Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-08-09

plow or small planter with which we
are acquainted. We have tried to make
some of these ourselves, but they were
unsatisfactory. The same is true of
some of the attachments put out on
some Of the machines which we have
tested. There is a practical marker at
tached to all two-horse corn planters,
however, and we have used this with
success and satisfaction. Where one
has some land to lay off, 1t would be
better, in our judgment, to make
three-runner sled out of 2x8s. These
should be turned up on one end so as
to cut through the ground more readily.
A pair of shafts may be attached, or
tongue If preferable, and the whole area
of land laid or in rows of such width as
you may desire Then tn eturning plow
may be used to make the bed or prepare
the ridges for planting.
SHIPPING CREAM TO THE CITY
TRADE.
A correspondent, Commerce, Ca,
writes: I am milking three fresh cows
and have three more cows and i've good
heifers that expect to come fresh some
time this spring. I am thinking of ship
ping cream either to Athens or Atlanta.
What equipment would need to start
on the cheapest basis to make a sue
CHSEG w nat pIlCG can ACN ADA AAAkh-
grade cream? I am eight miles from
the railroad, but can ship either way
at about eight a. m, would be glad for
any assistance you can give me along
this line.
You should find a good demand for
milk and cream in either Athens or At
lanta, and with the nucleus, is around
which to develop dairy herd you should
soon be in position to organize a small
dairy on fairly satisfactory lines. Not
much equipment would be needed for
the shipping of cream, however. There
are cans now on the market which have
the chambers to keep the cream or milk
cool. Then you would need sanitary
milk pals. a milk cooler. and an fee
chest. One situated eight miles from
the railroad, however, could hardly han
die such a business satisfactorily in
my judgment. Cream, shipped into At
lanta has to be cooled down to a tenn
perature Of so degrees. If 1 remember
correctly. This calls for the use Of
good deal of ice, and the profit from the
business will also be determined large
ly by the express rates. You should
look into all Of these matters before
taking up the business. You will find
that the market demands about a 20
per cent grade Of cream and for this
you could probably secure from S1.00
to $1.75 per gallon. Under the circum-
stances, IT occurs to use that you would
find the manufacture and shipment of
butter and the raising of hogs on the
skim milk and other by-products of the
dairy more profitable than the shipping
of cream. tH
MILK AS INFLUENCED BY INDIVID-
S. ]. W., Norman Park, Ga. writes:
We have a cow about half Jersey that
gives about two gallons Of milk per
day, but 1t has no cream on IL. This
is her second calf, and with her first
calf her milk was very rich We feed
her on corn, cob and shuck cut up to-
gether, with some cotton seed meal and
hulls. Can you suggest any thing to
improve the milk?
There is a wide variation in the
amount Of cream which raises on milk
from different cows, and from what you
say you probably have an animal at the
present time which will not yield a
large per cent of cream no matter how
you feed and handle her. You can not
through any method of feeding change
her nature or individuality, and il she
does not give q satisfactory amount
OF cream the best thing to do is to
dispose of her and get a cow whose in
dividual characteristics more nearly
meet your views in this matter. Sorue
people are Of the opinion that through
feeding or treatment the quality of milk
may be greatly changed. In this the,
are mistaken. One may increase the
flow of milk by the kind and amount of
food fed at different times, but the quail
ity is but slightly affected through any
process of feeding; that is a fact deter
mined almost exclusively by individual
ity and heredity. Before disposinE of
your cow IL might be a good idea to
turn her on pasture If any is available;
winter cereals will be found serviceabIe
for this purpose. Then cut out your
cotton seed meal and other concentrates
for little while, and feed her on nice.
clean bright pea vine hay and wheat
bran. II she does not respond to this
treatment in the course OF a week or
ten days, change back to the original
ration. only making it two-thirds cotton
seed meal and one-third wheat bran.
Food from to 10 pounds of bulls per
day with as much slower as she will
eat up clean.