Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-06-28

farmers of the state will insist on the
legislatures appropriating at least 5000
per annum TO the college for the manu-
facture and distribution of the serum for
the proper protection and encouragement
of one OF Georgia's most neglected indus
tries. Ohio is appropriating $4,000 annu-
ally to the State College of Agriculture
for this purpose, so Georgia need not hes
itate upon the grounds of the treatment
being still i'm its experimental stages. The
board OF the college only ask sufficient
support for this work to enable them TO
make the college the great efficient agent
il can and should be for stamping out
this horrible menace TO the hog industry
of the state.
GROWING RED CLOVER IN GEOR-
GIA.
j. F. H, watkinsville. Ga, writes: j
send you some blossoms and leaves Of
clover one bunch of which has grown
on my place for eight years. l would
like to know what kind it is. 1t re-
sembles the crimson clover, but can not
be it. If you can tell me what it is 1
want to sow some this fall.
The sample of clover was much dried
when received, and it's color had faded
out We judge, however, that il Is
sample of common red clover. To make
the Identification positive it would be
well for you TO send fresh sample con-
tanning roots, leaves and blossoms. We
think, however, that there is no reason
able doubt as to the identity of the sam
pie. Red clover is very commonly and
extensively grown in the north. but 1t
has not been grown much in the south.
The climate is not altogether favorable
for IL, as 1t suffers from the hot. dry
weather incident to our summers, and is
a plant which requires a soil containing
considerable percentage of lime.
There is also a disease which has killed
a great deal of the red clover in the
south, but nature has provided a strain
which Is resistant TO this disease, and
can be successfully cultivated on that ac-
count We judge from what you write
that you have a strain which is resistant
TO this disease, and is we'll adapted for
cultivation in this section. We believe.
therefore, If you will lime the land in
which you put the seed, enrich II by
growing cow peas and turning them I'M
der this year, or use heavy applications
OF farmyard manure and then use plenty
OF phosphoric acid and potash, that you
will probably be able to grow this clover
with fair success. II makes a very fine
hay and IL crop which we can afford to
make every effort TO grow in Georgia.
CAUSES OF DECREASED MILK
FLOW.
T. NJ. c., Jackson, Ca. writes: I have
2-year-old COW, part Jersey. with her
first calf months old. She gave two and
one-half gallons per day for one month,
but has fallen of 10 less than two. / de-
sire to make fine COW out OF her, as her
mother gave six gallons per day. She
has cough Besides grazing l feed her
four pounds of cotton seed meal and II
pounds OF hulls per day. ] have a SOW
which narrowed two weeks ago. What
is the best feed for her; also for one
carrying young? I have one-fourth of an
acre I want to plant in sorghum and
peas so as to get the benefit of them
by September !. Would you use them
for hay or Craze them down? Please
send a formula for spray for COW, as she
Is terribly owrried with flies.
There is a wonderful variation in the
ability of cows TO give a large flow of
milk through a long period OF time, and
while your COW may have been out of a
very fine animal. it does not follow that
she will be as persistent and abundant
a mixer as her dam. We see this thing
illustrated with pure-bred animals in our
own herd from time to time OF course
you must not conclude from this that
breeding does not pay, for 1t certainly
does. but there are scrubs, as II were,
among pure-breds as well as among
grades. In other words, there are GER
tain animals which fail to come up to
certain standard which must be regard
ed IL animals of a high production are
10 be maintained. The fact that your
COW gave an abundant flow of milk in
the beginning. however, would indicate
that the food is not well suited to her,
or that she is suffering from indigestion
/ would advise that you desire the best
possible grazing for her and cut down
| the amount of meal and hulls by one
| half for a few days. You should also
give large amount of EPSON salts as
drench to cleanse the digestive sys-
TEN. II the cough is persistent IL would
indicate that the animal is probably af
fected with tuberculosis. To ascertain
| this ii would be necessary to apply the
| tuberculin test. While this may be done
/ by the layman, il is generally best to
have a competent veterinarian supervise
| the making of the test. II the cough is
something of recent origin, it may be
due TO a little cold. which is probably
only a temporary trouble and will soon
pass away.
II is best to breed COWS, as a rule,
so as to have calves dropped I'm the
spring. as they then have an oppor-
tunity to Craze and thrive better when
weaned. A COW carrying a calf said
be literally fed. The change I'm the
ration at times is likely to prove bena.
ficial. Breeding animals should not be
kept too fat. and this applies to all
breeds and classes without dis rimina-
tion.
You are giving your SOW an excellent
/ ration for an animal confined in close
quarters. In fact, we can suggest notn-
| ing that would be better for her or the
| young pigs. OF course, you may feed
little corn, but not more tnan hair
of the ration should be corn. The moss
| important thing is to secure some pas
turage or green feed of one kind g.
another and let the animals have a.
much range as possible They VIII
gather a considerable part of the nutri-
tion needed If given a sufficieRt amount
Of liberty. In feeding a sow carrying
young protein foods should be used as
/ far as possible. The best treatment
conceivable is to turn her on grazing
J crops, or in a wood lot or pasture ana
feed her comparatively tain slop made
from the household waste and shorts.
Overlooking is as undesirable as under-
| feeding.
! A quarter Of an acre Of rich lie