Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-25

be- cottonseed meal a good mix
ture Of grain feeds to use is corn
and cob meal, wheat bran, ground
oats and cottonseed meal.
Following is a list of creameries
in Georgia. If you have cows that
are not making anything for you,
you should get in touch with the
| closest one to you. You are within
shipping distance Of one Of these.
Belmont Dairy company, Atlanta,
Ca; Ashburn Creamery Co., Ash
burn. Ga; Georgia-Carolina Dairy
Products Co., Augusta, Ca; Georgia
Cooperative Creamery, Athens, Ca:
Gheesling Ice Cream and Creamery
Co., Dublin, Ga; Dalton Creamery
Co., Dalton, Ga; Hawkinsville
Creamery Co., Hawkinsville, Ga;
Ezell Griffin company, Eatonton, Ca;
Creamery and Produce company,
Moultrie, Ga; Columbus Creamery
Co., Columbus, Ga; Mr.. J. K.
Murphy, Dawson, Ga.
Farm Hygiene and Sanitation
The right use of little knowledge
Of the proper care and handling of
animals used upon the farm and
the observance of a few good rules
concerning general hygiene will al
ways lessen the danger of disease
and incapacity for the performance
of work.
An effort will be made to offer
from time to time, through the
medium of this publication, such
suggestions as may be considered
timely for the benefit Of rehabilita-
ton students who are making prac-
teal application of the education
they receive while students at the
Georgia State College Of Agriculture.
Hygiene or Sanitation is a science
which points out the causes of
disease and teaches us to prevent
them by doing away with the causes
and by increasing the powers of re-
sistance Of animals to disease. So
whatever we may do to lessen the
tendency toward diseases, whether
it be to remove the causes them
selves such as applying a good dis
infectant where we suspect disease
germs to be lurking, or whether we
use intelligent measures to build up
the vitality Of animals, making them
strong of body and, therefore,
capable of successfully combating
the disease germs with which they
may come in contact. we are prac-
ticing hygiene or using the preventa-
tive methods which are so much
cheaper and satisfactory in every
way than the curative methods
that are necessary after the animal
becomes sick.
Just at this time the farmer is
getting ready to take advantage of
the first favorable weather and soil
conditions to begin his spring plow-
ing. The ground is hard because
it has been packed down by the win
ter rains. 1t should be plowed deep
ly and well loosened. He has only
enough work stock to get the work
done if he keeps them constantly at
it. They have done little through
the winter SO their muscles are
"soft." They are not physically fit
to go in and do a full days work at
the very hardest task of the whole
year. They have had no training
leading up to this unusual task. But
the thoughtless man does not con-
slider this, so when the first fine days
come he takes his horse or mule to
the field and there puts him to a
most unusual strain hour after hour
perhaps through the whole day, and
the next day, and the next. 1t ought
to occur to him that the animal is
made Of flesh just as he is and that
it is heir to the same pains and sore
ness and ills.
Perhaps the animal is a new one
on the farm. One you have never
worked before and you don't under
stand his way of working and he
doesn't understand yours. That
makes you both awkward and there
is nothing that increases the labori-
BUSINESS of task more than aWk-
Wardness.
May be the mule has been stand
ing around in shipping yards and
sales stables all winter doing no
work and getting soft" and in addi-
ton to this has, no doubt, contract
ed influenza or shipping fever"
This, of course, lowers the vitality
to a marked degree. In fact 1t
makes the animal positively weak
and unable to stand a days work.
Ought not these things to be
taken into consideration and, from
both a humane and hygienic stand
point, give the animal a chance to
work gradually into his work in the
spring and become physically &C
customed to it.
Such care may mean the saving OF
the very life of the animal. 1t is
much flesh, the i'll effects of stomach
and bowel arrangements and other
troubles that result from overWork
often accompanied by improper feed
ing.
Saving Glover Seed OH the Farm
A H. B., Washington. Ga,
writes: We plant about 125 acres
to crimson, red, sapling and
-
expense for seed runs pretty
high. We would like to save
our own seed. What is the best
method Of doing this?
There is no reason why you should
not save u good deal of clover seed
satisfactorily. Various plans of ac'
complishing this end may be lnstl
tuted There are, as you doubtless
know, clover threshing machines,
These, of course, necessitate the out
lay of several hundred dollars, and
probably their use is only practlc-
able and desirable on farms where
the production of clover seed is 2.
special industry. In many sections
of the country crops of the character
you mention are allowed to prac-
tically m1ture themselves, and are
then cut down and the resulting hay
raked up and cured in shocks and
later threshed out in the barn.
In case you do not wish to han
die your crop in this manner YOU
| ran proceed as follows: Either mike
a homemade comb stripper or
hand striprer. A homemade STRIP
per can be mounted on pair of old
buggy wheels to which shafts have
|
be set about four feet apart so as
to permit Of the actual stripper be-
ing made three feet apart. The teeth
attached to the stripper should be
about one and one-quarter inches
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