Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-11-21

bIes of this character. Moreover. hulls
are low in nutritive elements and diff
fcult Of digestion for the horse. Cattle
can utilize them to much better advan-
tage because the paunch is so much
larger and they have four stomach5
in which to triturate and grind them
down and reduce them into digestl-
BILE form. The stomach Of the horse
is relatively small and he has only one;
therefore a more concentrated and cas-
Ter digested form of roughness should
be fed. DO not gather from this that
some hulls may not be mixed with the
meal or fed even in an unground condi-
ton, but they could only constitute a
minimum proportion of the roughness
for this class of animals.
The best possible ration for horses
and mules is one consisting possibly or
oats and corn, either combined or sing
ly. About IL pounds OF corn and two
pounds of cotton seed meal should be
fed TO a 1,00O-pounj horse or mule at
hard work. The addition of the cotton
seed meal will cheaper the ration and
add materially to its efficiency as well.
1t is possible that as much as three
pounds of cotton seed meal may be fed
with safety and advantage to horses
and mules, but one can put too much nj
trogen into a ration for this class Of
anu III GNGEAS Will TCSulk
from, In feeding hulls At would prob
ably be better to use from two to three
pounds daily as a diluter for the corn
and meal which is fed to the animals.
You can, Of course, grind up the hulls
with the meal and corn. Good proper
tons in which to combine these mete-
rails might be as follows:
Six hundred pounds of corn and cob
meal, 100 pounds of cotton seed meal
md e.
this case you would need to increase
the feed per day for animals at hard
work from IL to probably Is pounds.
Another good combination would be to
mix together 100 pounds of cotton seed
meal, ESQ pounds of shelled corn, 4O~
pounds Of oats and 800 pounds of hulls.
Where the hulls are mixed with the
grain it is probably best to grind them
Cotton seed meal should never be fed
by itself but in combination with other
concentrates. For animals at light
work or standing in the stable a ration
of eight pounds of the above mixture
Will be ample. In addition to the above
concentrates you should feed from 10
to is pounds of good corn stover, or part
corn stover, and part peavine hay. Ber-
muda hay or mixed hay.
GROUND PHOSPHATE ROCK FOR
GEORGIA SOILS.
A correspondent writes: What is
your opinion of the value OF ground
rock for Georgia soiIs7
We nave not made many experiments
with ground rock In comparison with
acid phosphate up to this time. Those
which We have made, however, have,
| strange to- say, shown about the same
efficiency of these materials. In some
experiments made with corn last year
the following results were obtained:
Without fertilizer 10 bushels per acre:
with 400 pounds of floats, 1873 bushels:
with 400 pounds of l6 per cent acid
phosphate. 3s bushedls. On another
series of plats adjoining these 1000
pounds of caustic lime were applied per
acre. Where lime was used without
fertilizer the yield was as bushels; with
400 pounds of floats. 57.5 bushels; with
400 pounds of acid phosphate, 51.3 BUSH
els. On a series of plats where 400
pounds of floats and 400 pounds OF
acid were used in opposition to each
other, the results we're practically the
same.