Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-02-03


Gray pine land with yellow subsoil
is not likely to be a rich type of soil or
one in which there is an abundance of
vegetable matter or mineral matter,
such as plants need to stimulate a rapid
and vigorous growth and insure large
yields. Even though you have plowed
under a crop of cowpeas you have only
added comparatively small amount of
vegetable matter or humus to the soil.
do not say this to discourage you in
the practice of blowing under green
crops, but rather to encourage you. We
must realize that it takes a long time
to build up land, and that a large
amount of vegetable matter must be
utilized before any substantial improve
ment In the physical condition of the
soil may be anticipated. Two hundred
and twenty-five pounds of fertilizer is
not a heavy application to make. You
should certainly use as much as 500
pounds. Personally we would prefer to
use a 3-10-6 on land such as you de-
scribe. You would have to use twice as
much seed as you would of meal in
order to secure the same relative
amount of nitrogen in your fertilizer,
and it is very difficult matter to use
the seed and secure a high enough per
cent of phosphorus and potash to answer
your purpose. On this account If you
insist on using the seed, which we do
not believe either practicable or desira-
BILE, we would advise you to apply 800
pounds persacre in addition to the form
ula we have suggested In that event
no not use more than 400 pounds of the
commercial plant food. Open up your
burrows four feet apart, put in the seed
and mix well With the soil. This may
be done as soon as practicable in order
to give them time to decay. Then, mix
400 pounds of the fertilizer formula
with the soil about ten days before
planting, and make a low bed in which
to put the seed. IA
HOW TO FEED A JERSEY COW FOR
MILK PRODUCTION.
L. N. c., Macon, Ca. writes: have
Jersey cow about IS months old. She
has had one calf. We have been feeding
her one quart each of bran, Rex COW
food, corn meal and Como, a pint of
cottonseed meal and a quart of cotton
seed huIis. with hay, morning and night.
We lost a nice Jersey last year, and the
veterinarian said 1t was because she was
fed too much cottonseed hulls and meal;
that it was not digested and lodged in
the folds of her flesh and decomposed.
We have no pasture, so have to buy all
her food. She only gives one gallon of
milk day, but 1t is very rich.
An excellent ration for your COW will
be a mixture of equal parts of bran,
corn meal and cottonseed meal. She
should be fed this mixture according to
live weight. About ten pounds per day
per 1000 pounds of live weight Is about
the right proportion In which to feed
these concentrates. II your COW only
weighs 800 or 700 pounds, as she probably
does, feed only half of the amount indi-
Gated 1t will not be difficult to secure
a tin measure and mark on the inside
by means OF paint the proper height to
fill 1t so that you may know that you
are feeding about the right amount by
weight of concentrates night and morn
ing. In addition to the meal ration she
should be given nice. bright, clean hay
and a moderate amount Of hulls. One
pound of concentrates may be fed to
three pounds Of hulls. She will probably
consume as much as Is pounds of hulls
per day, and possibly Ave pounds of
hay. Do not feed a larger amount Of
hulls than has been indicated. OF course,
any animal is liable to develop indiges
tion If the ration is not changed and no
green feed given and the regulation of
the bowels looked after through an oc-
casional dose of salts or other purgative
which will cleanse the alimentary canal
Cottonseed meal may be fed with silage
but since silage is not available under
to cows for an indefinite period of time,
your conditions, it is probably better to
use the combination of meals suggested
above.