Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-03-14
CARE OF THE DRY" ~0~s.

CARE OF THE DRY NOwS.
1 know dairymen who do not feed
shippers or dry cows any grain food
during the winter until they freshen late
in the winter or early spring, This may
be a cheap way of roughing them
through the winter. but such methods
have never returned a profit on the
writer's farm
l know that 1t seems loss to feed
dry COWS, but it is not so much a ques-
ton as to whether a farmer can afford
ITO feed them grain as II is whether or
not he can afford to have them become
run down in flesh and be unable to give
a good yield of milk after they freshen
in the spring
Two pounds of good, wholesome grain
food day to each COW will help Won
derfully and in connection with good en-
silage and clover hay will maintain her
in very good condition.
We have found early cut clover hay one
of the best winter feeds for dairy cat
tie. We have often changed from clover
to timothy hay and invariably the yield
of milk would fall off.
Well cured clover hay comes nearer
to being balanced food than any other
crop we grow on our farms. If the
cow could hold enough clover hay we
would not need to feed anything else,
but she likes a variety and does decided
ly better when fed ensilage with her
clover hay. Corn ensilage adds palata-
bility and succulence to the ration and
makes 1t easier to masticate and digest
than dry fodder.
The silo is also a great saver of labor
and barn room and four tons of corn
ensilage can be stored in the space oc-
cupied by one ton Of hay.
The dairyman who is without silo
to provide succulence the winter months
is certainly up against a hard PROPOSE
ton. IN. NJ. Kelly.
The Knox City CTexas) Journal thinks
well of the creamery and in discussing its
value to community says:
The soil adjacent to Knox City has
been planted on trial in nearly every kind
of feed upon which dairy COW subsists,
and has been found successful. If the far
mers had a market for butter fat their
attention would at once be turned with
great speed to that profitable branch of
the farms earnings, and it would spring
into a noteworthy enterprise in short
while. The separated milk can be fed to
swine at a profit in pork and the pea
nuts from the hay that is fed to the cow
would add to their nourishment Fifty
acres OF land we'll tended with this kind
of farming is worth whole section sown
down to cotton for which you hire some
one to help plant, chop, pillow, pick and
gin. Men are growing wealth at dairy
farming in places less favorable to the
art than here, and just why planters will
not forsake the habit of raising cotton
at an expense and engage in lucrative
business is more than we can under
stand. All farm papers are urging them
to do this. giving Illustrations and instruc-
lions as to how 1t may be accomplished.
If some one will try it the creamery
will be here at no distant date.
The Robstown CTexas) Reporter is in
spired in the following statement of the
acreage to be planted in oranges this sea-
son. 1t says:
1t is automatically reported in the ag-
ricultural newspapers Of the southwest
that not less than quarter of million
orange trees will be planted in the coast
country orchards during the coming fall
and winter. The success Of growers on a
small scale has imbued others with
desire to experiment with oranges, as
well as various kinds of citrus fruits, and
the acreage this season viii be nothing
short of marvellous in it's enormity.
A great advantage Of the coast coun-
try is the fact that orange lands In this
section are so absurdly cheap as COM
pared with the orange lands of Califor-
mia, such great capital is not necessary
to begin the culture Of the fruit, even on
commercial basis.
Japanese persimmons and figs. which
are proven to be both successful and
profitable in this country, viii also be
planted in great quantity this year.
The McAllen CTexas) Monitor says of
the cabbage movement In the Rio Grande
ya-.ey:
The cabbage movement from the lower
Rio Grande valley is now on and the
Ice and Light company is running night
and day In order to keep sufficient ice on
hand to ice all the cars that are being
shipped from the Hidalgo extension.
They are handicapped to a certain ex-
tent on account of their huge loading
rack and schultz not having yet been In
stalled. However. they are handling all
cars ordered with very little delay by
using block and tackle.
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The following from the MERTON Star
CIexas), sounds good to us away down in
the sunkissed south:
p. W. Howe will harvest his first cut
ting Of alfalfa next week. That's start
ing pretty early, but Irion county's soil
and climate push the legume out of the
ground so rapidly that It just has to be
done.
Regarding ripe Strawberries the Har-
lingen (Texas) Star says;
j. NJ. Denton had some very fine straw
berries in town Monday. They were fine,
large red ones, too. He sold them at 25
cents per quart. He has had strawberries
for a week or so. Brownsville boasts of
a few berries being on their market but
are priced at the prohibitive price OF 81
per quart.
HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS.
Good butter is always in demand
DO not allow any foul air around the
COW stable or places where milk and