The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-05-29
Practical Problems &c.

prove very satisfactory. Not produc-
tive enough, and was eaten by weevils
IN a short time after being gathered.
| have tried upland rice on a piece
Of ground that had been used in early
! part of season for vegetables. The
! rice was success, yielded heavily
and produced good feed, both for
chickens and the horse. Shall try
rice again. "a. -
j Has any one made a success in
east or west Florida with sunfower
seed? They did not fill we'll with me-
Who knows about chicken corn? Is
1t the same as yellow branching sor-
ghum? - I saw it in the Tallahassee
country, it seems native to that sec
ton. 1t is productive and good for
poultry
Are velvet beans good for poultry,
and if SO, how used? Cow peas, of
course, can be raised here, but they
are more valuable than wheat.
Why are the grown chickens more
free Cor entirely exempt), from the
j1gger feas, than small chickens?
Do dry grits swell in the crops of
young chickens and injure them? If
SO, why does not dry wheat do the
same with larger chickens?
Let's swap ideas.
w. H. Haskell.
DeLand, Fla
IL AnsWer:-The writer has answered
his own question about raising feed.
IF he finds that rice; does we'll and
yields a good crop, he should by all
means, continue to grow it, it is ex-
cellent feed for poultry. We have
not been able to grow any feed for
several years, but when we did, we
found i,Kaffir corn a1good crop 1t
yielded we'll and was ideal food If
dried quickly and then packed into
barrels and headed up tightly with
little bl-sulphide Of carbon put in on
top, the Weevils will not trougle it.
We have never. tried the sunfower
seed in this state. Can anyone else
sansWer7 the question?
Sorghum vulgare is commonly
known as chicken corn. 1t has be-
come naturalized in some parts of
the South to the extent that it has
become a very troublesome weed.
Yet it is valuable for forage, yielding
very heavy crops of green forage,
which if properly cured makes excel
lent hay. Whether this is the species
which is known, locally, as yellow
branching sorghum Or not we do not
know. It would no doubt furnish
lot of chicken feed, but if it so easily
becomes weed, we should hesitate
about planting it.
Velvet beans are recommended for
all kinds of stock, including poultry,
when ground into meal, but we should
doubt the advisability of feeding them
to chickens whole, even if they would
eat them. Any way they are higher
priced than COW peas at the present
time.
Is it fact that grown chickens are
more free from jigger feas than little
chicks? We have never been serious
sly troubled with them until this sea-
& son, and nov. It is owing to the long
s drouth. which has allowed them to
multiply, because there has not been
rain enough. to drown them On the
range where our. young chicks go.
there. are no J1ggers, but in and
I. ait ol1nd the poultry houses they are
very abundant this year Greasing
the heads with common axle grease is
the best remedy which we have found
5 That lat iii Ills al: al t covers and thins
We have always heard that dry
Z @gritss was. bad for. chicks, but have
never experimeflted with it,. Like MIR.
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