Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-15

ed. It would be a good idea for you to
have the following mixture prepared and
give a heaping teasponful in the feed
once daily. This viii tend to tone up
the system:
wood charcoal ....................1 pound
Sulphur ........................s. pound
Sodium bicarbonate ..............2 POUNDS
Sodium hyposulphite ..............2 pounds
Sodium sulphate ...............,..1 pound
Anthony sulphide ...,..........l pound
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PEANUTS AS A GRAZING CROP FOR
HOGS. ~ i.-
r. W., Hickory Valley, Tenn, writes:
/ would like to have any information you
can give me in regard to feeding peanuts
to hogs.
Peanuts may be used with good adj
vantage as a part of a grazing rotation
for hogs. At the Arkansas station the
average gain. made ON peanuts was 90
'of a pound per day; from chufas, .35
Of a pound, and from corn, 81 Of a
pound. At this rate an acre of ground
in peanuts would produce pork to the
extent of 1,252 pounds; in chufas, $50
pounds; in corn, 436 pounds. At the Ala
bama station peanuts alone were found
to give an average daily gain of Al of
pound, and a complete grain ration
consisting of corn meal two parts and
cowpeas one part, .50,aaf a pound. No
doubt II small amount of grain had
been fed with the peanuts much larger
gains would have been secured. At the
Georgia station peanuts gave about as
great a gain as was obtained from skim
milk, and the cost of a pound of gain
was % cents less than where milk was
fed. Spanish peanuts should be planted
on sandy soil and the land should be
we'll lined They will mature in about
30 days, and will remain in the ground
a long time so that the grazing may ex-
tend over period of several weeks. Too
much, stable manure should not be used
on this crop as it tends TO produce tops
at the expense of nuts. A good appli-
cation of fertilizer to use is 300 pounds
of acid. 100 pounds of muriate of potash
and 100 pounds of cotton seed meal. Plant
the peanuts after the ground has become
thoroughly warm in rows 30 inches apart
and inches in the drill row, and about
two inches deep. At the last cultiya-
ton the soil should be thrown toward
the row, but cultivation should cease
after the pods begin to form.
MUCK AS A SOURCE OF PLANT
- FOOD.
"A correspondent. AdairsvilIe,. Ca,
L
have a lot of it which has accumulated
in a pond and am thinking of buying a
manure spreader TO distribute it with
II IL would have sufficient value to pay
for the labor involved.
The advisability of using muck as a
means~of improving your land depends on
several factors. First of all, one must
consider the cost of getting it out and
applying 1t to the soil, The next thing
is to determine how much nitrogen II
contains. AS rule. muck consists of
about 20 per cent of water, rs per cent of
nitrogen with only trace of potash,
phosphoric acid and lime. 1t varies
greatly in composition. depending on the
source from which II is derived and
Is naturally chiefly valuable In propor-
ton to the organic matter and nitrogen
which 1t contains On lands that are
very deficient In vegetable matter and
where one has no available supply of
litter, leaf mold or yard manure. muck
can sometimes be used to advantage. AS
the nitrogen in 1t, however, is some
what slowly available, it can not be
strongly recommended as a carrier ar
this element of plant food. One should
hardly base the purchase of a manure
spreader simply on the spreading of
muck 1t Is an implement valuable on
every farm where a variety of crops is
grown and any attempt is made tn
conserve and utilize yard manure or com
post. The manure spreader can also be
used advantageously in distributing lime
which Is an important element to suppIv
to many of our Georgia soils.
CAUSES OF DIFFICULT cHURN-
l.. w. Sharpsburg, Ca, write. T
have a heifer with her first calf and
something seems wrong with her milk.
1t tastes sweet and clabbers ali right
but when you start to- churn it begins
to foam. and the hotter you get it the
more IT foams. have not gotten any
butter from it in thirty days The
COW is wen and hardy. She has hulls
and meal, and hay and shucks to ear.
Please let me know the cause of this
trouble and how to remedy il. The
COW win be fresh again IN July.
Difficult churning is sometimes expe-
Irienced when cows are far advanced
in lactation, which seems to be the
cause in this instance One of the best
things for you to do to overcome the
trouble you are now experiencing is to
supply your COW with some form of
|succulent food This will cause the Sc
erection Of milk to be greater and not
so viscid or sticky, and will therefore
facilitate its churning. You win also
find it desirable to bring up a vigor-
Ious Tactic acid fermentation in the
milk. In other words. let 1t ripen
IOr sour more before churninp fhourn