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□ LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. □
TIMELY TOPICS FOR STOCKMEN.
THE SILO HAS a very great value
apart from furnishing succu
lent feed, at the least cost, dur
ing the winter months, it will pay
the average dairyman to keep silage
for supplementing the pastures dur
ing dry spells when pastures become
short and dried up.
• • •
The churns that get butter in from
;t to 10 minutes are a delusion and
a snare. There is too great a loss
of butter fat and butter of quality
Is out of the question.
• • •
If the butter comes in less than
30 minutes of churning, the temper
ature is probably too high and there
is a loss of butter fat in the butter
milk and the qunllty of the butter
is not so good.
• • •
The temperature at which the
cream should be churned will vary
according to the character of the
feed, the length of time the cows
have been milking and other causes,
but from 60 to 65 degrees may be
regarded ns generally about right.
Why not use a thermometer, which
can be bought for 40 or 50 cents?
This is not beyond the reach of the
farmer's wife making a pound or two
of butter a day.
• • •
Dairy cleanliness means some
thing more than kitchen clean
liness. To be clean from the dairy
standpoint is to approach what the
bacteriologist means by sterilization.
The vessels must not only be well
washed out with tepid water but
must also be scalded out and dried
in the sun. Do not use soap and a
dishrag on the milk vessels—use a
good washing powder or sal soda
and a brush. Dishrags are gener- 1
ally filthy and have no place in the
dairy.
• • •
For many years to come the mule
will remain the chief draft animal
of the South. If this be true, then
we should aim to produce the best |
mules. To do this, we must have
heavier mares. We can not go above i
1,000 pounds in the jack and get ]
good quality, but the same or less
weight cannot be depended upon to ,
produce high priced mules. We
must, therefore, increase the size of ,
our mares. To do this draft blood ,
must be used. No others have suffi
cient size.
• * •
No colt can eat enough grass hay
and corn to make the bone and mus
cle his inheritance entitles him to.
To make size—bone and muscle—
the colt needs more protein than
corn and corn fodder or grass hay
contain. It matters not how much
of these feeds be given, the average
colt can not digest enough of them
to supply the bone- and muscle-mak
ing materials required. Live stock
fall to grow as large in the South as
elsewhere simply for a lack of suffi
cient feed of the right sort.
WHY KXSILACJE SI»OII,S AROUND
Tin: HDGB8.
Mr A. M. Worden. In his “Letters
of nn Old Farmer to His Son." writes
ns follows:
"You wrote that you had a small
amount of ensilage next to outside
walla of silo to spoil last season. As
your silo is of cypress, unpainted,
the cause Is not lack of roof, ns you
thought, but likely was caused by
the bare wood absorbing moisture
that should have been left In the
feed to preserve It.
"The remedy is to tighten up the
hoops, closing the joints tighter, and
then paint the silo inside and out
with a gootl roof paint. Have the
anils dry and clean, then mix to
each live gallons of good gas tar
(coal tnr) one gallon of plnolene (or
wood creosote), *-i» pound of bicar
bonate of soda (or 2 pounds of quick
lime slaked and sifted dry, in place
of soda), and melt and mix with the
hot tnr 3 pounds of resin; mix well
and apply hot inside and out. This
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will IllltHf* H HUUU WWUU ....V.
preservative, and stops the wood ab
sorbing the moisture from the en
silage, also preventing air from en
tering through small Joints, as that
spoils the ensilage rapidly. This also
makes a tine roof paint at a small
fraction of the cost of ready pre
pared roof paints, us usually sold.
—about 10c. to 15c. cost per gallon.
If too thin, add more resin or lime;
If too thick, add hot tar or plnolene.
The tar Is acid, so be sure and add
soda or lime, or It will rust the Iron
hoops badly.
"Never use raw tar on Iron or
roofH. It will destroy Iron and nallJ."
PASTURK CHOP FOR HOGS.
