Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-31


beans may be followed. If the corn
stands upright and has not been snapped
off cut the corn with a corn harvester
and bind into sheaves. These sheaves
should be set up in neat shocks and
securely tied and the whole mass OF
vines allowed to field cure until dry.
| IL the corn is broken over then the
best thing iu to cut with a mower. Sc
cure stakes about three feet long and
drive into the ground to depth Of
twelve to eighteen inches. Set the
stakes in circle about two to three feet
apart Stack the vines and stalks on
these and allow to field cure just as you
would handle a crop of peavine hay.
The weather is likely to be settled now
and you should be able to handle the
crop in the manner suggested to ao~
vantage.
If you do not expect to sell it there
is no reason why you should go to the
expense of baling. If you have large
loft set your shredder in front of it
and blow the shredded fodder into it.
Feed of the character mentioned
should be more valuable for mules than
corn slower. Corn slower of the high
est grade has about three-fourths the
feeding value of timothy hay. The addi-
ton of the peavines should make the
combination crop outrank timothy hay
as a food for horses and mules. 1t is
not likely that you have so much velvet
beans mixed I'm with your corn slower
as to make it's use as roughness for
mules dangerous. One of course can
not feed a large amount of a nitroge-
nous food to horses and mules as the
animals are likely to be surfeited with
nitrogen, producing thereby what is
known as azoturia. According to our
observation a mixture containing not
over one-ffth velvet beans could be fed
with safety. This proportion of velvet
beans and shredded slower should make
very good ration for horses and mules,
Especially where corn constitutes the
principal grain ration.
BUILDING UP THE DIGESTIVE
SYSTEM.
W. E. T., Trenton, s. c., writes:
have a horse l. or 10 years old that
weighs about 700 pounds. He got poor
during blowing time and can not fatten
ham. i feed him eight quarts Of alfalfa
with four quarts of corn meal mixed a
day. Is there any feed that will be
better for him? lie will not eat corn. I
nave to feed him soft feed all the time.
1t is not surprising that you have
trouble in fattening fifteen or sixteen
year-old mule. The chances are that
he does not eat corn because his teeth
are i'm poor condition. When horses
or mules attain this condition it is
often hard to get them fat. Naturally
their digestive and assimilative system
is not so active as when they are
younger.
We suggest that you examine the
mouth of your mule very carefully and
see if the teeth are in good condition.
Sometimes they wear down unevenly so
that the animal can not masticate his
food This, of course, interferes with
mastication and often develops into
some chronic form of indigestion. When
horses get off feed it is often a good
thing TO give what is known as an in
ternal bath to the digestive system.
This may be accomplished by giving a
dose of EPSON salts as a dench. We
then suggest that you give the follow
ing condition powder: Sulphate of iron
2 ounces, nitrate of potash (saltpeter)
2 ounces, gentian root (pulverized) 2
ounces, nuX vomica seed (pulverized) l
ounce, ginger root (pulverized) l ounce.
These ingredients are to be thoroughly
pulveriZed and mixed, and a heaptng
teaspoonful of the mixture given in the
food three times daily. In case a horse
will not eat the powder. omit the gen.
tian root and add linseed meal.
We then advise that if you cut or
chop up the coarse feed you are using
and moisten it with brine water and
leave it to soften before it it is fed it
will improve it a great deal. Then in
place of feeding corn alone feed equal
parts of a mixture consisting Of corn
and oats. Provide small amount of
alfalfa hay at each feeding. Over
feeding of nitrogenous roughage is, of
course, to be avoided. Keep the manger
clean and sweet and give the mule a
reasonable amount of exercises. If this
does not tend TO build up the digestive
system and improve it's condition it is
not likely that it can be benefited by
any other process of treatment with
which l am familiar.
A CHANGE OF RATIONS NEEDED.
NJ. A. L., TallapOosa, Ca, writes. /
nave brood SOW that can not stand up.
She has been very thin all year. Sne
,lOes not seem to digest her food. She is
due TO bring pigs the last of the month.
II you can give me a remedy for her
will appreciate il.
We do not think there is anything
especially wrong with your sow except
she is probably suffering from INSULT
Gent variety of the ration you are Civ
ing her. You do not state whether she
il confined in the pen or not. If so
urn her out and give her opportunity
to range over any woodland and pas
ture land that might be available on
the farm. Cut out the corn altogether
for a little while and feed her on shorts.
The shorts should be reduced to a thin
slop with skim milk or some other car
rier of protein. Do not give her kitchen
slops that contain soap powders. This is
an important matter TO remember. Pro-
vide her with an abundance of fresh
water. Keep her bed dry and in good
condition. Supply her with an album
dance of ash matter made up of burned
corn cobs, lime. ashes and charcoal.
The abundant and liberal feeding of
a SOW carrying young is of the utmost
importance. You might give her a few
ears of corn each day i'm addition to the
ration suggested but the use of corn
exclusively is a mistake as it does not
contain 2 sufficient amount of ash or
protein. IL the corn ana shorts were
combined into equal proportions they
would make a much better concentrated
ration for SOW than corn alone.
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