The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-04-07
NOW is THE TIME
TO FIGURE ON FEED
AMPLE PROVISION SHOULD
BE MADE FOR PIGS, COWS
AND CHICKENS IN WINTER.

Winter has a habit of coming about
once a wear and spring time is the sea-
son in which to prepare Tor 1t. Now
is the time to figure how many acres
of corn. oats, soy beans and hay VIII
be needed to produce iced Tor those
pigs and cows and chickens during
the winter of lo25-26 1t is worse than
useless to try to starve live stock
through the winter. Probably more
promising dairy calves and heifers have
their chances spoiled OF becoming
heavv-producing and well-developed
cows by being hali-fed and exposed
during their first and second winters
than in any other way.
The farmer who complains that
there is no money in live stock is al
most invariably the one who skimps
on feed And the farmer who skimps
on feed is usually the one who buys
most of his feed for if he raised his
feed he would have enough OF it to
feed right. Live stock profits do not
come from feeding animals nor
do they come to the man who does
not raise most OF his feed stuffs.
1t IS usually a safe plan in figuring
ones feed needs on swine to plan to
use at least three bushels OF corn per
month for each brood sow or other
large hog. The shoats and pigs will
take proportionately less, and will
average about two bushels or less
each month in their needs. 1t is also
we'll to plan on feeding young grow
ing pigs and shoats about pound per
day Cor a bushel per month"; OF oats,
Soy beans can be used to advantage
TO balance up the ration for pigs or
grown sows or one may buy digester
tankage for this purpose. Skim milk
is even better than beans or tankage.
For Dairy Cattle.
For dairy cattle one should first of
all figure on having plenty OF good
legume hay. Alfalfa, soy beans and
COW peas are all excellent for this
use. One should figure on feeding
about twelve pounds of good legumi-
nous hay per head each day to aver
age dairy heifers about a year to a !
year and half old. This means that
a ton of such hay will last such a
heller for five and half months, or
more than enough to last heller
through winter of four months when
grazing is not easily obtained. The
average grown dairy COW will need
about fifteen to eighteen pounds OF
good hay daily while producing milk, |
In other words, one ton of good hay
will last such COW about four months. |
The dairy heller will need in addi
ton to hay about two pounds OF grain
a day This may consist OF a mixture
of such feeds as corn, oats, soy beans, |
velvet beans, peanut meal, bran or
other good feeds Cotton seed meal is |
not advisable for calves or young
heifers, but is splendid feed for cows
and older heifers. The mature cow
that is producing milk should receive
about one pound of feed to every three
pounds of milk she produces, in addi-
ton to the hay she gets. This means
that three gallon per day COW should
get about pounds of grain feed day. |
From the above estimates it should
be possible to figure about how much |
acreage to plant in each of the vari-
Gus needed crops for feeding ones !
live stock The temptation is always |
strong to plant most of ones land in |
some cash crop such as cotton or to-
bacco. But remember that piss and
cows are now as reliable money-bring |
ers as cotton and tobacco and should
be considered as true cash crops. Why |
not give them real trial? A half !
hearted effort with poor stock and in
sufficient feed is not a fair trial, but
we believe that proper trial will con-
vince even the skeptical that the cow,
the sow and the hen should be given
a more important place in our south !
ern agriculture. F. R EDWARDS.
Animal Husbandman, Georgia Ex-
pertinent Station.