The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-31
COTTON SEED MEAL AND HULLS
FOR COWS.

COTTON SEED N lL@Aif AM Ii oA1i'N'
FOR COWS.
w. ?. Padgett. Johnston, S. CT write
for some information about my mug
COWS My milking cows are somewhat
poor COWS ! feed my cows on cotton
seed meal and hulls and Craze them IN Il
good pasture. Please write me the res
son they do rot fatten
Answer-You do not give sufficient in
formation about your COWS to enable me
to say why they do not fatten. If you
will read over your letter (printed just
rs written you will see that the only
facts you give are % They are some
what poor cows" (0 You feed them on
cotton seed meal and nuns ana graz
them on a sood pasture. and you asN
me why they do not fatten? am
Obliged to say that I do not know. POS
sihly it Is because they do not get ehoush
food Maybe they are infested with cat
tie ticks You do not give encaSh iacts
on which to base an opinion
CLEARING UP LAND IN SUMMER
To II. Y. Timer. Getsinger. 5. Cit
will not hurt the soil of the "old saphns
field TO cut The sapngs now on RAINY
DAVIS or whenever | can get the chance
The idea is without any reasonaD Die Iouh-
dation and is generally cherished oy
those who believe in the moon me
question has been answered many 'liheS.
Possibly the very men VINO DeleVe II
harmful to clear up land In the summer
lime are guilty of the rank inconsistency
of burning off new gtouhu' NdFS9
ana trash, brush, etc.
JOHNSON GRASS SEED IN MANURE.
John A. Ialsell, Warsaw. Ala.-Nll
Won please tell me the best way 20 get
ria Of NV Johnson grass seed that is
1nixod mn with my stable and lot manure
caused by cutting and feeding a lot OF
Johnson grass that had gone to seed In
fact. one gets more or less maluicu :eeu
in his Johnson grass every Yeai. li
would 1t do to put manure III pen, 80
N. . loads manure to one or SACKED
ashes and let it stay in pen untll II Is
tborouQhly rotten. If you can recon-
r,c,,d a better plan. would be glad you
do so IF ] put the manure up III pen
WITH ashes in November or beceiiiper
would it be rotten enough - I.us ~ y"
1ond the middle of March? Let me ne
frn,7 Won through Constitution to which
have been a subscriber about twenty
years.
Answer am not prepared from actual
experience to say whether the heating OF
the manure in heap would generate
enough heat to destroy the terminating
principle in the seeds Of johnson grass
or no I know that such temperature may
be high enough to kill some other SEEDS
II the plan YOU propose will not efeet
YOUR object | do not know what 10 ad-
wise, unless it be to scatter the manure
in the drill and bed on it for cotton and
rely on clean. rapid culture to kill the
young grass before It shall become well
set If any one can give a plan | Will
gladly publish the SANG.
JOHNSON GRASS IN WYOMING.
Roland Z. Burbank. Douglas. WyoI
have a ranch on dry creek on which l
cut about 20 tons of hay and cut over
40 acres TO get that, Most of the hay is
full of fox tail. which cannot be fed to
horses. Do you think Johnson grass
would grow here? 1t is about feet to
water? Would it kill the fox tail? When
would be the best time to SOW 1t in this
climate? We usually have our last frost
the middle OF May and the first one in the
fall. ABOUT october l. You will obige me
greatly by answering these questions In
The Constitution
Answer am not prepared to say
whether Johnson grass would succeed in
your climate. There's nothing like try
Ing however | am quite sure that 1t
would not coed without plenty of wa
ter If it will grow freely | have no
doubt it would kill out the foxtail Ii
the after IS what have always known as
'foxtan (setaria glauca an annual
grass there should be no particular diff
ficulty in getting rid of it by simply now
ing it before the seeds mature
If You can control irrgating water it
would be well for YOU to try alfalfa (lu-
cerne). which has succeeded SO well in
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