Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-28

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farrowed on or after March 1, 1920,
and before September /, 1920.
Cham pions
Senior Champion Boar-The first
prize winners in the aged boar class,
the junior yearling boar class are
senior champion boar prize.
Junior Champion Boar-The first
prize winners in the senior boar pig
class and in the junior boar pig class
thea Junior champion boar prize.
Senior Champion Sow-The first
prize winners in the aged sow class
and senior .year,ling sow class and
brought together to compete efor
senior champion SOW prize.
Junior Champion Sow-The first
prize winners in the senior sow pig
are brought together to compete for
the Junior champion sow prize
Grand Champions
Grand Champion Boar-The senior
brought together to compete for the
grand champion board prize.
Grand Champion Sow-The senior
and junior champion sows are
brought together to compete for the
grand champion sow prize.
one boar and three sows narrowed
prior to September 1, 1919.
Young Herd-Young herds consist
Of one boar and three sows farrow-
ed On or after September 1, 1919.
Groups
Get of Stre-This class consists of
TOUR animals, any age, either sex, all
sired by the same boar.
Produce of Dam-This class con-
either sex, all narrowed by the same
SOW.
Raising Pigs After the Farrow-
ing Period
w. D., Americas, Ga, writes:
| wish to get all the information
! lea. can on on raising pigs from the
they should be handled and the
ration best suited for them.
When pigs are narrowed, they
should be fed for six weeks to two
months through the dam. This re-
qutres the most liberal nourishment
Of the mother animal. There is
nothing better to give the brood SOW
at this time than shorts made into
slop with skim-milk. If skim-milk
is lacking, water may be used. Corn
should only be fed in limited guam
titles and, when used, should be
mixed with digester tankage in the
proportion of ninety parts of corn to
ten parts of digester tankage.
The sow should be given the run
Of a small pasture; preferably one
which will provide her with some
green feed. In the winter, cereals
may be used for this purpose, and
in the spring and summer, Bermuda
grass and various clovers. The lot
soy beans, velvet beans, corn and
peanuts may be made to provide a
| succession of food throughout the
entire growing season
as soon as possible. They will soon
learn to gather some food Ehenl-
selves. They may receive wha lever
the dam eats. If fed for six weeks
to two months through the dam.
they should be healthier and strong
er at weaving time than if taken
away from her at an earlier date.
If pastures of. the character sug-
gested can be provided the pigs will
get plenty Of exercise and will gath
er considerable part Of the mineral
matter so essential to their welfare.
By following the methods suggested,
you should be able to grow out a
bunch of young pigs successfully
and at fairly reasonable cost.
Destroying Johnson Grass
H. L., Abbeville, Ca, writes:
I have little Johnson grass on
my farm that I would like to
get rid of. 1 have been Informed
that there is a certain cattle dip
| that will kill it. What do you
ter method?
Johnson grass is very difficult to
acter of the rhizome, Or root stalk
which is developed under the ground.
| Cultivation causes this root stalk to
sprout from a large number of the
divided by the pillow or other imple-
ment used to destroy it. On this &C.
count. the best method of destroy
ing it has been found to be through
the use of smother crops which keep
from, developing. A good crop to
of the state would be velvet beans
Cowpeas could, of course, be used if
you prefer. Planting should be done
as early in the season as weather
land thoroughly before planting
these crops, turning the Johnson
grass roots under to the greatest
depth possible You may have to
continue the use of smother crops
for several years. but we know that
this method of practice will enable
you to destroy Johnson grass be-
cause we have had to overcome the
very difficulty by which you are now
faced 1t is true that white arsenic
used in sufficient quantity to attain
the end desired, it will poison the
land so that it will be of no value
for agricultural purposes for some
considerably time TO come. The
or on the ground is also dangerous
practice. You cannot poison John
son grass effectively because Of it's
f1eshy roots and the. fact that they
are so we'll protected by a good COW
ering Of soil.
Other methods Of practice advocat-
ed for. the destruction OF Johnson
grass is to break up the land with a
shallow plow, rake out the roots with
harrow and then destroy them by
burning. Another method is to pillow
all land shallow at this season of the
year so that the freezes may help
to destroy the roots. We have not
found any of these methods as eff
fect1Ve. however, as the plan we have
suggested.
A Coed Ration for a Mule
r ": G. s. x, Gainesville, Ca,
mix sbelled corn. oats and cot
ton seed meal by measure to
make a balanced ration for
farm mule.
Under the conditions described in
yOOI IClloI we WOulu NIX JOSeIner
four hundred pounds of shelled corn,
two hundred and fifty pounds of
oats and one hundred pounds of
cottonseed meal. You can measure
these materials with sufficient ac-
| aes.-acy in sacks or in bushel meas
ures. 1t is not desirable under any
circumstances to undertake to feed
more than one and one-half to two
pounds of cottonseed meal per day
to an average sized mule weighing
between one thousand and twelve
hundred pounds. The reason for
this lies in the fact that cottonseed
meal is cry concentrated food
1t is especially rich in nitrogen.
Horses and mules need a ration con-
tanning a considerable amount Of
proteins and nitrogen; but they do
of this material and hence ration
should be adjusted to their needs
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