Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-10-03

Enough should be kept in the stalls to
absorb all the liquid excreta as com
pletely a possible IT Is not a dificult
matter or the whole mass cleaned from
be made or the whole mass cleaned from
under the animals and a fresh begin
ming, made. The nitrogen contained in
muck is often not in very rapidly
available FORM but this depends much
on the origin of the material. If you
have no other form of litter or absorb
ent which you can use, it will probably
pay your to use the muck If leaves,
straw or shredded fodder can be secur-
ed, however, the chances are they will
prove more satisfactory and will carry
a higher per ecent of available plant
food Litter of this character does not
decompose so readily as that contained
in muck, and therefore can not be
handled with quite so much ease. To
keep a mass Of manure until next
spring withoutgheating you should pile
1t in a basin like depression where the
clay bottom can be puddled SO as to
prevent teaching, and throw consider
able water on the pile occasionally to
keep it cool. E}fe .|
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cHUFAs AS FOOD FOR HOGS.
"A. T. D., Abbeville, Ga, writes L
would like some information in regard to
raising chufas. Are they hard on-the
land. and would it pay to rasse them in
place of cotton? / notice they sell from
s. to Sc here. How should chufas be
fortified?
Estimating pork at .S.5 cents pound.
the return from chufas in certain ex-
periments made in Alabama was about
s13 per acre. At the Arkansas station
pigs gained at the. rate of SO of pound
per day on chufas, ian acre of land in this
crop being credited with producing 5s2
pounds of pork. Estimating the yield of
corn at 80 bushels, per acre on the same
character of land 436 pounds of pork
were produced from an acre Of corn.
There is a tendency, OF course, where
the animals are, grazed on chufas to
make the fat somewhat soft and the
melting point rather low. This diff
Guilty can be overcome. however by
using corn to Anish the hogs You
will see from this that chufas may be
used enthusiastically as crop for graz
ing hogs. They should be planted any
time In May, June or even as late as
the first OF July IN rows from three to
five feet apart and from ten to twenty
inches in the drill Two to three nuts
should be dropped in each place, and
stand, you may pull up the extra nuts
and set them In the places which are
missing. The grazing should not COM
mence until the early autumn. and to in
duce the animals to eat them it is we'll
to pull up a few OF the nuts and leave
them on the surface OF the ground Chick
ems are very fond of this crop and thrive
well on it. YouNwilI see that one should
be able to make several hundred pounds
of pork per acre from chufas with
the use. of a limited amount of corn.
and the crop is not particularly exhaust
ing TO the soil. yas
A good fertilizer for chufas. would be
an S-S-S on ordinary land, and probably
a 9-3-4 on sandy land, using 300 to 500
pounds per acre. The fertilizer may be
put under the drill row before planting
the crop. The fertilizer may be put under
the drill row before planting the crop.
The crop shoulds be cultivated so as to
keep grass and weeds in check. Cons
sidering the advantages which It offers,
its relative hardihood, and the ease
with which it may Hbe cultivated, 1t Emay
be said that chufas are not utilized for
hog grazing as largely as they should
be. OF course, where one can grow
peanuts adantageously, more pork can
be secured from them and they are not
so exhausting to the land since they
gather the most Of the nitrogen needed
from the air. The price asked for the
seed in your locality seems unusually
high, as we imagined chufas should be
purchased for from 81 to $3.50 bushel.
It may be, however, that the seed is
scarce and difficult to secure this year.