty, not always willful, but arising in
most instances from heedlessness-
thoughtlessness.
A farmer ought not to keep more stock
than he can properly take care of, and
there are very few farmers in the south
WHO have any excuse for not having an
abundance of stock food both dry and
green, all the year around. South of the
So Of latitude there is not month in the
year that something or other can not be
sown for the purpose OF stock food. OF
course, there are two months when it is
ieast advisable to sow anything of the
KIND, but, IL is true, that where those
crops that should be started in October
ana November are neglected. il is posi-
ole TO start them oftentimes in December
ana January. The farmer who keeps up
with his work, and starts his different
forage crops at the proper time will have
no need to take the risk of sowings in
december or January, for there is always
some risk involved in sowing even our
hardest plants in those two months.
where crops are wanted for winter
graHng or for furnishing the earliest hay
ID the spring the seeds should be sown
elJher IN September or October, never
sowing any of the small grain or clovers
ldter than this unless forced TO do so by
'lTGumstances beyond control.
ne reason why so many farmers in
NlIudle Georgia have discarded the sow
Tug OF fall grain, arises from the fact that
biot number of years they fell into the
T Sdu haolt of postponing sowing until
HuFem Der, and even until late in Decem-
Ier' AS the plants could take very little
Htoiu upon the soil before the January
neeles occurred, frequent failures re
SllIeu, and this has caused widespread
satisfaction with the oat crop es-
Now this is a crop that ought not to be
SSeslected by any southern farmer who
r ras proper regard for the economies in
ca IN raising his necessary stock food
a. farmer will persist in neglecting
o one CioVers that are so well adapted to
I1I cilmate and soils he should not neg
NY IVY Ihat desirable combination and rota-
t1a. peas and oats. The small farmer
s .5V sGws ten acres in oats in October
cu ua lcliows the oats as soon as they are
MY on 10 May or early June with peas,
rrrAlng the peas and turning under the
, ,lues IN September or October and again
er. ng oats and keeping this up for sew
.s "a. y ears. will see his ten acres improve
4 Ill., rJlllty and at the same time furnish
A thu, Win an the food for his pillow stock
'Iat he will need.
Inn, avs are cheaper stock food than corn,
IL Most farmers seem 10 think that corn
anal only suitable food for work stock
uogs. The best daily ration that can
or f,Seu In the south is a mixture Of three
fGearts Of sound, clean oats. along with
even 70 twenty pounds Of good hay. Let
w one'horse farmer this fall SOW ten