Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-20

nut vines with the nuts. of course, run
much higher in protein and fat than the
hay.
Peanut meal, when the hulls are in
cluded, contain 2S.2 per cent digestible
protein, 16 per cent carbohydrates and
10 per cent digestible fat 1t thus con-
tains three times as much protein and
fat as the hay. Peanut meal, therefore,
is a rich concentrate admirably adapted
for feeding in combination with corn
and other cereals to various classes OF
| live stock which can be maintained to
advantage and profit. In tests made
here on the college farm it has given ex
cellent results.
Good Tonic for a Mule Out of Condi-
ton
d. NJ. NJ, of Osborne, N c., writes: 1
have a mule about eight years old, weigh
ing about LOO pounds. When blowing in
ground some time ago she got very hot
and since then she has been sluggish. When
she gets a little she eats heartily
but has fallen off in flesh and appears to
be weak when she beats hot. Please ad-
wise me what to do for her.
The trouble, such as you describe, is
not unusual and came about probably
from straining and overwork during
warm weather. You need to tend and
handle this animal in such a way as to
build up her system and thereby enable
her to regain the former stamina She
possessed. To this end we would sug-
gest that it would be a very good prac-
tice to give a purgative, say in the form
of EPSON salts at the rate of one TO one
and one-half pounds used as a drench.
Then use the following condition pow
der for a few days:
Sulphate of iron ......-......2 ounces
Nitrate of potash .............2 ounces
Gentlan root .................2 ounces
NuX Vomlca ...--............I ounce
Ginger root ..-......... II ounce
These materials should be very thor
oughly and completely pulverized and
mixed. A tablespoonful constitutes a
dose and should be given in the food
three times daily.
1t is important that you supply a
small amount of succulent feed and that
you use only clean, bright, mixed hay
in the roughage part of the ration. A
feed of not more than two-thirds corn
or corn and cob meal with the balance
made up of oats and a dash of cotton
seedmeal should be given.
Handling Land to Be Cropped in 1919.
J. l.. c., of Gainesville, Ga, writes:
had about five acres of oats and they
were late did not get them off so to SOW
this land is peas Will il be better for the
land to sow it in peas and cane seed after
turning and cutting same well now, let
land in good shape for corn and cotton next
year. Which would be better to follow the
Oat crop? We dehorned a fine mich cow
last winter and now every time it rains
or the weather changes her right horn clogs
up and has to be opened This horn has
never cured up. The discharge is just q
watery substance. Please advise us what TO
do for this cow.
1t is, of course, late in the season to
SOW peas or sorghum for the purpose
of maturing crop. Under very favor
able conditions of weather from now
on you might, however, obtain a fairly
good yield of hay, as there are probably
sixty days between this date and pros
pective frost in which this crop could
grow to advantage in your section of
Georgia. AS means of soil improve
ment there is nothing better to plan on
this land at the present time than a
crop of cowpeas. The addition of sor-
ghum to it would not add materially
to its value for soil improving purposes.
If you have plenty of cowpeas on hand
we are disposed to think that you should
either break this land and seed peas
thereon, or if showers continue fire.
quent, disk the peas into the soil TO a
good depth. We have often obtained a
good stand of peas in comparatively
short time by this method and, as you
will see, with a moderate outlay of la
Dor and energy. We believe that with
pea seed on hand, which are likely to be
injured by weevil infestation before an
other season, it would pay you to plant
them for the purpose of soil improve
rnent, The peas should, of course, be
turned under in the fall just before Sc
we're frosts occur, so as to incorporate
in the soil the very considerable amount
of nitrogen, elaborated by the crop, and
which is found at certain seasons of
growth and development largely in the
leaves. There is no crop which you
could grow on the land capable of gath
ering more nitrogen in comparatively
short time and storing 1t in the soil
than peas. Under normal conditions you
understand that more or less nitrogen
would be gathered from the air, and as
this is one element in which our lands
are notably deficient it is certainly
worth while to use every means at our
command to increase the supply of it in
the soil from natural rather than artl-
fetal sources. There is nothing which
will put your land in better shape for
succeeding crop of corn or cotton than
to plant cowpeas thereon and turn them
under in the early autumn for the en-
richment of the land and the improve
ment of it's physical condition.
It is possible that when your COW was
dehorned they were not cut of close
enough to the head. When this opera
ton. is performed the horn should be
cut so as to include a little fringe of
the hair around the base of it When
the horns are cut off in warm weather
disinfectants should be used to cleanse
the horn core and they should be ap-
piled for a sufficiently long time to in
sure a proper healing of the wound. We
suppast that in the case YOU mention the
wound be thoroughly irrigated and
cleansed until in a healthy condition
through the use of solutions of any of
the coal tar dips made up in the proper
ton of one part to thirty parts Of water.
When a cure has been effected then fill
up the horn core with tar or any other
gummy, sticky substance that will keep
dirt out of It, We believe If you will
do this you will effect cure in short
time and with a moderate outlay. of
money for medicines and their use and
application.
EVE