Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-02

cowpeas or soy beans must be leafy
and the sorghum must be fine, Of
| good color, sound, and well baled.
No. 2. Shall be cowpeas or soy
beans mixed with over so per cent
Of sorghum orr crab grass, Of fair
color, reasonably leafy and fine,
sound, and we'll baled.
No. 3. Shall be cowpeas or soy
beans and sorghum, with about rs
per cent of sorghum or crab grass.
1t may be stained and may contain
a considerable proportion Of native
grasses, sound. and well baled.
v. Cereal or Grain Hay
mixture of the two, of bright color
of greenish cast, sound. and well
baled.
No. 2. Shall be wheat or oats, or
a mixture Of the two, or not more
than so per cent Of rye with either
one or mixture Of the two, of,
straw color, not overripe, sound, and
well baled.
No. 3. Shall be wheat, oats, or
rye. or a mixture Of the three. 1t
may be somewhat stained, but must
be sound and well baled.
No. /. Shall meet the require
ments of No. 1 cereal hay, and
shall contain not less than rs per
cent of vetch.
No. 2. Shall meet the require.
ments Of No. 2 cereal hay, and shall
contain not less than Is per cent Of
Vetch.
No. 8. Shall meet the require.
mo rs Of 10
contain not less than per cent of
vetch.
Handling Market Hogs in Summer
For many years an effort has been
made to encourage our farmers here
IN the south to finish more hogs for
market in the summer. The rea-
sons for this are so obvious that it
is hardly necessary to detail them.
The time to ship hogs, as with all
Fother farm products, is at that sea-
son when the market is most bare
of supplies. For some reason or
other very little attention has been
given to the finishing of hogs for
the summer market, and so the CD.
portunity to obtain maximum prices
has not been taken advantage of by
our farmers as it should have been.
On the other hand, shipping hogs
during hot weather is matter
fraught with some danger. There
are many points which should be
guarded against carefully.
Cooperative hog sales have been
promoted successfully in Georgia.
Those who have been associated with
this enterprise have had good
chance to observe how hogs should
be handled when marketed during
the summer months. Prof. M. c..
Gay, state agent in marketing, Geor-
gla State College of Agriculture, has
the following suggestions to offer
along this line.
A great many more hogs are be.
Ing marketed in this state during
the summer months now than for
merly. This is as should be for
the simple reason that the southern
markets are more nearly in line with
the big markets during the summer
months than in the winter. We
should further adjust our hog pro.
duclng program so as to more evenly
distribute the volume of hogs com.
ing to market throughout the wear.
by doing this, we can relieve the
congestion in the markets which al.
ways takes place in the winter
months. This should enable us to
get better prices at that time, and
would also help the packers to Sc
cure steady supply for their plants
during the summer months.
In handling hogs in hot weather.
number of precautions are neces-
sary. Many losses occur if the ami
mails are handled carelessly. Hogs
lost from overheating are practically
total loss to humanity, and the
money lost, in most cases, falls upon
the grower. BY observing a few
essentials, the losses can be reduc-
cd to almost nothing. In the first
place. hogs going to market in sum.
mer should be fed heavily Just be-,
lore being loaded on the wagons.
they should be driven up into
rather small Enclosure the night be-
lore the sale so that they will not
nave to be unduly exercised in load.
ing onto the wagons. Before load.
ing, cover the bottom of the wagon
body three or four inches deep with
sand. Then wet this Thoroughly.
Avoid overlooking the wagon. Also
provide plenty of ventilation in sides
and top of the wagon body.
Before unloading animals. the
pens in which they are to be held
until shipped should be Thoroughly
wet, and plenty of clean drinking