I have a small piece of old
field that I cut the pines ofT of
last year, and want to sow rape,
rye, or something for spring
pasture for hogs. This land Is
light and loamy and has not
been in tend for eight years.
Please give me Instruction
about what would be best to
sow. when to sow It, and w’hat
to manure It with. J. B. D.
Onslow Co., N. C.
(Answer by Prof. W. F. Massey.)
If the land Is strong or you fer
tilize it well, you can sow rape now
in rows, like rutabaga turnips, and
cultivate It. Then after the second
cultivation you can sow rye among
It. Turn the hogs on when the rape
Is well grown and they will hardly
dnmage the rye, but will eat the rape
down during the winter, and If taken
off then, the rye will make some
pasture for spring. You can sow
3 pounds of rape per acre now’ and
the rye about November 1st, and by
that time the rape should be large
enough to turn on. Give the land
a cont of manure If you can. If not
then apply 300 pounds of cottonseed
meal per acre and harrow It In be
fore sowing the rape. Get the Dw’arf
Essex rape. A heavier application
of the cottonseed meal broadcast
will give you better rye. The 300
pounds is Intended to be put in the
furrows for the rape and bedded on,
nnd the beds flattened before sowiftg.
Make the rows about 2 V6 feet apart.
TEXAS FARMERS’ ORGANIZAe
TIONS.
Messrs. Editors: The Secretary
of the Texas Farmers’ Congress, in
his announcement of the meeting
held at the Texas A. & M. College
last week, states that the following
organizations will hold meetings in
connection with the Congress:
Texas Dairymen's Association;
Texas Corn Growers’ Association;
Texas Rice Growers’ Association;
Texas Swine Breeders’ Association;
Texas Nurserymens’ Association;
Texas Woman’s Industrial and Edu
cational Association; Texas Boys’
and Girls’ Agricultural Association;
Texas Seed breeders’ Association;
Texas Cotton Growers’ Association;
Texas Bee Keepers’ Association; Tex
as Nut Growers’ Association; Texas
Hay Makers’ Association; Texas
Sheep and Goat Breeders’ Associa
tion; Texas Horticultural Society;
Texas Citrus Fruit Growers’ Associa
tion; Jexas School Superintendents’
Association; Texas School Trustees’
Association; Texas Feed and Forage
Crop Association.
It appears that Texas is advanced
in organizations having for their ob
ject the development of diversified
agriculture and agricultural educa
tion and progress and that other
Southern States are backward, by
comparison, at least.
C. L. NEWMAN.
A HELP IN DEMONSTRATION
WORK.
Messrs. Editors: Since I am read
ing your paper and the valuable of
fer you have made to the corn club
boys of my district, giving the op
portunity not only to them but to
fathers also, it has given me great
encouragement in my demonstration
work as local agent. I am glad to
say fhat boys are taking advantage
of advice in your valuable columns.
I think I read sometime ago in
your paper that on our Southern
farms at time of last working of
cotton one could plant some kind of
green cover crop—crimson clover.
Please let me know, if advisable,
how to plant, amount of seed per
acre, where could be bought, about
what price?
AVIT. C. BORDELON.
Bordelonville, La.
Editorial Comment: We are glad
that Mr. Bordelon finds The Pro
gressive Farmer and Gazette help
ful to him in his work with the farm
boys as well as with the older farm
ers.
We would certainly advise the
sowing of some cover crop on cotton
land. At the first picking, crimson
clover, vetch, oats, or rye may be
sown. Owing to the scarcity and
high price of crimson clover seed,
it will probably be better, as a rule,
especially in sections where it has
not been grown, to sow rye or oats,
1 Vi bushels of the former or 2 bush
els of the latter per acre. One-half
bushel vetch with a bushel of rye or
a bushel and a half of oats will
make a splendid cover crop, but the
first cost is greater. Full directions
for sowing all these cover crops have
lately been given in our columns.
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