Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-04

suggest that you use your oeans IN
this manner, and see If this Will
overcome the difficulty which you
are now experiencing.
little while on bulls. Give her fine
ly chopped up fodder which has been
run through a cutting box and SOFT
ened for few hours before It IS
water containing salt This will add
to it's palatability and will enable
the COW to more easily masticate and
assimilate it, and it will have a more
soothing effect possibly in the ali
where hulls are largely fed. DO
not feed excessively on cottonseed
meal for little while. The SUI
stitution of bran mashes for period
of week or ten days will be natUr-
ally considered good practice under
the conditions you describe.
A. B., Thayer, Mo-, writes: For some
time Ihave been looking towards the
southeast as containing large possibili-
ties for scientific agriculture
would like to know what you consider
the best way to utilize the hills, that
is for a small farm from so to 100
acres. 1t seems to me that what is
needed is good pasture grass to keep
Of live stock. Would like your advice
in the matter.
Live stock farming, as you doubt
less know, has made wonderful prog
ress in Georgia in the past few
years. For instance, the number of
hogs maintained in this state has
1913. Our holdings of cattle both
beef and dairy have also greatly in
creased. This has been brought
about in some, measure by the ad-
the production of all cotton in some
sections to a more diversified farm
practice in which greater attention
and consideration has been given to
live stock and the production of such
food crops as peanuts, velvet beans
and soy beans. In most places in
Georgia the red hills may be kept
from washing or eroding through
the use of Bermuda grass. This is
essentially a summer grazing crop.
Its period of service may be extend
ed by planting bur clover thereon
in the early summer. This is es-
sentially winter grazing corp. Low,
moist bottoms will produce carpet
very good advantage. Japan clover
seeded on Bermuda sod also i'm
proves it's value for summer grazing.
In this state hog ranching can be
practiced to excellent advantage even
On land which is rolling. Such
lands when laid off in broad ter
races and plowed deeply will not
wash badly, especially if the ter
races are kept covered with Bermuda
sod. These terraces may then be
devoted to crops which can be
grazed by hogs. If proper se}ec-
tionS are made and the planting
done at the right time various crops
will develop in succession in Geor-
gia so that hogs may be maintained
largely off of them throughout the
greater part Of the year.
Some grain must of course be
fed in order to maintain them or to
finish them satisfactorily but pork
may be made very cheaply in this
way and the land so handled that
it's fertility can be built up ana
washing or erosion reduced to
minimum.
Some Of the hill land can be de-
voted to forest projects with good
advantage as trees grow rapidly in
this section. Other billy areas may
be adapted to the growth of peaches
or other fruit trees. The bottom
land should, Of course be rotated
and cropped according to the re-
quirements and needs Of the situa-
ton. Where live stock farming is
emphasized the crops grown should
be suitable to the production Of
grain and roughage. Silage can be
made very cheaply in this state,
hence beef and dairy cattle can be
maintained at a very reasonable
cost. There are fine supplemental
crops in Georgia which can be fed
owing to our very large production
Of cottonseed meal, peanut meal and
velvet bean meal.