Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04

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Storing Dry Salt Cured Meat
| M e. S.. Camden, S. c., writes:
| Will it injure dry salt, cured meat
to pack it in dry oak ashes?
| am anxious to be able to keep my
| meat and would 44he your advice
| in the matter.
| Dry salt cured meat should be
| smoked before it is put away to keep
| for summer use. After the dry cur
tlg is accomplished, you should pro
| coed in the handling of this meat as
| if it were brine cured. In other
words. when taken out Of the dry
cure, hang it up f., for two Hoo or thr e
your taste. 1t will take some days
| t. accomplish this process. YOU
| ST oulG, of course, use either hickory
or some form of hardwood. If no
hardwood is available, corn cobs will
answer. Smoke every second or third
| Then take the meat down, wrap it Sc
| curely in heavy paper and cover it
with burlap or canvas and hang it in
a cool, dry place to keep. Flies
should be kept away from the meat
| and as nearly q uniform temperature
| as possible should be retained. A
eocd plan after covering the meat
with paper and wrapping it with bur
| lap or canvas as indicated IS to paint
| it with lime wash to which a little
A Good Concentrated Ration for
Work Stock
T. F. H, Rydal, Ga, writes:
l wish to know if I can feed
corn and oats and cotton seed
| meal to work mules and what
proportion each should be used
| in mixing them? How much
should be fed to a mule that
will weigh about 500 pounds?
The best proportion in which to
mix corn and cob meal, oats and
| cottonseed meal used in preparing a
| ration for mules is as follows:
Take six hundred pounds of the
| corn and cob meal, two hundred and
| fifty pounds of the whole or ground
tonseed meal. These should be
thoroughly mixed by means Of a
shovel. Then feed this mixture on
| the basis of the animals live weight
which you very likely already know
or can closely approximate. For a
work, the. basis would be fifteen
pounds, of this mixture. Animals
under this weight should receive
less, and those over this weight
more. These concentrates should be
fed in combination with twelve to
bright hay or pulled fodder. When
mule is staying in the stable and
doing virtually no work, the ration
should be cut down materially.
The Desirabil1ty of the Tubercu1in
Test
J. o. M, FELTON,, Ca, writes:
Will you please give me some
information on the tuberculin
test for cows, and if. you think
it is necessary? Any sugges-
tons On how to make good milk
and butter will be appreciated.
The consensus of opinion leads to
the conclusion that tuberculin is a
remarkably accurate means of ascer-
tanning if an animal is affected with
tuberculosis. The use of this test
will not in any way impair the
most certain and definite method
available of detecting and thereby
making possible the removal from the
herd of diseased animals. If this is
municable disease is likely to spread
rapidly through a given herd Of cat
tie. One having any considerable
number of animals on his farm
should have them tested as a means
of self-protection If for no higher
motive.
In feeding dairy cows to promote
rapid and uniform flow Of milk,
one should provide Immediately or
as soon as practicable an abundance
Of silage to feed at those seasons of
the year when grass is not avail
able. Then feed a concentrated "a
ton in proportion to the need and
requirements of the individual ami
mails concerned consisting of one
third to one-half corn or corn and
cob meal and one-third to one-half of
velvet meal, peanut meal or cot
part of the corn meal with bran to
advantage. Keep the stables in a
sanitary condition, milk with clean
hands, aerate the milk and remove it
from the stable as soon as possible.
These suggestions, If followed,
should give you an abundance of
high grade milk.
In making butter, it is best to
skim milk with a cream separator.
The cream should then be ripened
it shows mildly acid flavor, churn
it in stone or wooden churn. When
the butter gathers into granules.
stop churning, draw off the butter
milk, wash the butter and allow it
to stand in this condition for a little
cold place. Salt it according to
taste and work and pack it the fol-
lowing day.
The Merits OF Varieties Of Grasses
j. j. Y, Douglas, Ga, writes.
would like information as to the
different kind of grasses to use
for grazing cattle. What variety
spring until frost? What do
You think Of Johnson grass?
want to sod pasture for dairy
cattle and any suggestions will
be appreciated.
In your section of the state we
imagine the best grasses for grazing
purposes would be some of the pas
palums or Louisiana carpet grass
These grasses are found more or
less extensively in the southern half
of Georgia and they seem to be the
for your section. The paspalums do
especially we'll on low, moist bot
tom lands. 1t has been difficult up
to this time to obtain seed in any
considerable quantities, but probably
In purchasing seed of this character
you should deal only with reliable
concerns who are in position to fur :
nish you with good grade of seed.
value to you in certain locations. Of
course, 1t may not live well on GER
tain soil types in your section.
Johnson grass may be of some value
for grazing or hay making purposes.
put there is an objection to its use
graduating it from land where it
has once established itself. More
over, when it is seeded on one sec
| ton of land it will, on account of the
freedom with which it seeds, spread
out to other areas of land and soon
all your farm will be more or less
covered with this grass. The seed
will also be distributed in drainage
waters and scatter throughout your
county.
On low, moist bottoms you can
also possibly grow red top to some
advantage and possibly some Of the
other tame grasses will be found Of
value as we'll. We think, however,
the first two mentioned Affer the