The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-08-15
average of the plant food of ordinary

average of the plant food of ordinary
! pea meal.
QUESTION -Whaf is the difference
between fresh anG well rotted manure?
l mean how much more available is the |
latter?
ANSWER S.-Thoroughly decomposed
stable manure is about 90 per cent more
| soluble tEan fresh manure-the ammo
MIA and phosphoric acid of the former
being especially available. Another
advantage is that in the process Of de-
composition and. fermentation many
weed seeds, which otherwise would
prove harmful. are destroyed.
QUESTION 9.-What do you think of
cottonseed meal as food for cows?
ANSWER Eve have used cottonseed
meal combined with hulls and other
feed stuffs with the greatest advant-
age.
FROM bulletin of the Tennessee ex-
pertinent station. we find that cotton
seed meal is the most valuable of. all
the so'called waste products used as
feed stuffs. 1t can be safely fed for
long periods as much as five pounds per
day per 1000 pounds live weight, in the
ration for cows giving milk AS the
COW approaches the time for calving,
the proportion of cottonseed meal should
not exceed three pounds daily.
We do not think it advisable to feed
more than five pounds of cottonseed
meal daily to milch cows. For butter
making it is not advisable to exceed
three pounds daily. Many years Of
close observation elsewhere, as we'll as
the results of recent experiments, in.
duce the writer to believe that it is not
safe to feed cottonseed meal as the sole
addition to the daily allowance of coarse
folders, particularly during the three
months preceding and the month after
calving.
Cottonseed meal and cottonseed hulls
should be far more extensively used as
cattle food. These products of the cot
ton fields of the south will enable the
farmers to maintain or to restore the
fertility OF their lands at the least cost
of manures. BY their proper use it is
easy to obtain the highest economic
value of the coarse folders which are
too often suffered to 60 entirely to
waste, or if used at all scarcely pay for
the labor of hauling them.
The following are safe rations for O
, dairy cow of 1000 pounds live weight,
and are made up IN great part of cot.
tonseed products:
l. Fifteen pounds cottonseed hulls
, five pounds of cottonseed meal, and six
) pounds corn meal.
a 2. Fifteen pounds cottonseed hulls
-four pounds of cottonseed meal, five
T pounds wheat bran, two pounds Of corr
meal
> 3. Fifteen pounds cottonseed, eigh
| pounds clover hay, five pounds cotton
D seed meal. two pounds corn meal.
t T. Fifteen pounds cottonseed hulls
/ eight pounds corn fodder, three pound
! | cottonseed meal, three pounds whea
] bran
t 8. Fifteen pounds cottonseed hulls
5 eight pounds corn tops, five pounds cot
Z tonseed meal
t g. Fifteen pounds cottonseed hulls
l six pounds clover hay, ten pounds O
2 corn and oats, equal weights of each
I mixed and ground together
Q QUESTION 10.-z have a Young mul
q s years old that was until three week
ago. IL "a thrifty condition. At tina
time her appetite began to fail and sh,
4 seemed to be stiff all over She woulc
Q raise her head like she was choking
At present she is not SO stiff, but unable
to swallow and is swollen under the
throat and what she eats comes bach
4 through her nostrils; it also runs q lit
tie Mucous, yellowish and inclined Il
be Watery. The mule has been with 6
horse that had something like distim
per and the horse died from the dis
: ease, and not knowing the symptoms OF
4 | CHAMBERS decided to write you, so please
give me symptoms of CHAMBERS, and il
this is not CHAMBERS any information as
to what it is
ANSWER 10-From the description Of
1 said mule think it is a case Of dis
temper, caused from being in contact
: with other stock affected likewise. be.
ing due to germ and contagious. The
swelling under the thro at will termi.
nate into an abscess.
The treatment is poultice the swell.
ing and when soft use the knife, open
up thoroughly and in few days the
mule will be all right.
The stiffness is only a symptom of
the disease.
1t might possibly be lockjaw, but /
think not
t Respectfully,
9 CARNEs & CARNEs, V. s.,
: Per. H. G. CARNEs, V. S.
FERTILIZERS FOR RYE, TURNIPs AND OATS.
RYE.