Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-27

with wheat testing 81 pounds per bushel
you would be permitted to take about
296 pounds of wheat to produce 1876
pounds of flour You must also return
an adequate proportion of shorts and
bran to your customers 1 trust l have
made this matter clear to you, and that
if you have through any inadvertance
permitted your customers tc take away
flour separated into three grades that
you will not do so in the future, as IL
is strictly against the regulations to
deliver them anything less than a hour
made on the IS per cent basis and pro-
duced in the quantity indicated from
a given allowance and grade of wheat.
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These Pigs Need Mineral Matter
d. d. NJ, RoseborO, n. c., writes:
have SOW and six pigs that are lame in
their feet and legs. They are about four
months old and have been in fine condi-
ton until lately. l have kept them on
rye pasture all spring. Have also fed them
plenty of corn. Would like to have a
remedy that will help them.
The critical condition of the sows and
pigs about which you write is due, in my
judgment, to a failure to provide them
with an adequate and a sufficiently di-
versified ration. L imagine that these
possibly kept in quarters that are not
entirely sanitary. Correct this condi-
ton at once. If they have been kept in
fenced lot, turn them out where they
may have an opportunity to range at
will ovei a considerable amount of for
est land Provide them with such green
feed as may be accessible at this season
of the year. Prepare at once a box and
fill it with the following mixture:
Two pounds pulverized copPeras. four
pounds sulphur, eight pounds common
salt, eight pounds air-slacked lime, one
bushel wood ashes and one bushel char
coal.
Mix these materials together very
thoroughly. Keep in dry place Next
give your sows anything that will act
as purgative. The violent use of medi-
cine Of this character is to be avoided.
Then change the ration altogether If
you have been feeding corn alone, cut it
out for a few days or else combine it
with an equal amount of peanut meal or
velvet bean meal. In case you cannot
obtain these, mix ninety pounds 81 corn
with ten pounds of digeSter tankage.
Feed all of the grains mentioned in COM
bination with skim milk. Let the ami
mails have what they will eat up clean.
Keep feeding troughs in a sanitary con-
dition. The observance of these reSula-
tiens and suggestions should correct the
difficulty that you are now experiencing.
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Grazing Plants Adapted to Georgia
T. b. r., Stone Mountain, Ca, writes:
The farm l have bought has very poor
pasture, and about the only thing like
grass there is on it is like the enclosed
sample, but the stock do not care for it, /
would like 70 know what this grass is
What steps shall l take to get an nll-year.
round pasture. especially winter pasture!
should it be planted7 What fertilizers
should 1 use?
The plant which you sent US appears
to be Japanese clover. 1t was so badly
dried I'D and shattered when it reached
Athens, of course it is posS.ol to con-
fuse it with some hing else but we
think there is no doubt about its ldentiti-
cation.
We are surprised to know that your
stock do not care for it, as we have been
working assiduously to establish it on
the pastures on the college farm. We
have had only a fair measure of success,
but our cattle are very fond of it.
1t is one of the most desirable plants
which can be added to a summer grazing
area in Georgia. 1t is, of course. chiefly
valuable during the hot weather, as it is
sensitive to cold and is therefore cut
down by the first frost in autumn. 1t
does not come on very early In the
suring. Any one, however, wishing to
establish a permanent pasture In this
state should encourage Japanese clover
by every possible means. 1t is legume,
as YOU doubtless know, therefore helps
to build up the soil through gathering
nitrogen out of the air 1t adds to the
denseness of the sod and increases the
variety and nutritive character or the
grazing. 1t combines admirably with
Bermuda gross. 1t has a wide range or
adaptability for cultivation in Georgia.
When seeded along with burr clover in a
Rermuda sod it provides as nearly an
all-the-year-round pasture as we can
hone to develop in Georgia Burr clover
should be seeded Immediately, sown at
the rate of one or more bushels per acre,
scattered over the surface OF the ground
and narrowed in. This clover does not
establish itself quickly, but is one. or
the legumes which is besa adapted for
winter grazing. 1t appears dormant at
those seasons of the year when japanese
clover is at its helsnI
Japanese clover should be sown at the
rate of seven to eight pounds per acre,
harrow it into the ground and SEED only
when the season has opened up.
AS TO fertilizer, we would advise the
use of about 800 to 500 pounds of acid
phosphate scattered over the ground
either before or after seeding these
crops and narrowed in. This can also
be used in the form of finely pulverized
rock at the rate of two tons and upward
per acre. Apply broadcast and rev
DAYS before seeding any OF the IeguInes
mentioned.
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Fighting an Infestation OF Hed spioer
p Chickamauga, Ca, writes:
Tho leaves on my cotton are speaking,
looks like rust The land is new and
heavy crop Of pea hay turned under Iast
foIl The land has been making a bale
Of cotton 10 the acre. Any advice In TINS
matter will be appreciated