Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-12-04

more expensive than cotton seed
meal, will improve the ration; hence
the bulletin recommends a mixture
Of 400 pounds corn meal, 100
pounds cotton seed meal, 800 pounds
distiller's dried grain and 100
pounds gluten feed, shoveled over on
tight floor several times to thor
oughly mix them. and then feed 1
pound of this mixture for every 4
pounds Of milk obtained, and in addi-
ton give all the silage and roughage
Of good quality the COW will clean up
without waste. IF she commences to
take on fat, reduce the amount Of
roughage.
The farmer should remember that
cotton seed meal, linseed meal, oats,
wheat, bran, brewers grain, gluten
feeds, tankage and bone meal are
rich In protein; while corn, corn
chops or meal, kaflir, milo maize,
barley and roots are sources Of en-
ergy rather than protein. Rice bran
and rice polish partake somewhat of
the nature Of both
OF roughage, grass hays, straw
and corn and sorghum folders are
rich in energy; while the legumes-
peas, clover, soy beans, vetches, al
falfa, etc.-are rich in protein. ST.
lage may be mixture Of both, but is
usually of corn or sorghum, and
therefore a source OF energy rather
than of protein.
Effects Of Lime and Cow Peas Oh
Wheat Soils.
Bulletin No. 90 of the Tennessee
station tells Of a series of expert
ments on three East Tennessee
farms having different types Of soil,
to test the virtue Of lining soils and
turning under a catch-crop Of COW
peas grown on wheat stubble be-
tween the harvesting Of one crop In
the early summer and the drilling in
OF the next crop in the fall.
These experiments extended over
IL,
four years on another and five years
on tho third.
1t was found that two tons OF
ground limestone per acre was equal
to one ton Of Stacked lime. The ap-.
plication OF lime to a soil capable of
producing a good crop of clover was
Improbable because unnecessary.
However, for immediate results in
Fastening the breaking down of
coarse stable manure or of a green
crop turned under the application Of
lime may be justified on even good
clover soils. On soils that will not
produce a healthy growth Of clover,
and on poor soils that are to be heav-
lily fertilized with stable manure or
the turning under Of a greezNcrop,
the application of lime is always ad-
visable.
The plots where the catch crop of
COW peas was turned under each year
produced very little more wheat
not so much in some cases-than the
plots where the peas we're cut and
cured for hay. This confirms the
general experience of farmers, that
the roots and stubble Of COW peas
supply the soil with so much humus
and nitrogen that it pays better to
make hay OF the tops than to plow
them under unless the soil has had
its supply Of humus exhausted by
continuous clean culture for num-
ber OF successive years.
In these experiments it was found
that land which had previously been
in sod for a number OF years and was
therefore rich in humus and nitro
gen at the beginning, actually lost
both humus and nitrogen each year.
In other words, even the turning un-
der Of the catch crop Of COW peas each
fall did not restore as much nitrogen
and humus to the soil as was re-
moved in the previous crop of wheat
and straw. On the other hand, the
plots that were poor in humus and
nitrogen at the beginning gained in
both by the yearly additions of the
catch crop Of peas, whether only the
roots and stubble were added to the
soil or the tops also were turned un-
der.
Because wheat extracts from the
soil large quantities Of both nitrogen
and phosphoric acid, the past heavy
annual expectations Of wheat have
served to transfer much Of the soil
fertility Of this country to Europe.
And the same is trnn in q La