Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-09
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
~ DR. ANDREW M SOULE

to prove injurious to the digestive
tract. You should see, therefore, that
very wholesome feed is given and
that. your animal is watered before
feeding and worked regularly, but
not too vigorously soon after meals
Give laxative and easily digested
foods. If you have been feeding corn,
grind it up into the form Of corn
pounds of corn and cob meal 25C
pounds of ground oats. Add 10C
pounds of cottonseed meal to this
mixture and feed at the rate of ten
to fourteen pounds per day, depend,
ing on the nature and character OF
the worl, performed. A good diges.
tive tonic to feed is the following
Glauber's salts, two pounds; com
mon salt, two pounds, and baklne
soda two pounds. A heaping table,
amount to give. Previous to the use
of this tonic, we suggest that you
give the animal drenching of EPSON
salts to cleanse the alimentary canal
Keeping Slippers Off Of Sailed
Meat
w. M. N, Fort Payne, Ala,
writes: 1 would like to know the
best way Of handling meat that
is dry sailed after it is taken
up after three or four weeks SO
that shippers will not get into it,
and at the same time have the
meat stay sweet and not get a
bad taste. What do you think
of liquid smoke?
After meat has been dry cured II
must, of course, be smoked. When
the smoking has been properly ano
thoroughly completed, the hams ano
shoulders and the bacon should ther
be enclosed in heavy canvas or mus.
lin. This canvas or muslin shoulc
be treated with what is known as
yellow wash" Ordinarily, lime to
which some glue has been added may
be used in place of the yellow wash
Each piece of meat should be hung
out so that it does not come in con
tact with other pieces. 1t is mis-
Before the canvas is, put on it is
important to wrap the meat thor
oughly in heavy, parchment paper
This work cannot be done with toe
much care. The cured, covered meal
is best kept in reasonably coo coo?
from which flies are vigorously ex.
cluded. We have had no experience
with liquid meat smoke. and there
fore, cannot speak with authority
as to it's virtue. We would muct
prefer, however, to smoke meat witt
way. We believe you will get pet
ter and more satisfactory curing by
this method and we are certain II
the work is properly done that the
meat will have no unsatisfactory
flavor.
Cotton Meal in a Ration for Worl
Stock
J. T. L., Washington, Ga,
writes: I want to feed some cot
tonseed meal mixed with ear corn
and oats to my work stock
and some mule colts mixed with
ear corn and oats. Wou!d you
grind the corn, cob and all, ana
like some of the best formulas
for feeding cottonseed meal.
A verv excellent combinati fol
Won to make out of the feed YOU
have on hand is as follows: Crime
the corn, ear, cob and all: Ther
take six hundred pounds OF this mix.
ture, two hundred and fifty POUNDS
of oats and one hundred POUNDS ..
high-grade cottonseed meal and ml1
together. Under the stances
I would prefer that the oats be
ground, though this is not absolute
" necessary. After these materials
have been thoroughly intermlngleo
pounds per day pei. one thousanc
hounds of live weight. A smaller
a pu~ is to be fed when the horses
and mule are not doing heavy lapol
and a larger amount when they are
nerforming the maximum amount OF
labor. We could send you, or course
a good many formulas for com
no,inding cottonseed meal with cor!
or other grains as a food for worf
stock At the end, however, W.
would not furnish you with better
or a more desirable ration than tne
one suggested. You should o.
course, feed along with the concen
trsted portion of the ration plenty
of clean, bright hay obtained IRON
clover, mixed grasses or from I'M
proper combination Of the Varlou:
CROPS which we can produce so sue
cessfully in Georgia and make int
a satisfactory quality of hay 10
| work stock.
The Composition Of Hardwood Asl1e
C. l.. S., Oconee, Ca. writes:
Please give me the analysis OF
hardwood ashes, as I am think
| ing Of using some on my 1anu'
The composition of wood ashe
varies a good deal, depending on tn
| source from which the ashes are oo
| tanned, Hardwood ashes are rlche
| in potash than those obtained iron
| soft woods. Ashes which, have pee
| exposed to rains and leached goo
deal on that account are not nearl:
SO rich as those which have beel
protected from rain. An averag
analysis of commercial wood ashe
shows them to contain about pc
cent of potash, 2 per cent OF pnos
phoric acid and 80 per cent OF lime
Leached wood ashes, on the othe
hand h contain only about II pei, cen
Of notash. is per cent of phosphori
acid and "a per cent of lime. Ashes
If properly taken care Of and nan n
died, constitute a valuable source fego o
able effect on the physical condt
ton Of soils. The lime they. con
tain assists in promoting the devel
opment of growing crops, especial!
those belonging to the e family ia ver o
| finelv divided condition ana In al