Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-04
to be added to these foodstuffs
to make a good ration for mules
doing hard road work and how
much should be fed per day?

to be added to these foodstuffs
to make a good ration for mules
doing hard road work and how
much should be fed per day?
The feeding value of peanuts both
in the hay and straw has been work
ed out completely Peanut vines to
which the nuts are attached contain
90 per cent of digestlble protein
and 8.3 per cent of digestible fat.
The vines without the nuts contain
6.8 per cent of digestible protein and
80 per cent of digestible fat. The
vines, if combined with other rough
age, would make far more satlstac-
tory hay than the peanut vines with
the nuts attached. You will observe
that the peanut vines contain about
the same percentage of digestible
protein as various other hays and it
is also relatively low in fat. The
peanut vines with the nuts attached
contain higher protein percentage
than is desirable to feed the work
stock, and they contain far more fat
that would prove desirable in the
dietary of this class of stock. 1t
would be difficult to compare peanuts
and shelled corn satisfactorily be-
cause the crops are so essentially diff
ferent in all respects and in the pur-
poses that help in the nutrition of
animals.
You can make a very excellent
roughage ration for work stock by
combining two-thirds shelled corn
stover with one-third chopped peanut
vine hay. You may use sorghum,
forage crop in place Of the shelled
corn slower. This material, when
chopped up fine should be moistened
with water containing little salt
tendency of dusty hays to produce
irritation of the bronchial tubes in
work stock. You might feed as much
of this hay as will be eaten up
readily. This will not exceed about
fifteen pounds per head per day per
If the mules will eat little more, it
will be all right to let them have
it.
A good grain ration may be made
up to say five or six hundred pounds
of corn or corn and cob meal. If
be ground and made fine. To this
add two hundred an fifty pounds of
whole or chopped oats and one hun
dred pounds of peanut meal from
| which the hulls have been exclued.
Horses and mules have relatively
require richer and more concentrat-
ed feeds than some other classes of
| live stock. A mixture made up in
the proportion indicated will pro-
vide an excellent ration for work ami
mails. This ration can be fed with
safety. Fifteen pounds per head per
day should be an abundance of it to
feed. We would give this in two or
three equal parts.
! Hay made from cowpeas contains
about 10 per cent of digestible pro-
tein. II will vary according to the
a richer feed in protein than peanut
vine hay. Zone should not feed too
much Of it to work stock. Horses
and mules may suffer from azoturia
at times. This is brought about by
surfeiting the animals with nitrogen.
constitute more than one-third or
one-fourth of the rughage ration of
horses and mules. The smaller
amount should be used where long
continued feeding of pea vine hay is
! contemplated.
Seeding Oats in the Fall
G. w. M, Thomaston, Ga,
writes: / would like information
| relative to the planting and Gull
tiSaLiOn of cats ard the best kind
to plant for feeding purposes.
How much seed should be used
and how should they be fertil-
lied?
In our experience the best method
Of land preparation to follow with
oats has varied considerably with a
| season. In some years one can disc
| in the oats successfully, in other
years they may be sown on land
| which has been devted to peas in
| open burrows. AS rule, we have
| had the best results from breaking
| the land and working it down into a
| fine condition before planting.
Oats like a rather fine seed bed.
| We are somewhat partial to the
| open furrow method. We would at
| least wish to use a grain drill.
| Plant the oats rather deep, and use