Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-29

farmers throughout the peanut and sweet
potato section of the south. 4 intend
to let them have the run Of an enclosed
swamp with adjacent pastures of rape,
rye and oats, oats, sorghum Spanish
peanuts, sweet potatoes, beans and peas.
1 will have them on one Of these past
ures all the time. Do you think the
Tamworth would prove satisfactory un-
der the conditions given? 1 would like
a balanced ration and best method of
caring for the sows. stgt 81
Your plan or raising hogs should. prove
profitable. The swamp to which you re-
fer will furnish very considerable.
amount of pasture and a variety of food
which hogs will like and profit by. Then,
the succession of forage crops which you
propose to grow will supply the addi-
tional food needed. in a cheap and eff
ficient manner, but you will need to feed
a little grain in order to secure the best
results. The Tamworth will prove one of
the most desirable breeds to use under
the circumstances. since these hogs are
good grazers prolific and will gather
their food with advantage from the va
riety OF crops mentioned. While they
are not the only breed. they are as well
adapted to grazing purposes as any which
you could utilize. Next to them may
be mentioned the Berkshire in point Of
adaptability. An excellent ration to feed
hogs may consist OF two-thirds corn
and one-third shorts or chops fed as a
thin slop. or course. the animals should
be given about what they will consume
readily when you are trying to force
them for rapid gains: otherwise the ra-
ton may be reduced very considerably.
Another good ration Is 80 pounds of corn
and 10 pounds of digester tankage. This
may be fed dry or in the form of a slop.
Limited amounts of cotton seed meal
may be fed for periods of 30 to 60 days
along with the corn. Mix together FIVE
parts Of corn and one part of cotton seed
meal and ferment well for "a to 70 hours
before feeding. The feeding of cotton
seed meal should not be continued for
long periods of time and it's use should
be discontinued where animals have not
the use of an open range and plenty
of succulent crops available for pastur-
age purposes
A GOOD GRAIN RATION FOR A JER-
SEY COW.
L. F. W., Milan, Ca. writes: / have
a thoroughbred Jersey COW with a calf
two weeks old. / am feeding her on
cotton-seed meal and bulls. also have
good wiregrass pasture. How much
results? Have you found any remedy
for black root in cotton? Is it due to
an insect, or what is the cause?
A COW with young calf should not be
fed too heavily on cotton-seed meal and
bulls, especially II she has the run of a
good pasture We seldom feed more
than two to three pounds per head per
day during the summer. though we allow
the animals to eat such roughness as
they win readily consume. The overfeed-
ing of hulls is inadvisable as II may tend
to cause impaction of the rumen. Prob
ably 10 to Is pounds per day is the limi.
which should be fed. If the pasture Is
good the hulls may be largely withdrawn
from the ration. A COW that gives an
unusually large flow of milk and weighs
more than 1000 pounds can probably be
cotton-seed meal per day even when on
fed as much as three or four pounds of
fair pasture.
The only remedy found for black root
up to this time is the planting Of i'm
mune strains OF seed. Certain varie-
ties have been found to be quite resist
ant to this trouble, even when grown
on land where the disease has been par
ticularly bad. Among the varieties which
may be mentioned are the Dixie and Dill
lon. You should not have serious diff
ficulty in securing seed of these varie-
ties next spring. There is nothing
which you can do to stay the progress
of the disease in your fields at the pres
ent time. and since this disease is spread
by spore which is resident in the soil
from year to year or in decaying roots
and other parts of the cotton plant, 1t Is