Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-02

or any of the clovers seed some of them
right away so as 10 provide grazing
crop for your hogs and thereby keep
them in much better condition as TO
health and insure more rapid growth
and development than if you provide no
succulent feed whatever
THE EFFECT OF ADVANCED LACTA-
TON ON MILK.
J. w. c.. Rome Ca, writes would
like some advice about my COW. She is old
and due to fresheu the first Of May. There
is something wrong with the milk; II does
not clabber good when churning. 1t foams
up and does not make butter and has an Of
fensve smell. We feed meal and hulls
and some cotton seed, velvet bean hay and
some shucks.
The milk of cows far advanced in
lactation is often difficult to chrun. This
is supposed to be due to the advance
stage of the lactation period, also to the
fact that at this season of the year
farmers generally feed dry and unpal-
atable rations. The desirable food for
a dairy COW is one of succulent nature.
Possibly there is a little green feed
available in some cereal field you may
have on your farm and if the ground is
not too wet allowing the COW to Craze
on oats or rye would probably be help
ful 1t is often necessary. where one Is
churning tempera ture by about 10 de-
green. and ii is sometimes necessary to
use what is known as starter This
consists Of a small amount of milk
which has cured normally and contains
Tactic acid bacteria. This small amount
of milk, say a pint or so, should be add
ed to the fresh milk as 1t is drawn from
the COW and the whole allowed to stand
at a uniform temperature, after 1t has
been mixed thoroughly, for about "a
hours before churning. You could
probably secure some fermenting milk
from a neighbor to use as starter.
Sometimes foaming, or the failure to
clabber is due to an invasion of the
milk by an Objectionable form OF bac-
terra. These can generally only be
eliminated by a thorough scalding ana
scrubbing of the utensils used and these
exposed to sunlight for considerable
length of time.
TREATING INDIGESTION IN HOGS.
NJ F. Ocilla Ga, writes: / nave
six fine pigs that were taken away from
their mother at five weeks Of age. Tney
are now two weeks old and are having
trouble with their bowels. nave oeen
feeding them buttermilk corn bread ana
corn. What shall l do for them!
Young pigs often suffer from indi-
ing, unless they are very carefully and
skilfully handled They are very likely
to take cold at this season of the year
by reason of the change of weather and
the exposure to cold rains. You should
see that they have a warm, dry bed
in which to sleep and the litter changed
often enough to keep it dry and in good
condition. 1t is very desirable that
the feeding troughs be kept clean and
there is nothing better to use FOR TINS
purpose than salsoda. Overlooking is
TO be avoided as much as underfeeding.
We do not consider corn a satisfactory
food for Young pigs. We would be dis
posed to cut out the corn for a while
and feed them on skim milk or butter
milk and shorts. Make fairly thln
slop with the concentrate mentioned.
A tendency to diarrhoea can often be
corrected by using little dlgester
tankage. Only small amount should
be used. You can secure this through
any of the large packing houses. 1t is
a valuable food material to have on
hand where one is handling hogs in
anv considerable number. One should
always he suspicious of sickness among
hogs, of course, as there is danger OF
an outbreak of cholera. If the condi-
ton does not right itself after the pur-
suit of the suggestions given you
should send for your county agent and
have the hogs inoculated with proven
| tive serum.
GERMAN MILLET AS A CATCH
CROP.
D. ]. s., Chester. Ca, writes: 1 have
been thinking of planting German hay
grass. Do you consider II good, Tor nay nay,
and when should it be planted? nave
been asked dollar a pound for the seeu'
Do you not think that is high?
BY German hay grass you no doubt
mean German millet. This is a crop
which may be grown with considerable
success in Georgia for hay. 1t may
be planted either alone or in comolna-
ton with cowpeas. 1t can be sown any
time after the ground warns up in the
spring until the first of August. 1t
REQUIRES from sixty to ninety days in
which to mature hay crop. In favor
able seasons and when planted early
we have seen 1t yield two cuttings a
year. When combined with cowpeas 1t
has the advantage of helping to hold
the vines off the ground and OF max
| ing a hay not quite so rich in protein,
and therefore better adapted as a feed
for horses and mules than cowpeas or
millet alone. It is best cut when 1T is
in the dough stage, and it should be
rnown like any other hay and cured in
cocks IN the field. You have been
asked entirely, too much for seed as
YOU should be able to buy it for 81 a
hu.sltal Ziilet seed is largely produced
ia V@r,,...ao. 1t would be mistake
to plaut II at this season of the year.
rERTILIZING VALUE OF VOIDED
COTTON MEAL.
r. Il. W., Durham, Ont, writes: When
feeding the best grade OF cottonseed meal
to cattle what is its after value per ton
as fertilizer? l seeded field with
sweet clover in oats last spring, and made
fair growth. Wcu}d Il have any value
plowed under in May for cornf
The best grade of cottonseed meal,
which is known as choice cottonseed
meal contains about
81 per cent digestible protein,
Els per cent digestible carbohydrates,
SO per cent digestible fat
Meal of this grade will contain per
ton about:
I412 pounds nitrogen,
"a pounds phosphoric acid,
SO pounds potash.
At the prices prevailing for availa-
BILE nitrogen and phosphorus acid ton
of cottonseed meal of the grade men,