Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-01

! OF course there are all kinds of
COWS in the world just as there are
all sorts of human beings. There are
| some that are good and some that
are bad. There are some that are
willing workers and there are some
that are drones. There are some that
require twice as much food to produce
| given amount of milk as others.
There are some that have the ma
| ternal instinct so strongly liked IN
| them that they yield seemingly
| impossible amount of milk and keep
up the flow far more persistently
| than others. On the other hand,
many COW has fallen into the
hands of a human being which was
good animal naturally and could
boys and girls on the farm or in
the city to which she was destined
to supply milk if the owner had only
had a different idea about her make
up and the needs and requirements
of her system and the imposslb1llty
of her yielding milk Of fixed COM
position out of other than the mate
rails in the food with which he sup
piled her.
A two-gallon cow is not such a
hard thing to find. and by that I
mean an animal that will give two
gallons Of milk for at least 800 to
$50 days of every year. Any COW
that will do this is an exceptionally
desirable animal, and if she is to
give that two gallons of milk we
might as we'll sit down now and fig
ure out with paper and pencil what
we will have to feed her IF she is
to perform her part of the work sat
isfactorily. Remember that there are
two things which cow INST 60:
Keep her body alive and functioning
and then supply a surplus of food
for human beings. We must feed
a. COW, therefore, for maintenance
and for production. And now that
we know so much, relatively speak
ing, about the food requirements of
not be such difficult thing to make
up ration that will enable good
cow to do her part of the job on
the dairy farm. One would, of coursev
feed all the silage the cow wanted,
along with a ration made up of such
concentrates as are available on the
average farm or may be purchased.
The cow has four stomachs and a
huge capacity for eating and digest
ing and working over coarse folders.
She needs a lot of roughage, such as
corn stalks and sorghum, peavines,
alfalfa, clover, vetches and straw ce-
reals provide. But in addition to
specialized product, she must have
plenty of concentrates to balance up
the deficiencies of the coarse folders
enumerated. So as a rule, COW
weighing 1000 pounds and giving
two gallons and upward of milk per
day should be fed, we will say, a con-
centrated ration as we'll as a rough
age ration. This concentrated ra-
ton should be provided on the basis
of at least one pound of concentrates
per 100 pounds of live weight. Many
factors enter into the consideration
49, III chr
used In the south cottonseed meal
will naturally furnish the basis OF
this part of the diet. Do not feed,
however, say over five pounds per
head per day to the average COW, be-
cause this material contains about
tein as wheat bran. To get the best
results feed one-third to two-thirds
cottonseed meal with one-third to
two-thirds wheat bran. Or one may
feed corn meal in place of wheat
bran, or velvet bean meal may be
substituted for wheat bran, or one
may make a mixture of one-third
cottonseed meal, one-third velvet
bean meal and one-third corn meal
or bran. Oats may be used for the
dairy COW, and peanut meal may be
made the basis Of any concentrated
ration. Peanut meal or a good grade
will take the place of cottonseed
meal and it may also be fed in as
sociation with bran, oats, corn or
velvet bean meal. In a state which
produces all these crops in more or
less profusion there is no trouble
about providing the COW with all the
concentrates needed to enable her to
make two gallons of milk per dag.
If we do this, and then give her
an acceptable roughage ration, keep
her in reasonably comfortable quar-
ters, protect her from rains and cold
weather, and milk and feed her reg
ularly, she will do her part and it
will not be a difficult matter to Sc
cure from her that two gallons per
day of the most ideal and desirable
food known to human beings.
Fertilizers Adapted for Use With
Legumes
Fl. HI ,.Richland, Ca, writes:
What is the best fertilizer to use
on corn, peanuts, coWpeas and
soy beans? How much will 100
pounds of fertilizer increase the
yield of these crops? Which
takes the most nitrogen from the
air-cow peas or soy, beans?
There are many conditions which
affect crops. In season when rain
fall is we'll distributed and rational
fertilization has followed one might
secure twice as many bushels of
soy beans from an acre Of land as
in an infavorable season. We have