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| concerns and often contain a consider
| able amount of fiber Their palatability
! is secured largely through the use or
! the molasses or syrup to which you
refer.
You do not say what you are asked
! TO pay for these feeds and therefore,
| il is difficult to offer any suggestions
| of a financial nature which might be
helpful in reaching a decision relative
to this matter Corn mixed with equal
parts Of velvet beans makes a good
! feed for horses and mules We had not
thought we could find anything cheaper
than this up to the present time. You
could, Of course add 100 pounds of cot
tonseed meal to 500 pounds of corn
meal and 400 pounds of velvet bean
meal and secure a very satisfactory food
for work stock. At the prices prevail
ing for corn and velvet beans you should
be able TO determine whether these
feeds would be cheaper than the COM
meneial feed about which you inquire.
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The Composition and Plant Food
Value of Ashes
J. C. NJ Augusta, Ca, writes. 1 would
like some information in regard to the
value Of wood ashes fertilizer, and in
what way are they best used?
Wood ashes are a valuable source OF
potash. The amount of this element they
contain varies materially. There is gen.
orally more potash contained in the
ashes derived from the hard wood trees
than from soft trees such as the pines
constitute There is at best, however,
only about to 8 per cent of potash in
ashes In most instances this will prob
ably run between. and per cent.
Therefore, IL would be a very extrava-
Of n n
duce ashes from the burning up of good
wood. II there are old stumps and de-
cayed. branches about not useful for
wood they could often be burned and
reduced to the form of ashes and the
ashes applied directly to the land as h
source of potash.
Wood ashes, of course, should not be
mixed with acid phosphate for obvious
reasons. They should be applied directly
to soils on which they are used and
one will need to apply from 500 to 1000
pounds per acre to furnish the land
with a reasonable amount of this eie-
ment for most of our standard crops,
particularly is this true of our truck
crops.
Wood ashes, if used as carrier or
potash. should be applied directly to the
land as soon as they are burned IN
ether words, in a fresh condition IL ex-
posed TO rain or if leached In any way
practically all of the potash, being very
readily soluble. will be washed out of
the ashes and lost to the land or the
crop to which they are applied. In other
words. il is not possible to leach ashes
and leave much potash in them.
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The Food value OF Velvet Beans
VIC C. c.. Atlanta, Ca, writes. Would
velvet beans in the hglls ana corn IN ,e enG
for horses? Corn does not yield very well
on my land but velvet beans do well.
would it add to the feeding values Of corn
and yelvea beans to add soy oeansE soy
velvet beans do fine in this section
If velvet beans, including the hulls,
and corn on the cob and including the
shuck, be crushed together in equal
amounts a very satisfactory concentrate
would be obtained for horses and mules
This material should, of course, = be
ground until it is in a fairly fine con-
dition. 1t should then be fed with Ions
fodder such as hay constitutes The
hay or roughage used may be run
| through a cutting box and moisteneo
with water containing a little salt and
allowed to stand and soften for few
hours before it is fed. The grain mix
ture indicated above can. then be scat
| tered over the cut feed. and this will
provide not only a palatable but sat
| sfactory ration as well.
Velvet beans contain more protein.
than corn but not nearly so much as
| cottonseed meal. A combination grain
| ration, such as you suggest, would OF
| course, need to be fed in liberal amounts
| TO horses and mules doing hard work.
| We would think that for a thousand
Mound animal one would need to feed
| l6 to 20 pounds of such mixture. Only
| the man actually on the ground handIng
| the work stock can tell just the amount
to feed in order to keep the animals in
good condition. Since the grain ration
mentioned would contain the hulls of
the beans and cobs and shucks, OF
course, but 1t would be lower in nutri-
| tive value than a ration of velvet
beans and corn ground together. Hence
| IL would be necessary to feed 1t In larger
amounts than the mixture of the two
grains in their pure state, even though
ground together.
we hardly think you would advan-
tage yourself materially by growing soy
beans in "a cid of corn where you nave
already planted velvet beans.
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wa. s., Pitts Ca, writes: have some
Digs about twelve weeks old that are very
| poor. feed them on shorts and corn, put
have no green feed for them at present.
| l think they have worms and possibly a
! light attack Of cholera. l would like to
know what ails them and remedy.
AS a rule, when hogs are attacked by
cholera they succumb to this disease
in comparatively short time. Occas-
sionally it assumes a more or less
chronic form and the hogs linger along
| for some time. We are inclined to
think that if your hogs had been attack
ed by cholera, however, at least some
Of them would have died. From what
IL &c, hIa that thew
are affected by lung worms as by
cholera. You can determine this point
easy enough, for when hogs are infested
with lung worms they generally cough
great deal and the frothy mucous
which comes from the mouth and nose
will be found on examination to con-
tain little short, thread-like worms. In
| the event this is the trouble we would
place them in a tent or some other close
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