Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-08

! tural colleges for Information along
/ this line. The public health service o.
the United States has investigated the
cause of pellagra very carefully. TEey
find that there are thousands of cases
/ of this disease I'm the south and they
conclude that diet plays a very large
| part in the prevention of this disease.
| They advise an increase in the diet OF
| fresh animal and leguminous foods, es-
| pecialIy IN the winter and spring. They
| recommend that every farmer should
! own a milk COW and thus supply his
| family with an abundance of this es-
| sential food and also with poultry prod
| ucts and fresh vegetables. At present
there is a tendency to use an excess of
| carbohydrates in the diet, and II has
| long been known that fresh vegetables
| in abundance is one of the best means
/ of combating pellagra successfully.
| This significant synopsis of the findings
| of the public health service has been
| incorporated at this time because of
| its timeliness, and because it shows the
| necessity for diversifying production on
the farm, and especially the importance
| of having a kitchen garden capable OF
supplying at practically all seasons of
the year an abundance of fresh vegeta-
] bles.
| After having accomplished the fore
going end, the farmer should now de-
| vote reasonable area of his land to the
| cultivation of cotton, as his main money
crop. If this plan of action is follow
| ed, a system of safe farming will have
been established throughout the south,
| and farmers living in the boil weevii
| infested territory or that which Will
| probably be infested in the next year or
| two will be able to meet the situation
| which will then confront them in sat
| isfactory manner and with the assur-
ance that they are providing Tor the
needs of their family more satisfactory
| ly than ever before and at the same
time permitting themselves on small
area of land to grow enough cotton to
afford them more ready cash when it s.
| sold than they were accustomed to hav-
ing under the haphazard one-crop sys-
tenn which has been in vogue so long.
A FLORIDA DAIRYMAN'S TROUBLES.
NJ. o. c.. valrico Fla, writes: have
been feeding corn and cotton seed meal
mixture to my dairy cows, but find this
very expensive now. Meal is costing me
s3T TO $40 ton and corn on the
eo o e1SI large siio and win fiji it with
Japanese cane. Could not get II ready In
time for corn, 1 have about used what
corn / produced. shorts can be bought Tor
about $50 a ton, bran the same, alfalfa
meal at S25 a ton. and a fine grade
Of alfalfa hay at $3.50 delivered.
seed meal / might produce my milk at
less cost. l get Is cents gallon for the
milk in Tampa. ! am planting some rye
and rape, also carrots and rltabaSas. Any
advice you can give me VIII be greatly ap-
preciated.
The combination of concentrates sug-
gested is a very good one and it is diff
| hcult to improve on it from the stand
point of efficiency in the production OF
milk We think, however. if, situated as
you are, we would combine cotton seed
meal and wheat bran In equal parts.
| We think the wheat bran will be found
more satisfactory than the shorts, AMI
combination of the two concentrates
suggested will reduce the cost of your
ration considerably, for corn at the
prices mentioned will cost you several
dollars more per ton than wheat bran.
If you are in position to buy bran. in
carload lots you can probably shave the
| figures mentioned considerably. Meal is
also not ruling quite so strong just ut
| this writing, and possibly you will ger
| 1t at a little reduction later on. 1t 3
good idea to watch the market. and
purchase these materials at season Of
the year when they are not in so great
| demand as at present.
| We do not think We would undertake
to buy alfalfa meal to substitute exclu-
sively for cotton seed meal or wheat
/ bran, one-third cotton seed meal and
one-third alfalfa meal to very good ad.
vantage; $3.50 is a very high price to
pay for any form of roughage to feed
to dairy cows especially when milk is
only bringing 2s cents a gallon. You
must undertake to produce your rough
age at home. and for this purpose there
is nothing better than the silo. With
good silage and plenty of winter graz
1 H. A..
you can solve the roughage problem
very satisfactorily. If you are obliged
to buy some roughage this winter, we
presume there is nothing you can pur-
chase which will furnish more feeding
units for dairy cows than alfalfa hay.
Milk is certainly not bringing as high
a price in Tampa as II should in view of
the cost of foodstuffs, and in many plac-
eS in the south the price has recently
been advanced l to cents a quart
We think you would be justified in ask
ing So cents a gallon for milk unless
there is a decided fall in foodstuffs at
an early date.