Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-18

! will be comparatively easy. If the
animal has not been handled up to
yearling, it will be more trouble
some. The best way is to make a
! strong rope halter, put it on the calf
and tie it up snugly to post. Leave
it. tied until ceases to struggle ard
is thoroughly convinced that it can
not break loose. After it has been
allowed to fight and struggle at the
! halter until it gives up, the task of
| teaching it to lead will be much
easier. Do not fret or worry the
calf or abuse it in any way, but be
patient. BY gentle handling teach it
what is to be done. After fifteen
minutes handling night and morning
! for a few days the average calf
can easily be led around. After this
is done it should be frequently
battered and led. Above all things,
teach it to stand squarely on it's feet,
with the feet placed we'll apart. The
| beel calves especially do not need
currying and grooming, but they
an abundance of bedding and a dry,
comfortable place to lie down. With
| the dairy calves a reasonable amount
of brushing will improve their coats:
Two or three weeks before the calf
is to be shown it would be well to
clip it to the knees and hooks SO as
to give it little neater appearance
| in the bone. This clipping should be
so skillfully done that it will not
show where the clipping stopped.
at the tail head that should be clip
ped off so as to give the animal
u leveler appearance in the hindquar-
ters. With the dairy calves it would
| be we'll to clip the long hair out of
the ears. More trimming, than this
Snowman, but it would hardly be
! wise for the Calf club members to at
| tempt any more in this direction. If
the beef calves have a sufficient coat
of hair it would be well to curl it
| before they are shown. Where calves
are old enough for the horns to be
fairly we'll developed they should be
| scraped with glass or a mechanics
tool, then dressed first with fairly
coarse sand paper, then the finest
| tanned. They should then be pol
ished with any standard metal poll
ish. For best results the horns
should be thoroughly polished once
a, week for six weeks before the
| No. calf should be shown that has
i not been thoroughly washed Any
good quality of toilet scrap will be
! satisfactory for this purpose. CASTLE
| is the best soap. In order to be
sure that the coats are thoroughly
clean, they should have two Or thle
| WaShingS a week apart Just before
show tine. If the weather is chilly
or windy, the calves should be put
IN protected stall until they are
| thoroughly dry.
Curing Georgia Grown Tobacco
T. B. B., Madison, Ga, writes:
Is there any satisfactory meth
| cd of curing Georgia-grown to-
proved most successful? Any
information you can give me in
regard to growing and curing
tobacco will be appreciated.
There is no reason why tobacco
should not be cured successfully in
have accomplished that end sue
cessfully this year. The college of
agriculture, through it's extension
division, has furnished a large num-
Der of plans for tobacco barns of an
approved type which might be built
by local corporations at a reasonable
cost
Our tobacco crop this year will
approximate something like $4,000.
600 pounds, though in 1918 it only
amounted to 2,668,000 pounds. The
some years ago to demonstrate that
there were good tobacco soils in
Georgia. This was doubted by many
but our analysis and examinations of
| these soils showed that our belief
was correct. Our work so far has
been confined primarily to the Guilt
walton of bright leaf or f1ue-cured to-
bacco. The counties having the larg-
est acreages are Coffee, Wilcox, Ber-
rien, Ben Hill, Tiff. Irwin. Turner
and Jeff Davis. There are tobacco
markets at quite number of points
, in south Georgia.
The best type Of soil for the cul-
tivation Of 1ue-cured tobacco Is a
sandy loan with porous subsoil
| Bright tobacco has not yet been sue
cessfully grown in north Georgia.
There are types of dark tobacco
which might be grown successfully,
however. in this section of the state
and there is no reason why you
should not grow them in Morgan
| county. Great care should be given
to the preparation of tobacco soil,
especially where light or f1ue-cured
| tobacco is to be grown. A rather
thin type of soil is best adapted to
fertilizer should be used. The ex-
| cessive use of a heterogeneous ferti-
lizer is to be avoided. AS rule,
! about 93-3 will suit very we'll when
! applied at the rate Of 500 to 1000
pounds per acre. Dried blood and
sources of nitrogen. AS rule, sui
plate of potash may be used as a
carrier of potash, because kainit and
muriate contain large quantities of
chlorin, which has a tendency to
make tobacco burn poorly. Ferti-
piled in the row. The rows should
| be made four feet apart and the fer
| tilizers applied with a distributor.
| The fertilizer should be thoroughly
mixed with the soil. A second ap-
plication of fertilizer is not as a
| rule advisable.
| Some people advocate the use Of
yard manure or green crops turned
under. AS rule. materials Of this
| kind should be applied to the land
the year before it is to be devoted
| to the cultivation Of light tobacco.
be done any ti21e from April to
April so, pending on the section
where it is to be cultivated. The
later date would, of course, be pref
cradle in north Georgia. The plants
may be set out by hand or by ma
chinery. The earth, should be, firmly
pressed in about the roots, leaving
the bud Of the plant just above the
surface of the ground. Early, rapi
| and thorough cultivation Is neces-
sary, and insect enemies must be
fought vigorously.
Topping, suckering and harvesting
must be given prompt and careful
which must be carried out very care
| fully.
A Good Combination Grain Ra-
ton for Hogs
P. G. w, Covington, Ca,
writes: am desir GUS of feeding
hogs on wheat shorts and en-
meal 1 would like to know the
proper proportion in which to
mix these ingredients to be used
as a fattening ration.
In feeding cottonseed meal to hogs
not over one-fifth or one-sixth of the
ration should be made up of this
particular element. In other words,
you should feed five parts of corn
meal say to one part cottonseed meal,
or as you prefer you might MAKE