Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-06

| cession throughout the growing sea-
son. Oats and rye should be plant
! ed the previous autumn from about
| October 18th to 30th. Two bushels
of oat seed should be used per
acre and one bushel of rye. Broad
casting or drilling may be follow
ed in planting with preference be-
ing given to the latter method. Hogs
| should not be turned on these crops
| until they are six to ten inches
| high. In favorable seasons this may
be around December 18th. Not over
| ten hogs should be grazed on an
acre. Rape may be sown on one Of
| the plats October 18th to February
| 1st at the rate of six pounds per
| acre It should be drilled in, in rel
| atively narrow rows on land which
| has been carefully prepared. Do
not begin to Craze until it is six
to eight inches high. 1t will attain
| the growth indicated between De-
| cember 18th and April 18th. The car
rying capacity will be found to be
about ten hogs per acre. Another
| plat may be sown to millet or
| sorghum and cowpeas from April
! LIST to 18th. About a half bushel of
mil1et or sorghum and one buShel
| of peas should be used. These crops
may be broadcasted or drilled in
When they have attained a height
of eight to twelve inches grazing
may begin. This will be about June
18th. The carrying capacity will be
about ten hogs per acre.
Early maturing varieties of corn
and cowpeas or peanuts may be
planted from March 1 to IS. Use
80 of+ o51
ment of a good stand. Drill these
crops in and do not begin grazing
until they mature. which will be
about July 80. The carrying capac-
ity will be about ten hogs. per acre.
Sweet potatoes may be planted from
| May to 80. About 5000 sets should
be put out per acre, and they should
be set in hills. The crop will mature
about September 1, and will carry
about twenty hogs per acre. Corn
and velvet beans may be planted
from March Is to 80. Use plenty
of seed to insure a good stand. Drill
thes crop in and begin grazing on
September 1. It will be good idea
to have an extra large area of corn
and velvet beans. One could plant
as much as thirty-five acres addi-
tiona1 of this crop with advantage
and profit, as corn and beans will be
found a good combination to use for
the maintenance of hogs.
While hogs are grazing on cereals
such as rape, millet Or sorghum,
they should receive a limited grain
ration each day. Feed not less than
two pounds Of grain il any event,
and for each 100 pounds of addi-
| tional live weight increase the grain
ration. Almost any grain may be
used, such as corn or oats, but corn
will give the best results when COM
bined with digester tanl1age. These
materials may be put in self-feeders
In the grazing lots, and the hogs will
mix the ration for themselves to
very good advantage.
One desiring to operate on larger
basis than that indicated can in
crease the size or the number Of the
grazing plats. The, data presented
has been carefully worked out, and
represents the very best practice
which has been instituted and fol-
lowed in the raising Of hogs on graz-
ing crops. It is quite certain that
if the methods suggested are care
fully followed that cheap pork Of a
satisfactory grade can be produced.
It is considered much more desirable
from the standpoint Of the packer
to feed some grain to the animals
raised on grazing crops from the
very beginning rather than to en-
deavor to harden animals which may
be what are termed "soft" through
short, intensive period of grain
| feeding just before they are sent to
| slaughter.
| The question of "soft" pork is now
engaging the wide interest and at
tention Of our farmers. lust what
| produces it is not clearly understood
as yet, and just how to remedy the
trouble has not been determined. The
| college of agriculture, in co-opera-
ton with some of the largest packing
plants in Georgia, is working actively
along this line, and has a series of
experiments in progress designed to
aid in providing basic data on which
to predicate q practice which will
result in minimizing this trouble of
eliminating it altogether. In any
event, it is certain that hogs will
always be produced in this section
of the country on grazing crops,
and that the more care and skill
we exercise in cmobining these the
| cheaper we will be able to make
pork. Undoubtedly the southeastern
states are designed to become one of
the principal hog-raising centers of
the United States.
The Cause and Cure Of SOLDERING
| L. L. c., Pavo, Ca, writes: have
mule eight years old which seems to be
| healthy, but she slobbers at the mouth
| while working. Will this trouble be in
furious to her, and is there a remedy
| for it?
The condition which you describe
lit generally attributable to an alb
normal or excessive secretion of sa-
Iva. This trouble often arises be-
cause the teeth become worn and ir-
regular. When this occurs the mu-
cous membranes of the mouth are