The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
cattle could be successfully fed

cattle could be successfully fed in Alabama.
 If you feed cattle in the winter time; you can not expect fertilixei value as the profit The food price i' too high.
 "The way that we made money ir beef at the experiment station was tc feed them on grass in the summer and also on cotton seed products.
 Last summer we had three lots oi cattle in the station In Sumter County One we fed on pasture alone. The sec ond we fed on pasture and cotton seed cake; the third. on pasture and caddc cake. As a result, the second lo' showed a clear profit of $8 per steer over steers that are pasture-fed. The third lot, fed on caddo-cake, did no, turn out as valuable"
 State Agriculture Commissioner WI kinson talked of "The Negro In Live Stock Farming" In disclosing the shiftlessness and carelessness of the negro in handling stock, attributed the blame more to the white man who had failed to teach the negro right, than to the negro himself.
 Talks of Cholera.
 Prof. Jesse M. Jones, the Vice-Pres- ident of the Association. of Montgom- cry County. discussed The Symptoms and Diagnosis of Hog Cholera"
 There was an outbreak of hog cholera during the early part of thls winter and it Is my purpose to de- scribe some observations of the symp- toms of the disease and the diagnosis during the outbreak he said. "A history of the herd and the source of the infection will help to better un- derstand the conditions of the out break.
 ''on November 1. 1908, there were in the herd two boars seven and one-half years of age; four eight months old gifts, three sows without pigs, and seven sows with ffty-four pigs suck ling, one month old or two months old, and just weaned; also six pigs four months old The sows recently haH- ing suckled or then sucking pigs were In isolated houses and pens.
 "All had access to alfalfa pasture, were given deep well water to drink and were fed corn and peanuts. The sixty smallest pigs and the sows suck ling pigs had skim-milk. All hogs had been sprayed with black oil to keep down lice. All were very ~ thrifty. growing or doing well and in every way healthy.
 Attending the State Fair held in Montgomery, october. 1908, were sev- eral herds of pure blood hogs from va rious parts of the State and other States. At least one of these herds had made the circuit in, the Vest Sew eral of the herds showing in MontS gomery showed in Birmingham. This herd from the Western circuit had a SOW to die in Birmingham under suspi- cious circumstances. At Montgomery another SOW of the same herd was sick and had diarrhoea. boar. of another herd showing at Birmingham was sick In Montgomery. A State Fair official. so we were informed. was supposed to have cured the SOW. That remains to be found out, however
 At the fair. MT. Watt, of Greenville, Ala, showed Berk shire hogs from healthy herd Of these MT. Henry Padgett. near Montgomery, bought two gilts and one boar. On getting these out of their crate at home, two did not act lively, but stiff and dull. One was lame.
 These three were fed milk. corn and wheat middlings on pasture. In short time they began to have diar- rohea which every one attributed to excessive feed on milk and middling. In two weeks one gilt and the boar died. Since then twenty pigs, two to four months old, have died in the herd. Several others showing hogs at the Fair or buying hogs shown there have lost them or others in their herd.
 Tn a few days after the gilts were sick the little pigs were attack ed. Next all the boars and sows. The older they were the longer they went before being sick and in most cases longer withstood the disease.
 Has Cost 5000.
 Four grown sows have died and out If e0 niDs only thraa auryiva