Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-24

final reports e. 10 per cent
IS. Economy of production.
based on cost of feeds
and care. 10 per cent
In state and county contests prizes
will be awarded as follows:
l. For best individual calves in the
several classes.
.. For calves most economically pro-
cured.
;. For best written history of how
the calf was produced.
No boy or girl will be allowed to en-
ter the county and state calf club shows
and compete for prizes who has not fed
and cared for his or her calf for a
minimum of 12O days, or who has not
made final reports.
A calf to compete in the county or
state contest must have been born after
January / OF the year previous to that
in which the show is held. These calves
will be classified according to age as
Junior and senior calves and Junior
yearlings.
TREATMENT OF COWPOX.
8. r. p. waleska. Ga, writes: My COW
has small bumps her hind legs and teats
shout the size Of small peas. They do not
seem 10 be sore TO the touch. Would Ike
TO know how to treat them
The condition set forth in your let
ter indicates that your COW may be suf-
fering from what is known as cow
pox." This is not an uncommon dis
ease and is easily transmitted from
one animal to another. About week
after this trouble begins to make itself
evident, pimples appear on the skin,
They are at first very small but later
develop to some size and contain a
water fluid. This later turns to pus.
The base OF the sore is hard and red.
When the postule breaks. thick, dark
scab forms that has a depressed center.
After a while this come off leaving
pit or peck mark. This disease or
course can be transmitted to man by
direct incubation. The fluid from the
pimples or pustules is the material
used TO vaccinate persons against small
poX.
You can do little for this trouble ex-
cept to keep the parts soft by applying
somes healing ointment. Oxide of zinc
ointment is excellent for this purpose
After milking. little white lotion may
be applied, followed by the zinc ONT
ment. IL the udder is greatly inflamed
battle with hot water twice daily. AMI
mails affected with cowpox should be
milked last. After milking the hands
of the mixer should be thoroughly
washed and disinfected. Do not use the
milk for food.
VELVET BEANS AS FERTILIZERS.
II. C.. Statesboro, Ca. writes: On ac-
count OF the prospective high cost Of cotton
seed meal. and because Of the fine crop Of
velvet beans In this territory, a good many
farmers contemplate using velvet beans
ground in the hull and mixed with acid
phosphate as fertilizer for next crop. What
do you think Of this idesl They will
probably have a market value of SIS 10
s25 a ton, while cotton seed meal will
probably sell for three times this much,
and il will cost very little to grind them.
ton of velvet beans ground with
the hulls will contain approximately
SOS pounds of nitrogen, is pounds of
phosphoric acid, and 34.4 pounds of
potash. If ground within the hulls they
will contaif approximately 1913 pounds
Of nitrogen. 20 pounds of phosphoric
acid. and "a pounds of potash. You
will see, therefore. that velvet beans con-
tain about one-third as much nitrogen
as an ordinary grade of cottonseed
meal, a little over one-third more
phosphoric acid and nearly as much
potash. OF course, they are lower in
fertilizing constituents and fertilizing
value than cottonseed meal but i'm the
stress Of circumstances and high prices
prevailing for various materials they
could be used to some advantage for
fertiliZing purposes You will. of course.
have to use the beans In combination
with acid phosphate particularly. and
possibly IL you want TO make a high
grade fertilizer use some commercial
nitrogen. such as nitrate of soda or sui
phate of ammonia to increase the per-
centage of this element. We imagine you
could hardly afford to buy potash at
the present prices asked. We naturally
fhaf xra1x hao
Should be ground and used for ferti-
lizer without first being fed II they
are soaked for a reasonable length of
time. for ~ TO Sc hours, depending on
seasonal conditions, they will be read
lily eaten by most work animals, by
beef or dairy cattle and by hogs. AMI
mails consuming these beans will thrive
on them. OF course, in order to obtain
a balanced ration IT is best that they
be mixed with some other grain. We
believe that the farmers of your section
should attempt to feed these beans in
so far as practicable this fall by the
method indicated and save and supply
to the ground all yard manure result
ing therefrom. Our lands are very
low in organic matter and we have al
ways been delightfully."- surprised to see
what a relatively large return yard
manure gives.
TREATMENT or BLOODY MILK.
b. F. B., Tunnel Hill, Ca. writes:
have with her second calf. She did
fine az calving, but when I commenced saw
ing the milk I found II was bloody. She
seems 20 be in good health otherwise. Her
udder was caked some at first but soon got
all right What do you think Is the trouble
and what can ] do 20 remedy Il?
The trouble about which you write
may be due to an invasion Of the udder
of the COW by bacteria which causes a
discoloration of the milk after IL stands
for a few hours. You do not know
they are present at first because there
are so few OF them they do not make
themselves evident. After standing
awhile. however, they multiply in great
numbers and then you observe the dis
coloration TO which you refer.
The other and more likely cause. in
our judgment is due TO the fact that a
small blood vessel of the udder was
ruptured at the period of calving or
shortly thereafter. This is quite likely