Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-12-13
10th YEAR
NoxUBEE FARM NOTES
Corn and Tankage for Hogs.

Corn and Tankage for Hogs.
Quite number of farmers are in
curing as to corn and tankage fol-
hog. feed. In last weeks Beacon Mr.
Hughes had something to say about
this. l will give figures that sup
port his statement that corn and tank
age is better than corn and cotton
seed meal. When corn is worth $1.5C
per bushel and tankage $5.40 per cwt
it costs $1,000 to grow 100 pounds OF
pork, and with cotton seed meal at
$50 per ton and corn at $1.50, 10O
pounds pork cost SIPS. When corn
alone is fed 100 pounds Of pork cost
STATS. Or we might say that when
hogs are worth SIS per cwt., Corn
and tankage give profit of $4.1C
rer cwt., corn and cotton seed mea.
$2.72 and corn alone rs cents.
How to Feed.
Feed nine parts of corn and one
part of tankage. You can feed corn
whole and separate from tankage.
Make thin slop of tankage and feed
in "a trough, surrounded by concrete
or wooden floor so as prevent mud
getting in trough. This prevents
lots of waste. If your corn is ground
YOU can mix with tankage and make
slop. But since you will have nc
trouble in getting hogs to eat tank
age you might just as well feed corr
separately.
If you feed cotton seed meal tC
your hogs, feed as follows: Should
you intend feelings hogs for period
of more than three weeks use five
parts corn and one part meal. But
if you feed them for shorter period
than three weeks use two parts corn
and one part cotton seed meal. Bear
in mind that there is danger in feed
ing cotton seed meal to hogs, and
careless feeders should not be al
lowed to feed it.
Feed a Good Laying Ration for Win
ter Egg Production.
To increase the production Of eggs
now worth more than a nickel
apiece, Harley L. Williams, Extension
Poultry Husbandman, advises the fol
lowing as a good ration for winter:
"Grain, by measure two parts
cracked corn, one part feed oats. Mix
well and feed in little night and mem,
ing at the rate of one pint to each
zen birss. 4. -
"To produce eggs in the winter
when eggs are scarce and incident,
ally high in price dry mash must
be fed. One that every Mississippi
Poultry Raiser can easily compound
is made as follows: Equal parts by
weight of corn meal, bright cottor
seed meal, wheat bran and wheat
shorts. Mix we'll and keep before the
birds at all times in hoppers or slat
ted top trough.
To round out good winter egg lay
ing ration poultry must have in ad
dlulon % mixed grain and mesh
green feed. This can be supplied best
l by sowing near the poultry house 8
small patch of rye or oats. In case
! you have failed to provide green fooc
IN this form 60 to the garden, gath
1er and cook a pot full of vegetables
and feed each day about noon in g
trough. For the best winter egg
production green feed must be fur
nished in some form or other.
Charcoal and oyster shell KEPT
where the birds have access to il
at all times will prove very benefi
cial in promoting good health ant
a goodly supply of eggs.
If Mississippi Poultry Raisers will
follow the above methods of feeding
and do not get winter eggs it might
be we'll to investigate and see if the
hens are not all roosters.
would suggest that if wher
YOU have tried out the above
you find hens not laying it would be
wise to sell them as culls. A her
that will not lay is boarderthat doe.
not pay her bills and should be sold.
V. B. TEMPLE,
Asst Co. Agent