Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-22

with the kainit. Personally, we would
prefer to use a high grade sulphate or
muriate under the several conditions
mentioned and for the reasons advanced.
From this 1T should not be gathered.
however. that kainit should never be
used with advantage or that its use Is
Objectionable Though II contains some
Impurities, these seldom If ever affect
crops adversely unless it was useo in a
much larger quantity than has ever
been advised
AMOUNT OF COTTON SEED MEAL
no FEED.
A correspondent wishes information
in regard to the amount OF cotton seed
meal to be used with silage in the short
feeding of beef cattle.
Quite an extended experience in feed
ing cotton seed meal and silage to beef
cattle leads TO the Following conclusions
relative to it's use. Best results will
always be secured from the meal when
it is fed with succulent food, and OF
quite a variety tried, there is nothing
superior to good corn. or corn and
sorghum silage; the corn to S-be cut
when the lower leaves are beginning to
fire and the sorghum when the seed
in the heads is virtually ripe. BY
sowing corn and sorghum together, a
larger yield OF siIage has been secured,
and there has always been enough
moisture retained in, the sorghum, even
In very dry seasons, to supply any de-
ticiency in the corn, with the result
that IL has kept better and proven more
palataole to the animals consuming it,
IL is. indeedYquite surprising how rapid
~ cattle will regain the drift and in
crease in weight from sixty'fto ninety
days on a ration of silage, corn and
cotton seed meal or on silage and cot
ton seed meal alone. Forty to fifty
pounds of silage is not too much to
feed TO 1900 pound steers where they
have some dry roughage in addition TO
pick over at their leisure In starting
cattle on cotton seed meal many per-
sons make the mistake of feeding too
much at first. In feeding large NUM-
Der of steers our experience as shown
that a rather moderate ration OF the
meal for the first sixty to ninety days
has invariably resulted in larger gains
to proportion to cost than where a
larger quantity was fed A moderate
amount of cotton seed meal would be
about four pounds. per head per day.
Where cattle are to be fed for $50 days
the meal ration. may eventually be in
SACdSCu w Q vi ~ POUNDS. III our cN-
perience it has never proven profitable
to feed IL pounds. and even with 1900
pound steers. the tendency under these
conditions has been. TO upset the diges-
tive system, Our best results have
been secured in long feeding periods
with about s pounds Of cotton seed meal
as the maximum amount and this not
| to be fed for over so days. For short
/ feeding periods we are disposed to
believe that as good results will be OBJ
tanned from the cotton seed meal alone
as from the cotton seed meal and corn
meal. For long feeding periods IL the
two can be combined in about equal
proportions better results are likely to
be secured.
MAINTAINING THE FLOW OF MILK
L. N. c., Macon, Ca. writes: Or
COW is drying up. and we would like to
know how to keep her udder from get
ting hard At times she coughs slight
ly; please also let us know what to do
I for this Also what to. do with chick
ems that lay eggs without a she'll.
When a COW is drying up, she should
be MIXED once a day for while, and
then finally every other day In this
way she may be dried up without -caus-
ing the udder to cake While, of
course she should not be starved, it
or rich food for a few days during the
drying up period. There is no oil or
ointment which you can. use on the I'd