Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31

| among hog men. This method Arrows
hogs free access to feed at al times
and results in large and rapid gains
! 1t produces good results in tatten-
ing hogs, but should not be useo
where rapid gains are. not desired.
Use Of the self-feeder is not recon-
mended where hogs are desired to
make maximum use of grazing crops
Hogs while on grazing crops should
Gave grain, but il should be hand
fed and given in limited amounts
two pounds of grain per day per one
hundred pounds live weight: freq
luant sows, except during early preg-
nancy should not be fed by the SELL
feeder method.
Feeding cottonseed Hulls to Mules
J. L., Ashland. Ga, writes;
Will it do to feed mules cotton
seed hulls for roughness? L
want to mix the hulls with corn
fodder if it will be all right.
I Cottonseed hulls cannot be fed to
horses and mules with any degree OF
satisfaction or in large amounts.
They contain too much dirt and dust,
in the first place, and in the second
place they are relatively indtgestlble
for this class of stock, and besides
they are too bulky in proportion to
the nutrients they contain to be used
as a satisfactory substitute for corn,
serve hulls and use them with beef
and dairy cattle or some other class
of live stock rather than endeaVor
to feed them to horses and mules.
Horses and mules, as you doubt
less know. have relatively small d.
gestive systems. While they need
roughage. it must be in a sense more
concentrated than for beef and dairy
cattle. This class of animals has
four stomachs, as it were, and
therefore, they can work off and
soften and utilize large quantities Of
roughage which is comparatively
low in nutrients with considerable
advantage.
A good hay, as you doubtless know,
contains a good per cent of protein
and a considerable amount of fat and
carbohydrates. Hay, or even pulled
fodder, if properly made and cured;
is free from dust and moulds, and
this is an important matter to keep
in mind when selecting roughage
for work stock.
Finishing Steers in Sixty Days
A. J. P, Atlanta. Ga. writes:
I am thinking of feeding two
carloads of steers for sixty days.
They will weigh an average OF 500
pounds when l start feeding:
What proportion of hulls and
cottonseed meal should be led at
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riod and how should 1T be IN
creased?
Cattle may be fed for periods of
from 60 to 12O days on cottonseed
meal and hulls with considerable sue
cess and satisfaction. A ration OF
this character is very much improved
where the cattle can have some good
grass to range on, or where you can
feed them silage along with the
meal and hulls.
In starting animals out which have
not been on heavy feed you should
begin in a modest way. 1t is best
of hulls to one pound of meal. You
should give them all the hulls they
will eat up clean and digest readily.
The appetites of animals vary
good deal, and, some individuals will
eat considerably larger amounts of
not feed more than three to five
pounds of cottonseed meal to ami
mails of the size you describe while
they are on full feed. Our idea
would be to start them on about two
pounds of meal per head per day
with as much hulls as they will eat
up clean, and increase the meal say
about half a pound week. If you
desire to feed them for more than
sixty days we would not increase
the meal so rapidly, only about one
would be to put them on full feed
thirty days. before they are to be
shipped.
The overlooking of cottonseed
meal is to be avoided because it is
a very rich and concentrated food
and when fed in unduly large
amounts for a long period of time
may produce blindness in cattle.
There is no danger from feeding d
good grade of it in the proportion
indicated and for the length of time
suggested.