Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
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~ 49, AND SUCCESSFUL FARMING
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ANp SUCCESSFUL FARMING

circumstances Vii. probably mean
the saving of the :rop, while neg
lect is almost certain to result IN
its complete destruction.
Where one is growing beans in the
garden, manipulating as soon as the
beetle energies from Information
should be vigorously pursued This
can be accomplished. know. because
this beetle does about the same kind
of damage as the Colorado beetle to
the Irish potato. If one picks and
destroys the potato bugs when they
necessary to spray the potatoes, but
if they are allowed to get a start.
then it will take a vigorous and
iong-continued fight to hold them
weather. the beetles and the larvae
n particular should be brushed or
knocked off the young plants. This
will result in thousands of them be-
ing destroyed before they can get
back on the bean stalks. One should
clean up weeds and trash of all
kinds. Do not leave the beetle in
quarters in which it can hibernate
successfully during the fall and win
ter months. While burning is not to
be generally recommended, it may be
necessary from time to time in or
der to insure the prompt and com
plete destruction of these weevils.
Where plants are badly infested,
they may be sprayed with arsenate
Of lime or arsenate of zinc. These
materials may be used at the rate
Of one and a quarter pounds to fifty
gallons of water. Where arSenate Of
lead is used, two pounds should be
dissolved in fifty gallons of water.
Making a Mixed Feed>et Home
J. E. D., cambridge, Ca,
uritncs hoUa WIT
of velvet beans and field peas in
the hull, corn in the ear, and
bagasse. I wish to grind this
up and feed. to cattle and mules.
Please tell me in what proper
ton I should mix them for a
good standard feed.
There are almost innumerable
ways in which food such as you de-
scribe could be mixed together and
Iproduce fairly satisfactory ration
for cattle and mules. You should
bear in mind that the requirements
of cattle and mules are different.
Cattle being Eliminating animals can
consume and utilize much larger
quantities of coarse rough fodder
than mules. The digestive organs
of mules are much smaller than
those of cattle; hence they must
have a more concentrated ration In
preparing a ration for cattle I would
proceed as follows: Take 900 pounds
of corn in the ear; add to it 400
pounds of velvet beans in the hulls !;
grind these together and mix with
an equal weight of bagasse. I pre-
sumo the bagasse is dried out or
mixture each day in order to keep
it from souring and fermenting. The
best thing for you to do with ba-
gasse would be to run it into the
silo; then you could keep it in a
succuSent condition and feed as much
Of it to your cattle as they would
eat up daily with enough of the
mixed grain ration outlined above to
meet their requirements. If you de-
sire only to carry the cattle through
the winter, then about four pounds
Of the above mixture of grain with
as much bagasse as they. will eat up
clean should be sufficient amount
of concentrates to use for mainten-
ance purposes. On the other hand,
If you wish to finish them off. or if
you are feeding dairy cows, then
you should feed from IL to 16 pounds
of the foregoing grain mixture. On
account of the corn husks and cob
and the vines and hulls of the beans
this would only be equivalent to
feeding about 6 to 8 pounds of grain
1t is Of course expected that the
amounts of grain indicated will be
fed in proportion to the live weight
Of the animals. ALI rations as rec
commended are on the basis of 1000
pounds of live weight. If the ami
mails weigh less smaller proportion
should Beg fed, and if they weigh
more a Arger amount should be
used.
In the case Of mules we do not
think you will find bagasse very
satisfactory as form of roughage.
Shredded corn slower, mixed peavine
and millet or sorghum hay, and hay
from tame grasses which you may
have cut and stored will prove far
more satisfactory to use with this
class of live stock, You should give
your work stock all of this rough
age they will eat up and clean and
then feed them a mixture of grain
made up as follows: Corn in the ear
700 pounds; velvet bean meal, 300
pounds. The amount of this mix
ture to use will vary from IL to 16
pounds. per day, depending on the
age and size of your mules and the
character Of work they are doing.
When they are at hard work give
the larger amount, and when they
are standing idle not over 10 to IL
pounds need be used.