Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-22

in a few days. In case of very bad in
festation, one part of any of the coal
tar dips to 80 parts of water may be
used.
The best way to maintain brood sows
and hogs between fattening seasons is
on green feed. For this purpose you
should allow for sufficient grazing land
to grow a variety Of crops which will
come on in succession, and thus supply
the animals with fresh green feed dur
ing the greater part, of the growing sea-
son. Good crops to utilize for this
purpose are early and late maturing val
rieties of COW peas, soy beans, peanuts
and artichokes, while for winter grazing
you should use oats, vetch and Grim
son clover. Rape sown in the early
spring is an excellent crop. Sorghum Is
not a particularly good crop for hogs,
though chufas can be grazed to good
advantage. Sorghum seldom IL eevr
hurts cows, especially II cut and fed
to them. II they are allowed to Craze
on it when il is in a very green con-
dition and they are hungry, II will some
times cause hoven or bIoat. Occasion
ally poison develops in sorghum in an
unusually dry season and has been
known TO kill cows, but this trouble is
not often met with in the southeastern
states.
Melons will hardly make paying
feed for hogs. The soy bean and other
crops mentioned supply more grain better
suited to their nourishment than mel
ons.
Your oats have stopped growing be-
cause of a deficiency of nitrogen in the
soil. Top dress them with rs pounds of
nitrate of soda Immediately, and then
put on as much more I'm the next ten
days. You will probably notice a
change in the color in very few days.
The nitrate should be put on when the
leaves are dry and used as top dress
ing 1t is now late in the season to use
fertilizers containing mineral plant food
on crop Of oats.
The land referred to on which you
desire to grow sweet potatoes should be
fortified with mixture which contains
not less than 8 to 10 per cent of phos-
phoric acid, per cent Of nitrogen and
per cent of potash. From 900 to 800
pounds of such a mixture should be
used on sweet potatoes where large
yield is sought. The thorough cultiva-
ton and preparation of the land is de-
sirable. on peanuts formula contain
ing 10 per cent of phosphorus, per cent
of potash and / per cent of nitrogen
should be used at the rate of 500 pounds
per acre on soils such as are described
in your letter.
There is nothing which you can plant
in your cotton at laying by time which
viii make a satisfactory feed for hogs.
Some of the winter cereals may be sown
later on in the season, say about the
first of october and will afford good
grazin, especially If seeded wit hhairy
or winter vetch.
FEEDING DAIRY COWS FOR MILK
PRODUCTION
]. L. NJ, whiteville, N. c., writes: I
have been feeding my milk cows on
mixture of one-third cottonseed meal and
two-thirds corn meal and wheat bran or
wheat middlings, but from one Of your
articles which recently read, am
of the opinion that I should feed larg-
er proportion of cottonseed meal, or per-
haps cut out the other feeds and feed
only cottonseed meal with roughness,
such as peavine hay. l would like to
have your advice in the matter
You have been feeding an excellent
grain ration to your COW in mixture
of cottonseed meal, corn and bran in
equal proportions, and there is only one
serious objection to it; and that is, its
cost. There is no reason why you Snould
not feed half cottonseed meal and half
corn with equally satisfactory results
and at a considerably lower cost. One
may also feed cottonseed meal alone for
long periods of time with perfectly sat
isfactory results. and this makes a cheap
er ration than corn and cottonseed meal.
Most people who attempt to feed cotton
seed meal alone to dairy cows make the
mistake of giving too much or they fall to
adjust the quantity to the needs of the
animal. II the feeding were done by
thoroughly reliable white man. there
would be no trouble, but II It is left TO an
irresponsible negro one cannot tell what
the COW is likely to receive. Cottonseed
meal is a very concentrated food, and
one pound of IL contains more than three
times as much digestible protein as
pound of wheat bran; therefore, IL you
feed i've pounds per day, you are feed
ing the equivalent Of from is to Is pounds
of wheat bran. When you bear this fact
in mind, IL is easy to see why II is so
important to weigh the food carefully
and give the amount suggested and not
two or three pounds more, under the inn
preston that Il win do no harm. Cot
tonseed meal fed with peavine hay makes
an excellent ration for a COW. As the
peavines themselves contain a good deal
OF protein, II is better possibly in this
instance to use a little corn meal, as
has been suggested. The ration of five
mounds of meal should be divided into