The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-06

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| lecture on dairy problems. Among 9TH
er matters he urged that dairymen con-
tinue their opposition to oleomargarine
Prof. G. NJ Conner OF Florida dis
| cussed the siio. His preference is foi
| the st&ve silo,l In the construction o.
which he stated that the farmer, wheth-
| or not can erect such silo witnou'
skilisd help. He prefers cypress lum-
Der. II pine must be used II snouid pe
+, free from knots along the edge OF the
slaves, and should be run through
sizing machine to make al slaves OF
| Uniform width. In the discussion sew
eral favored the use Of 40-penny nails
| to hold each stave against its neighbor
and to prevent the falling Of the sfio or
the Tightening OF the iron bands In dry
weather. II the slaves are six inches
wide these nails are sunk In holes about
| two inches deep. II four-fnch slaves
are used 1t will not be necessary thus
| to sink the nails.
| One dairyman reported that the most
! satisfactory silo he had found was a
stavs silo in which the slaves had half
inch tongues and grooves.
| Messrs Webster and Rawl of the U. 8.
Department of Agriculture spoke on the
management and feeding of cattle and
on the markets for butter, which they
asserted offer room for great increase
In the production OF Southern butter.
They had ascertained that the usual
amount Of butter shipped from the
North into Macon, Ga. alone was about
one car load per month, or as much
as would be yielded by about 1900 cows.
They made the remarkable statement
that the larger part of the milk and
cream sold in the South Is condensed
milk and cream.
Prof A. NJ. Soule, Director OF the
Virginia Experiment Station spoke en-
Enthusiastically of the opportunities in
the South for the economical production
OF beef and pork. ]. F. d.
Ridding q Farm OF Ticks.
A recent bulletin by Prof. H.. A..
Morgan, published simultaneously by
the Louisiana and the Tennessee Elk
pertinent Stations makes an important
tfcal methods of Kidding farms or pas
lures OF the Southern cattle tick. The
following statements are taken from
this bulletin.
The large female tick drops from the
animal lays eggs which in twenty to
thirty days hatch and crawl up on the
grass or. bushes ready to attach them
selves to passing cattle. These young
ticks may remain hungry but alive
while thus waiting, for two months in
summer and more than six months In
bearing on the time during which cat
tie must be kept from a pasture II we
would starve out the ticks there. Inn
portant likewise Is the time elapsing
between the date at which the tiny
ticks attach themselves to the animal
and the time when the engorged fe-
male drops off. This in summer ranges
from nineteen to thirty days, while in
late fall and winter 1t ranges from
VIZ n " al srh . ~
Prof. Morgan proposes that pastures
be so divided that cattle, horses and
mules be excluded from pastures to be
cleaned from June until late fall. Then
not earlier than the middle of Novem-
Der these animals may be placed in a
corn or cotton field, which is natural
fy free from ticks. and kept there
thirty to forty days or long enough
for all ticks to drop and not long
enough for ticks to both drop and
hatch out, In January or February the
animals should be placed in the first
enclosure, the one from which they
were removed the previous June. This
plan requires three enclosures, one to
carry cattle from June 1 until late
fall. second to carry cattle from fall
until about June / of the next year. A
third in which the cattle are kept du-
ring winter, and this would ordinarily
be a stalk field. Then after Christmas
the cattle may be carried to enclosure
No. 1, on which the previous summer
the ticks have been starved, and at any
time after June /, they may be admit
ted to pasture No. 2. previously freed
by winter starvation Of ticks.
The preceding method requiring
three divisions of the pasture seems to
be the preferred one but a feed lot
method may be used instead as follows
A lot which may be bare is surrounded
with a double fence with eight or ten
feet between the two lines of fence. In
this lot No. / the cattle are fed for
twenty days. beginning about June /.
Then they are transferred to similar
lot with double fence and fed there for
fifteen or twenty days longer. BY this
time every tick will have dropped and
the cattle may then be placed upon
such field or pasture as may be tick
free and available In order that the
third area to which the cattle are car
ried from the feed lot should be free
Of ticks 1t Is necessary that cattle
should be excluded from 1t from fall
until about the following June. by
this method any farm may be cleaned
ceeding four months" In case a tick
free pasture Is not available for use
after the cattle are removed from the
second feed lot, they should be car
ried to an, area of cultivated land
which is usually free from ticks about
mid summer. after the animals are
the two feed lots should be
Immediately plowed and thoroughly
cultivated and their edges completely
sprayed with crude petroleum. zeno-
leum, or other solutions destructive to
tick life.
While the above method of freeing
farms from ticks Is to be highly COM
mended. especially for those in the
part of the Texas fever belt
where 1t is desirable to move the gov
eminent quarantine line southwark, yet
farmers in the central part of tho
belt would do well to bear
in mind that the absolute eradication |
of the tick on single farms may cause |
more loss than profit for after several |
years of freedom from ticks, Southern |
cattle become more susceptible to tick |
fever in case ticks from outside are |
introduced on the farm |
once freed of them.
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Fatteping steers.
We note that an elaborate feeding |