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THE FARMING, STOCK. RAISING, DAIRYING, POULTRY AND OTHER INTERESTS OF TH£ SOUTHER. ISTAlhi VOL. 7. NO. 26. _ STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, OCTOBER 15,1902. SOcInT:,TvEAR. % I Green Food For Hogs in Arkansas. The Arkansas Experiment tation has made four series of aluable experimentswith forage rops for hogs. In the first ex eriment five pigs farrowed larch 3 were fed ten months on succession of green crops har ested by themselves. The land sed was such as would produce bout twenty-five bushels of corn er acre. The pigs ran with the ow for about ten weeks and the mount she ate was charged up uainst the pigs. The green rops pastured were red clover rom March 30 to July 20; arghum from July 28 tjSeptem er 21, and Spanish peanutsfrom eptember 21 to December 2, fter which they were fed corn ntil they were slaughtered. inuary3. In all one-fourth acre over, one-fourth acre sorghum, ad three-fifths acre Spanish eanuts were pastured. Only a art of the clover was pastured fr timp sin that tu/n rrnn« vvprp ■ secured, A little corn and bran was fed to the pigs during the early stages of growth, the total up to six months of age h'i..g but 31.2 pounds of bran ar.d live bush Js of shelled corn. During the month of Decem ber while the pigs were being hardened up they consumed nineteen bu«helsof shelled £orn. At the endot the lattening period they averaged 243 pounds. Their average da.lv gain on the forage crops whs 1.31 pounds During the fattening period of thir'y one days they made an average daily gain of 1 15 pounds. The total cost of producing pork with these pigs from birth to ten month of age was but one and one-half cents per pound. This is cheap pork and the important feature of it is the small amount of corn employed, butsixand three-fifths Iuumic n uemg icquircu iui cdtu hog. It is thought that even this amount might have been reduced had the pigs been grazed longer on the peanuts. Iu these experi ments the sow and pigs were first pastured on rye; but the sow would eat only a very little of the rye, so they were removed after a week and fed on clover. At the time the pigs were turned on peanuts two of the five were con lined on sweet potatoes tor twelve lays, but they did not take readi iv to th's crop, Nor did tney gain so rapidly in flesh as the pigs on peanuts. From observations made on alfalfa at the station during the Mason it is believed this crop might easily replace red clover ' a hogs. It was ready to pas ture ten da\ s before the red • ' er, could have been cut four 'es during the ' son, andpro 1 ad considerab more teed th; n clover. The station points ’’ that pigs must be pushed I v tin v are young if profitable k wth is to besecured. This is ‘ ee by giving them good pas and grain. When quite I^V' i.ng milk with shorts or meal ,1: T makes the best food for pigs t" ‘•uppk-ment pasture. in pasturing pigs the following year ( n forage crops bogs averag ing 124 pounds each at the begin n"V"| the test gaine d in thirty two days seventy-three and one pounds each <n peanuts, ‘ nty-two anu three-fourths pounds on soy beans and tbirty nine and one-third pounds on chufas. Hogs the same size gain ed seventy-six and one-third pounds when shut npand fed dry corn* in a pen during the same period The soy beans were pastured when the pods were wi 11 tilled and some were chang ing color. They were clearly not equal to either peainuts or chufas in this experiment for pork production. On the basis of this work it is estimated that 313 pounds of pork were produ ced onone-fourth acre of peanuts, 148 pounds on one-tourth acre of chufas, and 10*1 pounds on one fourth acre ol corn. The yield of peanuts with 87 per cent of a good stand was ‘10 bushels per acre; of chufas with 75 per cent of a good stand 184 bushels per acre, and of soy beans (good _J \ I- 1 ouiuu ; .M UU3IIC13 pu du Li Peanuts in this ( vperiment made a soft oily fa' n. ihe meat was good flavor. Soy beans and chufas made firmer pork than peanuts but not as firm as corn made pork. Subsequently experiments at the st^lion have been shown that when good grade pigs were graz ed on peanut and chufas either alone or combined and fed in ad dition corn sufficient to feed ex clusively for four weeks as good a quality of pork and lard was produced as when the pigs were fed exclusively on corn. By feed, ing pasture-fed pigs corn exclu sively for a month the pork was made much firmer and the melt ing point of the lard was raised a few degrees. Feeding a smaller quantity of corn was of r.o ma terial benefit and feeding corn for a longer period was found too ex pensive under Arkansas con ditions. Purebred hogs produ ces a firmer pork of better quali ty when pastured than scrubs. In these experiments the melting point of thq, fat from hogs pas tured'xm different crops for thir tv-two days was as follows: Peanuts,87 f> deg. F.; chufas 1*8 4 deg. F.; soy beans, 103.3 deg. F.; corn 114 deg. F. The uniting oointof the lard, however, was found to vary greatly in different hogs and from different parts of the same hog, but the firmest pork and lard was regularly made on corn. C. B. Smith. Dept., of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C., in Breeder’s Gazette. White Oleomargarine Loses A friend in Denver, Colo., sends the following clipping from a local newspaper, headed “Oleomargarine Loses Favor with its Color; the New Law has Played Havoc with the Article.” It says: “ ‘The new oleomargarine law has played hob with the sale of that article,’ said James B. Jami son, the Market street butter and egg man. ‘Not long ago I was handling two carloads of this compound a month. Now, under the new order of things, I sell about twenty tubs a month. And the funny thing about it is that all this