Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-12

OF shelled corn to the bushel One
hundred and fifty tons of silage will fur
nish less than 20 pounds per day for
each animal. You will need to husband
the silage, therefore, and weigh it to
your animals in the right proportion to
make it last out. You will find the use
of the silage, though not in such large
quantities, more desirable as the feed
ing period progresses than at it's in
ception.
We would suggest that you make
mixture of one-third to one-half cotton
seed meal and corn and cob meal and
use It as the basis of the concentrates.
Do not feed over two pounds to begin
with. Increase from one-quarter to
one-half pound a week throughout \tne
feeding period until you get up to about
twelve pounds per head per day. We
doubt very much the wisdom of feeding
a larger amount of grain than this per
day when the ration consists of as much
as one-half cotton seed meal. We think
not over six to eight pounds of cotton
seed meal can be used to advantage with
long-fed steers. tr
Our experience in feeding many beef
cattle in Virginia indicated that cotton
seed meal was a most important and
ems, the cost of gains with corn, i'm
proves the quality and finish of the an
imals, and supplies them with the pro-
tein so essential in the production of
a hign-class beef animal which is not
overloaded with fat. You should place
plenty of clean, bright slower in the
racks from day to day so the animals
may eat it at will. 1t is important to
keep the racks cleaned out so that the
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condition.
Where you feed a ton of cotton seed
meal of the els per cent grade, you
should be able to return to your farm
about $40 worth of plant food, provid-
ed you protect the manure and prevent
it from washing and teaching and place
1t on the ground and work it into the
surface as quickly as possible after 1T
is made. Corn does, not contain more.
than about one-quarteP to one-third of
the fertilizer constituents of cotton seed
meal; hence it is a wise plicy on your
part to sell some of the corn and re-
place it with cotton seed meal on &C
count of the much ricner manure you
can secure to apply to your land
SUITABLE RATIONS FOR BROOD
SOwS.
C. w. c., Colbert, Ga, writes: What
must L IeeQ SOWS Oh anu W6dulltlS pi6os
What is the best and cheapest food for
fattening and growing hogs? How is
shorts made into a slop for hogs?
have the short nosed Berkshire When
is the best time to plant pecans, and
how deep should they be planted?
In breeding hogs it is important not
to overstock your farm. Start only with
a few sows and build up your herd grad
vv.an~
useful information concerning the han
ding Of hogs as you go along and may
prevent you from heavy loss before you
understand the business thoroughly. BuX
only one or two pure-bred animals, but
let them be choice specimens. A good
sire is more than half the herd as you
no doubt know. If you desire to keep
more hogs than would be obtained from
the progeny of two brood sOws buy sew
eral good grades which you can no doubt
pick up i'm your community. The short
nosed Berkshire is all right, and you
will not make a mistake i'm selecting
them. Good care and treatment is es-
sential to success with hogs. You should
provide an abundance of grazing crops
throughout the year. Bermuda sod rs
good for them to run on i'm the sum
mer. You should also have acre lots
of rape Canada peas, cowpeas, soy
beans, peanuts and artichokes. Plant
some crops such as oats and rye early
i'm the fall and let them Craze on them
early in the winter. Hogs will gather
most of their food on grazing crops and
at a minimum cost. You should natur-
ally feed them grain, however, as they1
have not a large stomach and can not
utilize coarse feeds to as good advan-
tage as some other animals. You will
find a mixture of corn and shorts in
equal parts an excellent ration for brood
sows and weanling pigs. Feed as fairly |
thin slop, and be sure that the quarters
are kept in a sanitary condition. You
should disinfect occasionally and certain
ly inoculate your hogs against cholera
by the use of the protective serum. If
you have no grazing crops available, you
must depend on corn and shorts as your
principal feed for the winter. A little
digester tankage or blood meal fed along |
with the corn and shorts will be an
advantage. Use five pounds for each |
100 pounds of the mixed grain feed OF
course. you may feed shorts exclusively, |
but this ration will be more costly than
when mixed with corn. Corn should not |
be fed by ITSELF however. as it does
not contain enough of the ash mate
rial.
Pecan trees may be, set out any time
after the leaves have fallen, and as
they have tap root very deep hole /
should be dug say about three feet |
deep and four to five feet in circumfer- |
ence. and the earth packed firmly around
the roots.
NEED OF A CHANGE IN DIET.
n. A. H.. Forrest City, N c., writes:
Would like to know what to do for my
hogs They appear to be hungry all
the time, but will not eat much. They
will not eat corn, and their actions are
hard. They are nine months old and |
weigh about so pounds each.
Your hogs are no doubt suffering from
indisposition due to a failure to give
enough variety to the daily dietary.
You should cut out the Use of corn al
together for a little while and feed
shorts instead. Feed the shorts as a
thin slop and mix with each 100 pounds