The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-05-04
KENTS MONTHLY REPORT
TELLS COMMISSIONERS OF HIS
ACTIVITIES DURING APRIL.
Finds That Much Attention Is Being
Given to Stock Raising BY Farm
CPS and Offers Advice.

Given to Stock Raising BY Farm
ers. and Offers Advice.
Following is the report of Farm
Demonstration R. H. Kent to the coun-
ty commissioners for the month OF
April:
During the month / have visited w
demonstrators, % club members
have written 40 letters, distributed
so bushels of wilt resistant cotton
seed. installed one dipping vat, one
concrete hog wallow and Travelled
622 miles in the interest OF the work
Much attention has been given to
the raising of live stock. The all
important point of raising food crops
for this stock has been brought be-
fore the farmers both personally and
through the press. This section is
admirably adapted to stock raising of
all kinds, in that they can have some
thing growing all the year round that
they can eat. This is not true OF the
present hog-raising states, where the
extreme cold prevents the raising OF
some of the crops that we can pro-
duce with all ease. A large number
of farmers sowed rape rye, bur clo-
yer, and vetch in the early fall-Sep-
TENDER and OctOber-and have had
good grazing for both hogs and cat
tie till now. Where these crops were
planted very little other feed has been
given, which makes stock raising for
these farmers very practicable and
economical. Some of these same
farmers sowed more rape in drills IN
February, and it is now ready for
grazing, For the past month the
work has been advocating the plant
ing of velvet beans, soy beans, Span
ish peanuts, speckle peas, early am
Der and early sweet potatoes. BY
the time these crops have given out
sorghum, brabham and iron peas and
late peanuts will come in. Unless
some system to this is practiced the
stock raising proposition is going to
be hard one, and many farmers are
going to be disappo 'nted. The lack
of these food crops has been the cause
of so many saying that we cannot
raise stock profitable in this section.
We all know that no animal can live
on an oak ridge, pine thicket or
branch with nothing but herbs and
acorns to eat and stagnate water to
drink. 1t is gratifying to see this
idea of what constitutes a pacture
rapidly disappearing from the minds
of our farmers. When this idea COM
pletely disappears you will see just
as good stock raising country as you
can find anywhere.
After arrangements for food crops
are made fencing and parasites
should be looked after. To raise
stock fences are absolutely necessary
These need not necessarily be perma-
nent except where the permanent
pastures are wanted. Nearly all the
crops may be fenced temporarily and
as needed. In this way the amount
of wire needed can be greatly de-
creased. Every farmer knows that
parasites, both external and internal,
ought to be gotten rid Of yet so many
forget this important point till their
animals are near dying. In view of
this fact as well as others, concrete
wallows have been advocated Here
the animals free themselves of the
external pests till the farmer hap
pens to think that it has been about
a month or six weeks since the wal
low had any dip or crude oil in it.
The method of eradicating parasites
is the surest as well as the most eco
nomica1 that can be practiced and it
is hoped that more than a hundred
will be in use before the year is gone.
For internal parasites the following
mixture is being used by many:
Charcoal, one bushel; hardwood
ashes, one bushel; salt, s pounds;
air-slacked lime, 5 pounds; sulphur,
4 pounds, and pulverized copperas, 2
pounds The lime, salt and sulphur
are first thoroughly mixed, then the
charcoal and ashes. The copperas is
then dissolved in quarts of hot
water and sprinkled over the whole