change is simply due to the leaving out of the color-ng n.atter, the pinch of stuff that changed its appearance from pale tallow to a rich golden but ter yellow. There is no differ ent in the goods. It is just as pure as ever. But people have become so accustomed to golden colored butter that they won’t st.md for any other color. “Oleomrrgarine is just as nourishing and just as pure as the same grade of dairy product and I’d just as willingly eat it as the cow product. In fact, I would wager a good suit of clothes that notone hundred men in Denver, outside of butter shops, can tell the difference between fancy creamery butter and fancy creamery oleomarga rine. Chemically, they are the same from the standpoint of bacilli—and such things. The likelihood of infection from but ter is greater than from oleo margarine. Before the present law became a fixtui e, the dealers sold twice as 4much as all the creamery and dairy butter that came into the city. Now it’s all changed, simply because the pale, sickly color of oleomarga rine condemns it and no one has a legal right under heavy penalty to mix in the coloring matter, but the man who eats it. The law is so stringent that you can’t have your hi^ed man color it \i'i I hmil fii-jLimr nnt n CiAOO government license and in aH dition paying a tax of 10 ecu is a pound on all you have culored. And if served at hotels and res taurants it must be labeled with a plainly printed legand telling what it is. “I do not know what the oleo margarine manufacturers are going to do; shut up business possibly. But I have made a big gam in my ‘sho miff’ butter busi ness and have no desire to regis ter a kick. Butter is butter now. It’s very strong and prices will surely remain firm at peesent figures, or, as I believe, go even a few notches higher.’ ” What, How, When, Where. What, how, when and where shall we feed? To thoroughly answer that question one would have to write a short volume, so in this short article, says Commer cial Poultry. However, one thing is certain: In order to get best results we must feed a variety. T. ke into consideration what a mixture an active hen will gather during a day in summer. Then in your efforts to get winter eggs follow nature and biddy will be pleased and repay you for your trouble. What bens mostly need is nitrogenous matter, and this should be kept in selecting grains aud other food. Do not fail to give lots of bu’ky food, such as mangtis, sugar uceis, cauuage and boiled potatoes and turnips. Mix the two latter inthe soft feed, and the former give raw. These go to promote health as well as variety, and take the place of too much grain, which produces fat, and a fat hen will not lay. Then a little meat of green bone (ground) should be fed at least t\\ ice a week. The grain should be fed in straw or some other lit ter, an 1 if corn is fed it should be crocked quite fine. A hen will dig harder for a little piece of cracked corn than for any other grain. Soft feed should be fed in clean troughs and in such a way that the hens cinnot get into it w ith their feet. Feed regular lv and not too often. Send the fowls to bed with full crops, but make them work until they are tired in getting them filled. Truck ii" T Dairy „ , Farm - 160 acres level land three miles from the growing manufacturing city of Laurel; the best market for truck and dairy products in Mississippi. Land will make a bale of cotton per acre with some fertilizer. Will sell this well-improved place for $2.r00. L. F. EASLY, Laurel, Miss ffincy Farm Berkshire. ••*•**.**## On band now a few litters as fine as I have ever bred, ready for prompt shipment. These pigs have typical heads, backs and hams and have excellent bone, with unusual finish. Buyer should order before weather gets too warm to shi’->. Plymouth Rocks at a bargain. Address, S Q. HOLLINGSWORTH, - Coushatta, La COW PEAS. Whippoorwill Peas. .$1 50 bu. Clays and Wonderfuls.. . 1 10 bu. Mixed and Unknown.. 1 00 bu. Tenn. German Millet Seed.$1 50 bu. Dwarf Essex Rape .6c 1b LJinder Twine. 12c lb. Red Top& Orange cane seed SI 40 bu. tOB"All in cotton bags 15c extra each, and terms NET CASH. G. R. BAIRD & CO., - Chattanooga, Tenn. For Saie--A Bargain. 240 acre Delta farm, 18 miles south of Greenville, Miss., anil 3 miles west of Wilinot Station where we have both Y. & M. V. ami Southern R. R's. Convenient enough to the railroad can leave the place in the morning and go to Greenville and attend to business and get back that evening or you ran go in the evening and get back neat morning. There is two first clues e,,, i gins at Wilmot also Post Otlicc. There is 123 acres in fine state >>i cultiva tion which will make a bale of cotton per acre this year. 6 good Houses, 3 pumps, good water, barns and shedo, lull supplv of. farm implements, 1 four horse wagon and gears, blacksmith outfit, ti eead fine vonng mules one 8 year old horse, larfie and work any where. Everything complete for one who wants this size farm I will state that this land is a < fine as any in the Delta and lies beautiful^- mil is cheap at $30 an acre 1 am engaged in other business and find I cannot give tho proper attention this property’, so am willing to . make a sacrifice of it. I will close it out for $75l>0.00 the entire outfit, one tliird cash and the balance in payments to sut purchaser. This I consider the best bargain in the Delta and the right man can make the deferred pay ments like paying rent. Jerseys For Sale. BY Missssippi Experiment Station. To reduce the Station herd, we are offering for saleseveral choice \ oung registerek cows and heifers. Also five well bred young twills. Most of the ahove cows are with calf Prospects Polo; dam masscy Polo, sire. Stake Pogis of Prospec. Full particulars sent on application. J. S, Moore, Ac, liuraT College, Miss. \