Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-28

of provisions for the wounded.
1t has been ffty-four years since that
awful time How we'll I remember the
incidents the anxiety, the suffering and
the rejoicing at last for the victory!
horses and mules at hard work. You
should feed the grain ration indicated at
the rate of about 10 pounds per head
per day. If your horses and mules
weigh less than 1000 pounds feed less
than the proportion suggested above and
if they weigh more increase the ration in
proportion to the weight.
Only clean bright hay should be fed
to horses and mules. Peanut hay Is
likely to be of doubtful value on account
of the dust it contains
DEVEI, OPING A DEFORMED UDDER.
j. ID. NJ, Nealsville, n. c., writes: l
have a young that calved yesterday.
Her two front teats have not been filling
I'D like the other ones, and for the past
few days have been rubbing and pulling
them, thinking ! could get the milk to
come down, but far have only gotten
few drops. The udder is not hard or few
erish and | would like to know what to
do for her.
You are acting wisely in fomenting
and rubbing the two front teats of the
uOdef OF your COW WHICH w iOI SSCiiA
to be filing up properly There is moth
ing better you could do than to con-
tinue this practice. Occasionally the
end of a teat is stopped UP for some
reason You should make a thoroush
examination and see that it is open
Excessive use, however, of cutting in
struments or milking tubes is to be
avoided. Sometimes a little round
wooden plug which has been made
smooth and dipped in distinfectant
solution and inserted in the end of the
teat will accomplish all that is neces-
sary. A good disinfectant would be Gre
olin one part to thirty parts of water.
Anv of the coal tar dips may be used.
Continue to foment the udder with hot
water and then keep thoroughly rubbed
with camphorated lard or vasellne or
some healing and soothing ointment
which will keep the udder from becom-
ing chafed and inf1amed. The udder or
some cows is very much misshapen and
possibly that of the animal about which
YOU write falls away in front and has
never developed properly. While you
can encourage the secretion of milk in
the udder by the method suggested, you
cannot, of course, overcome abnormal
defects that are due to individuality and
inherited characteristics.
COMBINING CORN. OATS. ALFALFA
AND MOLASSES.
W. j. p, Monticello, Ca, writes: We
have a lot Of ear corn in the shuck. We
wish to know in what proportion to grind
this with oats, alfalfa hay or alfalfa meal
and molasses TO make balanced ration for
horses and cowsF
Situated as you are, we believe that
the best method for you to follow in
preparing feed for horses would be TO
proceed as follows: Grind your corn,
cob, shucks and all together, using 700
pounds of this mixture together with
100 pounds of cottonseed meal as a
basis for ration for horses and mules
We would advise the farmers to supply
their own roughage. which they can do
more economically than you could sup
nlv If to them. The fact is. 1T seems
better that horses and mules receive
some long fodder rather than only that
which has been ground up fine, which
would be the case where you mix alfalfa
hav saw with the concentrates men
toned above.
The best way to supply salt to live
stock is. in the form of brick or rock
salt. They can then OBTAIN what they
want Just at the times the system
Graves it most.
We are quite sure you would have to
use more molasses than you have indi-
Gated to obtain a satisfactory mixture.
We are inclined to think you will find
this product somewhat high priced and
difficult to secure. Also, you cannot use
it in a feed with satisfaction unless you
have expensive machinery whereby you
can mix If with the ground feed in the
form of a fine spray.
Another combination which you
might make up for horses and mules
would be 500 pounds of corn, cob and
shuck meal 100 pounds of cottonseed
meal and $50 pounds of oats.
Twelve to fifteen pounds of these
grain rations should be fed per 1000
pounds of live weight to horses and
mules doing hard work. You might
mix together corn, cob and shuck meal
and cottonseed meal in equal proportions
and feed to dairy COWS TO advantage.
This should be fed along with ration
of silage. mixed hay, shredded corn
slower and oats,