Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-24
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
az DR.. ANDREW M. SOULE


| ty of dry roughage for the main
tenance of dairy cows.
Preparing Standard Stock Foods
c.. II. K, Dublin, Ga, writes:
I would like to have formula
for making horse, cow and hog
feed out of corn meal, bean meal
and oats. Would also like to
know the fertilizing value of vel
vet bean, ground hull and all.
Also any suggestions you can
give me as to various formulas
containing potash, acid and nj
tTate of soda.
think you can prepare a fairly
good horse and mule feed by pro-
ceeding as follows: Mix 1000 pounds
of corn and cob meal, 700 pounds OF
seed meal and so pounds of salt
You can of course use velvet bean
meal as horse and mule feed, but
when you do this, you will need to
use the hulled beans. Our obserVa-
ton and experience lead us to the
conclusion that the velvet bean hull
is so hard and full of fiber that 1t
does not make a satisfactory food
for horses and mules. If the bean
bulls are used at all very fine grind
ing is essential because it has been
demonstrate that the hulls will. cut
and irritate the intestines of certain
classes of live stock and may even
produce death if fed too long, par
ticularly to young animals. Inc
hulled beans when we'll ground can
meal, but they would lower the pro-
tein, content of your ration to
greater degree than is desirable. On
that account I have suggested the
above ration. You could put in place
of the cotton seed meal $50 pounds
of peanut meal made from hulled
nuts, If you prefer.
A good hog feed might be pre-
pared by mixing together 975 pounds
of velvet bean meal from which the
hulls have been excluded, 975 pounds
of finely ground corn cob meal and
to leave the cobs out of the corn
meal for hogs, and this will be par
tlcularly true in case this mixture
were fed to young pigs. For dairy
cows, mix together 1000 pounds of
velvet bean meal, 500 pounds of cot
ton seed meal, $50 pounds of corn
and cob meal and so pounds Of salt.
For steers, a mixture of 1000 pounds
of velvet bean meal, 700 pounds of
corn and cob meal, ESQ pounds of cot
should answer very well. You may
replace the cotton seed meal with a
good grade of peanut meal if you so
desire.
These standard rations which could
be fed acceptably and with advan-
tage to the different classes of live
stock maintained on our farms.
should Of course be, fed along with
fairly liberal ration of roughage
obtained from pulled fodder, peavine
and sorghum hay, millet or horghum
hay, cereal hay and either wild or
mixed tame hay. The feeder Of dairy
and beef cattle would of course use
should be made available, and in the
case of work stock, it would be best
to chop the roughage up and moisten
with water containing a little salt.
The fertilizing value of velvet
beans where the hull is ground in
with them is as follows: Nitrogen
per ton approximately 56.S pounds.
phosphoric acid, 16 pounds, potash,
34.4 pounds. Roughly, a ton of vel
about one-half as much nitrogen as
ton of cotton seed meal as ordi-
narily sold on our markets, about
one-third as much phosphoric acid
and practically the same amount OF
potash.
There are a great variety of fer
tilizer formulas which could be used
to advantage in your section of the
state. 1t is difficult to determine
just what to suggest unless we had
definite information about the crops
you wish to plant and the types OF
soil on which you expect to grow
them. For the Triton sandy loan
which is the red pebble land of south
Georgia, we would think about Il
to per cent Of nitrogen should be
used under cotton and corn, 8 to 8
per cent of phosphoric acid and pref
erably 3 to per cent Of potash
AS the lands become sander, we
would advise an increase in the nitro
gen, phosphoric acid and potash. We
believe that minimum applications
of three hundred pounds should be
profitable. On land which has been
well prepared and broken to a\good
depth and which contains fail
amount of vegetable matter, four to
six hundred pounds can be used with
profit. Under truck crops, heavier
applications will no doubt prove
prOfit9 hle