Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-12-10

early that they are liable to be cut
back by late freeze, OF course, in a
very wet season, which we occasion
ally have, planting is often delayed so
the crop gets on the market too late to
command the highest price. Early
planting of the Irish potato is there
fore to be commended
WINTER FEEDING OF BEEF CAT
$685.. Tile. j
r. R. r., Quitman, Ga, writes:
am adding cattle feeding to my general
farming. have thirty head TO COM
mence with on Florida beggar wood
pasture, Have aSgood barn 4Ox6O feet
with good troughs and racks. We'll
bedded with oat straw. 1 shall have
an acre of winter rye to each steer for
grazing, with cotton seed meal and
hulls and some hay. The manure to-
gsther with 1000 pounds raw rock
phosphate and some potash is to be
used. on ten or twelve acres of sorghum
to be made into silage 49, have about
Fforty stock cattle 5n hand, about hair
ct them Herefords Am planning to put
in fifty acres in Bermuda; have ten
acres ready set, and hope to finish by
last of March. I4sI1all try top dress
ing ten acres switha one ton of raw
ground lime per acre. 500 poundsof rock
phosphate and also potash. On an
jnther ten acees I14Shanc try 400 pounds
basic Stag and zoe iRS1nds OF kainit per
acre stooybe--haFrowsde iRte the. soil. II
will build an additional silo by May
II q the tvs being f6o tons capacity
each, and woullf like all the informa-
ton I can get on the subject concern
ing kind, cost of Construction. etc.
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The barn and troughs referred to in
your letter are well suited to the feed.
ing of the cattle in question. Cotton
edesmeaE available as concentrate
and, hullseand hay for ghness should
enable you to provide a very good ra-
fion, especially since you have pro-
-vided some green crops for grazing,
In our experience food available to feed
have some green food available to feed
with meal and 'hul4s. The green feed
seems to act somewhat in the nature
of a tonic TO the system, and keeps
the animals in better conditions than
where dry feed alone is used. We
would suggest that you start these an
finals on about two pounds of meal
per day. Feeding fifteen to twenty
pounds of hulls, with such hay and
straw as they will eat up clean. The
hay and straw should be kept in racks
protected from the weather, and any
left from day to day Snouad be thrown
out and utilized for bedding Increase
the meal ration about a half to one
pound per week until you are feeding
six to eight pounds Of meal with TWEEN
ty to twenty-five pounds of bulls, and
five to eight pounds of hay. You will
likely find as the feeding period pro-
crosses that the amount of roughness
consumed will tend to lessen. and this
will be more marked IL your rye has
a good top, and therefore affords a con-
siderable amount of grazing. We do
not think it well to feed over eight
pounds of cotton seed meal TO a 1000
pound steer for more than 100 days.
Our exp ,rience has shown that where
from ten to twelve pounds is fed to
animals of this weight for longer pc
RODS, there is a tendency for them to
get off iced, and of course this mill
tates seriously against the gains they
might otherwise make. While this
ration may be fed with safety, it would
be improved somewhatNif a little corn
could be added, but as you can buy the
cotton seed meal so much cheaper in
than corn, we would advise
you to leave the corn out under pres
ent conditions.
Your plan of using manure from the
stables with raw rock for the produc-
ton Of sorghum to I'LL the silo next
year is an admirable one, and we think
you will secure good results. If your
land is very sandy, you had better use
a little additional nitrogen and potash
in the form of commercial fertilizer
The stock cattle can be carried
through the winter on dry roughness
and a limited amount of meal, not over
pounu and a half to two pounds per
day. For calves under six months of
age do not feed over half pound.
BY all means establish a good Ber-
muda pasture. This will give you
more grazing in south Georgia in pro-
portion than anything you can secure.
Some of the Paspalums do well, and
the Louisiana carpet grass has proven
satisfactory in some sections of the
south. We regard Bermuda grass,
however. as the mainstay for perma-
nent pasture in most parts of Georgia.
There is no objection to the formula
you have mentioned, but you will find,
if you can top-dress some of this land
with a light coating Of manure and
work il with disk before planting the
grass, that better results will be OBJ
tained, for like all other grasses, Ber-
muda responds we'll to soils which
contain a fair amount, Of nitrogen.
You are acting wisely in building an
additional silo, and you will have no
trouble in securing the full co-opera-
ton of this institution in erecting the
same. OF course, a concrete plaster
silo or metal lath is much more per
menent. structure than one constructed
of slaves and We think it would be to
your interest to follow this type of
construction. We will be glad to CO.
operate with you in every possible way
and assist you in making the demon
STATIONS you have undertaken in