Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-25


ditionS as to management. An excellent
FEED for horses and mules can be pre-
pared by mixing together 1900 pounds
of crushed corn, 1,eaO pounds of oats,
400 pounds of wheat bran and 400 pounds
of cotton seed meal. This makes in all
5000 pounds. Fifteen pounds OF this
mixture fed along with fourteen pounds
of timothy hay, corn fodder, mixed pea
vine and sorghum hay, or peavine and
millet hay, provides an excellent ra-
ton for horses and mules weighing
1000 pounds and doing heavy work. OF
course, many other combinations can be
suggested which could be used to adj
vantage in the feeding and nutrition
of live stock. In some instances it will
be found cheaper to use some other
grain than bran or oats to combine with
corn and cotton seed meal. These two,
however, as a rule, constitute the basic
ration for the general run of live stock
kept on the average farm. While this
ration can be varied to some advantage
for dairy cows, 1t can also be fed to
them with a fair degree Of success as
they require a ration containing a con-
siderable amount OF protein.
BREAKING A COW FROM SUCK
ING HERSELF.
w. H F., Iaurunburg, n. O., writes: I
have fine young COW % months old with
calf one month old. She gives two gal
habit Of sucking herself. and also is bad
to kick. Is there anything l can do to
prevent these habits? Her mother is a fine
COW but will also kick. .r res
When a COW develops the habit Of
sucking herself 1t is difficult to cure.
Many devices and treatments have been
suggested to overcome this trouble. The
Great majority of them. however, have
not proven very satisfactory.
One method which has been used with
considerable success is to take an or.
binary bride such as is used on a horse
and run nails through the noseplece.
These are held in position by doubling
the strap. The bride is then buckled
securely in place. The sharp points
of the nails prevent the COW from suck
ing herself. A simpler method is that
of putting what Is known SIS bull ring
In the nose Of the COW and then hang
ing another ring from the first one. This
so interferes with the use of the mouth
as to prevent the continuance of the
self-sucking habit. This method of
breaking a COW from this perpicious
habit is quite easily accomplished and
at comparatively little expense, as the
rings are not costly and can be secured
from almost any hardware store.
The disposition to kick may be in
herited to some extent but is largely
6 habit, generally aggravated by bad
handling and management of the COW
at some period of her life Unless ami
mails which have contracted this habit
are very valuable it is generally best
to dispose of them.
or the numerous methods suggested,
we think using a strap on the COW when
she is being MIXED is perhaps the most
satisfactory. In one end of this strap
a loop should be made. The strap is put
around one leg above the thigh, and
the end drawn through the loop. The
strap is then put around the other leg
and buckled, so the two legs are held
close together. The cow may struggle
little at first, but soon learns to stand
quietly as long as the strap is in
place.
TREATING A HORSE WHICH is
DEBILITATED.
T. A. W., Canton, n. c., writes / have
a filly two years old that is in bad con-
dition. She seems to eat all right but
is very thin. She doesn't like any kind
Of roughness: Her head seems to be swol-
len, especially below her eyes and under
her jaws. l would like to know what to
do for her.
From the description set forth in your
letter we Judge your horse to be suffer-
the swelling under the jaw, may be due
to a bad cold, or more likely to dis
temper. This is an infectious disease
of horses and appears as fever last
ing a few days. There is generally a
formation Of pus in the air tubes and
lungs, and assesses often form in vari-
Gus parts of the body. Light cases of
this trouble require very little treat
ment beyond the use of a laxative diet,
he IF CHI
hay and protection from cold. Where
the fever is excessive give Glauber salts
in considerable quantities, say handful
three times a day, as laxative. Steam
ing the head with vapor is helpful. IT
is best to open swellings of the glands,
though blisters and irritating liniments
should not be applied. OF course, the
trouble about which you write may not
be due to distemper, but may be caused
by a bad cold which has become deep
seated. In any event it will be a good
idea to give your horse a laxative and
then follow this up with a condition
powder, feeding, as has already been
suggested, only moist short cut fodder,
varying the ration as much as posi-
BILE, and using bran mashes largely to
replace the corn and dry roughage which
you have previously been feeding.
Or
ROCK
r. Z. s., Atlanta. Ca, writes: / would
like to have your opinion regarding ground
phosphate rock. p.
In using rock phosphate as a substi-
tute for acid phosphate it appears to
us from the tests we have made that
rock phosphate must be applied at the
rate of at least 1000 pounds per acre or
better possibly, at the rate of ton per
acre. 1t also seems quite certain that
the acid phosphate which it contains
will only become very slowly available
in our average Georgia soils. OF course
where lands are abundantly supplied
with vegetable matter through yard ma
nures or the turning under of green
leguminous crops for several years in
succession, some considerable benefit
may be anticipated from its use, but you
are quite familiar with the fact that
there are only very limited soil areas
of this type in the state at the present
time
Great claims have been made for rock
phosphate but they are misleading in
that many of them have been obtained
on soil areas where. the policy of soil
Improvement has been in practice for
some years. AS you know, we have a
number of test areas located in various
parts Of Georgia. An average OF the