Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-01

the cost of the fertilizer so much as to
make it's use of doubtful value from a
financial point of view. Stable manure
may be used at the rate or two tons per
acre and upwards. If you only have
limited amount, use two tons in the
drill row; but If you have larger guam
tity you may apply broadcast and work
in with a disk.
GRAIN RATIoNs FOR YOUNG
CALVES.
A. &. p, JeffersontOn, Va, writes: What
do you consider the best feed to give pure
bred beef calves, whose dams do not give
sufficient milk and where nurse cows are
not kept? Corn, wheat bran, cotton seed
meal, pea and clover hay are available,
also corn silage. Could get other feeds If
desirable.
If situated as you are, we would pre-
fer to rely on corn and wheat bran as
| the grain mixture for beef calves until
| they are about six months old. 1t is, of
course, understood that the calves will
suckle their dams, and therefore obtain
as much milk as is possible without
the use of nurse cows. The dams should
| be fed so as TO stimulate the milk flow
| as much as practicable. Corn and wheat
| bran in equal parts will make an excel
| lent grain ration for calves. Chopped
| oats can also be fed to good advantage
| though you make no mention of having
| these on hand. In fact, oats are pref
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beef calves from the time they are
| taught to eat until they are several
months of age The corn may be crack
ed or ground into meal. When the wheat
and corn are mixed together, they may
be scattered on the bottom of shallow
boxlike through which are about l.
inches high. These troughs should be
substantially constructed, and should be
put in a part of the stable or yard from
/ oh 1S
| If the calves are driven into this en-
closure after sucking the dam and a lit
| tie of the bran and corn rubbed into the
mouth with the hand, they will quickly
learn to eat il. If scattered out thinly
| in the troughs, as suggested, there is
not much danger of them eating too
much or gorging themselves so as to
produce Indigestion. We would provide
rack and teach them to eat peavine
and colver hay as soon as practicable. A
little layer of corn silage can be scat
tered over the feeding trough where
the grain is fed and the latter scattered
over it. There will be little trouble
in inducing calves to eat considerable
quantity of all these feeds OF course,
they should be watched daily to see that
they are in good condition and the
troughs should be kept free from moldy
or dirty fodder or grain. After the
change the grain ration to IL corn, IA
bran and Ia cotton seed meal. This
will make a well balanced ration for
calves and should cause them to grow
off rapidly and uniformly. Of course,
you should keep the calves under good
conditions in the stables as to tempera-
ture and circulation of air. The stall
should be kept dry and well bedded. 1t
is desirable that plenty OF exercise be
provided for the calves, and to that end
there should be a large yard to run in
or a pasture to range over when the
ground is not so wet as to injure the
turf by tramping. Unless your cows
give a very small amount of milk we
hardly think 1t necessary to feed So
called milk substitutes to calves. AS
practical proposition. we would concen-
| trate our energy on teaching them to eat
the foodstuus suggested above.
PREPARING A BALANCED RATION
W. H.. Griffin, Ga, writes: We are
contemplating putting In machine for
grinding corn fodder. hay, straw, etc, and
would like for you to tell us what would
be a balanced ration using these feeds.
An almost endless number OF formu-
las can be prepared for feeding live
stock We are inclined to think, how
ever. that for most practical purposes
| farmers will find II to their advantage
/ to feed a considerable part of their fod-
der in the natural condition rather than
ground up and mixed with grain. To
this end we suggest some combinations
of corn which may be used with vari-
Gus forms of roughage in their natural
state with profit and advantage to the
| farmer.
For horses and mules mix together
500 pounds of corn and cob meal 100
pounds of cotton seed meal. This should
be fed with IL pounds of peavine or IA
pounds of Bermuda hay. Another COM
bination is 500 pounds of corn and cob
meal, $50 pounds of oats and 100 pounds
| of cotton seed meal. This of course
/ should be fed with roughage as indi-
Gated above. Another good formula is
200 pounds of corn, $50 pounds of oats.
| 100 pounds of wheat bran and 100
/ pounds of cotton seed meal. Feed with
IA pounds of Timothy hay, IA pounds of
corn slower or IL to 12 pounds of corn
| fodder 1t is commended that 10 pounds
Of any of the above rations will consti-
tute a ration for a horse or mule weigh
ing 1000 pounds and performing hard
work.
| Another excellent ration is 2 pounds
of cotton seed meal, 6 pounds of mo-
asses. pounds of shelled corn and IL
pounds of Lespedeza or other legumi-
nous hay. If you desire to do so you
may substitute pounds of corn and
cob meal for the shelled corn.
Good rations for dairy cows weighing
| 1000 pounds may be made from the fol-
| lowing: pounds of cotton seed meal,
| 3 pounds of corn and cob meal
pounds of corn slower and pounds of
peavine hay with 40 pounds of silage.
Another good formula is pounds of
cotton seed meal, l pound of wheat or
rice bran and 20 pounds of cotton seed
bulls.