Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-29


an acre depending ON the location. Of
course. the nearer il is TO a railroad ami
a town the higher the price. The inn
plements needed for such a farm IN
Guiding power machinery will probably
cost $l,j00. The buildings will vary. If
good home is to be constructed, and
such necessary buildings as a silo barns
and paddOcks erected, one could figure
on an initial expenditure of $4,000. OF
course. the amount of money invested
In stock will vary with the character Of
animals purchased. Pure-bred cattle o.
one of the well established beef breeds
will cost YOU from $3.50 to $175, and
pure-bred sheep viii average at least
$40 apiece. Hogs will cost you from
SIS to $50, depending on the age, size
and breeding. You should have at least
five teams of pure-bred horses and they
will cost you anywhere from $500 to
5000 apiece. There is no reason why
Percheron mares, for instance, should
not be maintained on such a farm, and
so handled as to raise a colt satisfac-
torily each year.
OF course, with the amount OF live
stock which you propose to carry on
this farm you would of necessity have
to practice diversified FARMING. You
could grow all the rough feed needed
quite easily, and a part of the grain,
though you would probably have to buy
considerable quantities of cotton seed
meal or some other concentrate which
will take it's place.
The amount of money to be made from
such farm would depend altogether
on the ability and skin with which ii
is handled Judging from results OBJ
tanned here at the college we think
that when the farm has been established
~. ii fol
to five years, one could probably net
from 81 200 10 $4,000 a year. This, OF
course, means that interest will be al
lowed on the money invested. Under
stand that many persons might under
take to organize and direct live stock
farm on this scale and fail altogether,
but the fact that a few men are sue
ceeding along this line and doing quite
as well and i'm some instances better
than these figures indicate shows that
the plan is quite feasible under proper
management.
DATA ABOUT VELVET BEAN MEAL.
V. l.. C., Mcultrie Ga, writes What
is the feeding value Of velvet bean meal
containing the seed and hull, and how can
il he used in ration for cattle?
Velvet bean meal, that is the seed and
pod ground together, contains approx
mately 44.9 per cent of digestible pro-
tein, 51.7 per cent of digestible carbo-
hydrates and 3.S per cent of diSestible
fat. No doubt there will be some Varia-
ton shown i'm the composition of the
different varieties, but we think this is
a fair average of what one might eX-
pect meal of this character to contain.
Velvet bean seeds, of course, are some-
what richer than the above mixture, yet
velvet beans by themselves or when
orr nv wit
tain as large an amount of protein as
peanut meal or peanut cake hull includ-
ed. They contain very much less digest
lille protein than soy beans and less
even than cOwpeas. OF course, velvet
bean meal, either with or without the
pods, does not contain anything like as
much nitrogen as cotton seed meal.
There is no objection to using velvet
bean meal in mixture with oJner ma
terials for feeding purposes. We i'm
agine that velvet beans grounds up with
the hulls can be used to good effect
when properly mixed with corn or oats;
or corn, oats and cotton seed meal in
preparing rations for work stock and
beef and dairy cattle. Probably the vel
vet bean meal when mixed with corn
will make a very good ration for hogs.
RAISING MULES FROM PERCHERON
MARES.
ID. J. c., Mcdonald, Ga. writes: | would
like your ideas On raising good mule colts
from Percheron mares have a young
PercherOn weighing about 1913 pounds and
she sweats extremely when at work. win
she stand much work as common mulrr
win it pay me to keep her ana raise
mules I'm the face of the boil weevil and be
preparing as best ] can fer them!
There is nothing special to advise
with reference to the raising of mule
colts from Percheron mares. You
should breed your mare to the largest
and best developed jack you can find
in your community. 1t is important
that the jack be a thoroughly typical
animal and as free from defects as pos
sible in the hope that you may raise
a mule colt of exceptional value. If /
owned a Percheron mare 1 would not
breed her to a jack, however, but to a
Percheron stallion for this reason; a
part of the colts will be females and
they can be kept on the farm at a
comparatively small cost, and a herd
of breeding horses thus. developed. True
it would be a slow process, but econom-
ical and satisfactory in the long run.
OF course if IT is impossible 20 find
= Percheron stallion or a draft stallion
in your section of the state, you will
probably be forced to breed this mare
to a jack.
\ PercherOn mare three years old
would not be expected to do continuous
heavy work. A horse is not matured
until five years of age You can injure
any horse by overwork before they have
attained their full growth and develop
ment. 1t is not surprising that she
should sweat excessively when doing
heavy work. Almost any animal will
do this a Percheron may sweat more
freely owing to the extra flesh they
carry than some other types of farm
work animals. We have used Percheron
mares on the college farm for several
years and they have done their full
proportion of work. as to blowing, cul-
tivating and the general work on the
average farm. We take good care of
these horses, especially in warm weather
and do not allow them to become over
heated. This does not mean that they
are kept in the stable and not worked.
We have done a large part of our plow-
ing with Percheron mares, and we also
work our stallion in harness a part Of
the year.
The best way TO meet the boil weevil
is to emphasize live stock production
and diversified farming. You should
plant only early maturing varieties of
cotton. You should fertilize the cot
ton literally and work it so as to force
it to maturing as quickly as possible.
Punctured squares should be picked up
and burned. If you practice a rot J.
ton of crops and raise live stock and