SaturdaTt September 17, 1110.
TIMELY TOPICS FOR STOCKMEN.
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IK WARM WEATHER, when the So. long as a ton of silage, or of
hogs are getting dry. feed, they corn stover, can N be obtained for a
may drink more water than Is cost equal to or, less than that paid
conductive to the largest gains, just for cottonseed hulls It Is poor econ
as In cold weather they may not omy for any farmer to buy hulls,
drink as much as would be best for Hulls sell for from $5 to $10 a ton
them. This may be regulated by and silage may be had at from $2 to
feeding wet feeds, but If error Is to $3 a ton and corn stover at not more
occur, probably It Is advisable that than $3 a ton, when the cost of har
they be allowed a full supply of vesting the crop, by pulling the ears
clean water. - is deducted.
Halter break Ihe colt while it is .. There is 0 longer Siy question
sucking its motner. ii youstartea about lt being cheaper, to let the
haltering It as soon as porn u .never nogs gather their feed crops than to
needed any .breaking. If .left until harve8t these crops for them. But
several months old before being nal- it must be remembered that there
tered, it will resent the confinement are differences in crops. The pas
but put on a strong halter it can not ture will furnish the cheapest feed
break -and tie it where it cannot hurt if it be tne right sort of a pasture,
itself. If left tied up this way for It is not enougn tnat there be pas
a short time, it will usually lead ture plantg in abundance. The
when released. stomach of the hog is small and he
needs plants that are rich in feed
There is no pasture plant that can nutrients." Peanuts, soy beans and
be used In the South that has the cowpeas stand first, then come the
large and general value of Bermuda clovers and other legumes used for
grass and yet It has its limitations, pastures.
It is good for hogs, as compared with '
a dry lot or a lot where everything In our territory no heed need be
else grows, except pasture plants; given to keeping sheep or other live
but no grass pasture is satisfactory stock warm, with the possible excep
tor hogs. It will lessen the feed tion of the time the young are pro
necessary to carry them along and duced, but sheep and possibly all
may even sustain them without other other animals are benefitted by quar
feedrbut it will not give satisfactory ters where they can keep dry. It is
results as a hog pasture. It supplies protection from rain and wind rather
succulence, a necessary constituent than from cold that our live stock
of any ration for any of our farm need. Perhaps a dry place to lie
animals, but richer plants will give down is all that is required in the
better results. way of shelter for our live stock.
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DAIRYING ON A SMALL FARM.
I have been following a three
year rotation with peas planted
after the corn and oats, but my
cotton dies with the wilt. What
change would you advise me to
make? About one-third of my
land (30 acres) is. partly taken
with Bermuda grass. I have
been thinking of fencing this
field and stocking with cattle.
G. E. K.
(Answer by Prof. W. F. Massey.)
On so small a place I do not think
that you can afford to depend on pas
ture. Grazing belongs to largo areas.
But you can make a small place
profitable by running a dairy and
having at all time plenty of green
" forage "toT'cut and feed to cows in
the stable, and can In this way make
a great deal of manure and improve
your farm rapidly. I 'would suppose
that you -would -havea good market
for good butter as there Is always a
scarcity of good butter in the South
ern towns. Your climate will give
you a great advantage for this sort
of work.
As cotton wilts on your land, taere
is no money for you In cotton, arid I
would devote the place to the pro
duction of forage and green feed.
You can grow some corn,' of course,
and that I would put in the silo,
Planting the corn a little closer than
you usually do for grain. That is.
Plant it in rows 4 feet apart and 10
inches In the row. Then, having a
small silo, you can put the corn into
the silo when it is beginning to
glaze. Then the peas In the corn can
be cut as wanted daily and fed to
cows in the stable, and you can sow
pats and crimson clover on this land
to September, using one bushel of
oats, and 15 pounds of clover seed
sown on after the oats are sown and
harrowed in. This will make you a
fine crop of hay, and you can follow
the oats and clover with peas, and
cut them, too. green for feeding and
what are not used in this way you !
can make - into - hay. Then follow
these peas with crimson clover alone?
to be cut and fed green in spring
&nd turned for corn. The silage and
hay will give you an abundance of
feed 'and you can soon be able to
carry a large number of cows with
only a small lot of Bermuda to turn
them on for exercise more than any
thing else. Feeding them in sum
mer the green stuff, either in this
feed lot or in stalls, and getting a
large lot of manure, you can grow
more and more feed. Mr. Dietrich,
in Pennsylvania years ago, did this
on a 15-acre farm till he finally kept
30 cows on the 15 aeres and had
more long feed than they could con
sume. In a few years you should be
able to feed fully 30 cows, and hav
ing this short rotation and a great
deal of manure, you could make all
the feed they need, and if you study
modern dairy methods and put up a
first-class article of butter you
should be able to make money on a
small place. These forage crops of
peas, oats and clover with corn silage
will be far better for you- than
grasses.
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