Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-12-18

eases and the best ways of controlling
the same. Plans will be presented indi-
eating how the spring, summer and
winter gardens should be organized and
handled in order to insure a uniform
supply of vegetables for the home
throughout the year.
We are asked specifically to save
meats and fats. Very careful and elab-
crate tests show that this can best be
accomplished by using larger amounts
of vegeta bles; yet, strange to say, there
are thousands upon thousands of homes
which are not well supplied with these
Injuries which may be grown in super
abundance throughout the length and
breadth of the state of Georgia. good
garden i'm connection with every home
in Georgia should easily be worth $10C
during the year 1918, or s6?,50O,0O0.
There will be a course of lectures on
dairying because milk is known to be
one Of the most essential and desirable
of our products, and there is no reason
why our dairy cows should not be great
ly increased in numbers and the supply
of milk made larger Milk is not only
necessary for children, but for invalids
and old people, and we are not pro-
ducing nearly as much of it as we need.
The women of the country should give
their attention more directly and specif-
lCallY TO DAIRY pTODlelHS III the IuluIC
than they have done in the past. They
should be familiar not only with the
feeding of COWS, but with the sanitary
handling and disposition of milk and
it's by-products. Those who travel are
generally surprised at how difficult ii is
not only to secure good milk. but butter
| and cheese. We make practically no
! cheese and much of the butter now
| placed on our markets is not of de-
| sirable character. 1t is not the fault
| of the milk, but the method by which
| it is handled. We must add greatly
| to our food resources another year
! through encouraging dairy production
| and learning how to handle milk and it's
| by-products on a food basis to the best
| advantage. 1t is proposed in this short
| course for women to teach them just
| how to make butter, cottage cheese and
| various other food materials which have
now become of nationwide Importance.
We are asked to have ,meatless days,
and a meatless day does not mean that
! poultry or fish should be excluded from
the dietary, but rather that the use of
| these two food materials should be
! greatly increased. Every one knows
| how difficult it is to obtain eggs, and
how relatively scarce chickens are.
| These are supplies which we can in
! crease or decrease almost at Will We
| can use incubators and so raise hum
dreds of chickens with comparatively lit
tie effort as compared with the slow and
costly methods of having the old hen
! hatch them out. Now, hundreds of peo-
pie will tell you that they cannot use
an incubator satisfactorily. This is due
| to a lack of training and understanding
| of fundamental principles They will
tell you that their chickens will not lay.
This is due to improper management
| and feeding. In too many instances the
| old hen is expected to take care of her
self. She has no permanent abiding
place in the form of suitable house.
| She is not kept free of insect pests;
| hence she becomes an idler and a loafer
| and a boarder instead of producer.
| There is no reason why one hundred
| dollars worth of surplus poultry prod
ucts should not be available for sale
! from every country home in Georgia next
year. OF course. it is not essential that
these poultry products be sold if they
| can be used in the family to advantage.
| but it is well to remember that those
who live in the country owe a duty to
| their neighbors and friends in town in
| that they should undertake to supply
a surplus of food for use in urban COM
| munitles.
A course in poultry husbandry has
been provided for the women who at
tend the snort course. Iney Will NC SlNOh
every opportunity to familiarize them
selves with the use of incubators, the
feeding and management. dressing and
| preparation of poultry for table use.
They will have a chance to study meth
| DDS of housing. There should be several
thousand women attend course OF TINS
character. 1t is essential that the
| knowledge which can be obtained there
by should be disseminated widely
| throughout the state of Georgia.
Come to the short course and be one
of the states aggressive leaders in the
matter of food conservation.
Grinding Grain for Farm Stock
r. ]. d., Rchland Ga. writes; we are
! Installing feed mill to convert corn, vel EEL
| vet beans and peanut hal into teed Tor
| cows, horses and mules. In what proper
| tion should these feeds be mixed to make
| a balanced ration?
It will be impossible to work out
| satisfactory formula for making mix
| ed feeds out of the various grains and
| roughages grown in your section or
/ the state and tell in advance just what
| the composition would be. For in
! stance, there will be one field of com
| paratively light stalks and well-eared
| corn. with but few beans. In another
| field there will be very few ears with
| coarse, heavy stalks and an abundance
| of bean vines, but with very little
| beans on them. Personally, l do not
| think it would be advantageous to in
| corporate very much of the roughage
| in the playground feed. This can be
more economically handled in the form
of baled hay, and the bag grain should
| be limited to the concentrates. In this
! case the grains selected will be deter
mined by the market quotations and
| the class of animals to which the feed
| is to be given. If there is any specific
| information you would like we would
| be glad to get it for you and render
| an yassistance possible in working out
the problems you have in the handling
! of feed.