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Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, president State Agri
cultural College. Atheus. Ga.
DEVELOPING OCR LIVE STOCK IN
DUSTRIES.
That we can make rapid and substan
tial progress if we apply ourselves to
the task properly Is shown bv what has
been accomplished in Georgi# tn the last
few years. According to the census
figures of 1310 we possessed animals of
the several classes to the number and
value Indicated below:
Number. Value.
Horses 120.067 >14.193.833
Mules 295.348 43.9T4.6H
Beef and dairy cat-
t1e1.080,316 ,14.060.958
Sheep 187,644 30R.212
5wine1.783,684 5.429,016
T0ta13.467.059 877,966,636
According to the bureau of crop esti
mates the figures for 1916 are as fol
lows:
Number. Value.
Horses 127.000 $16,383,000
Mules 324,000 52.812.000
Beef and dairy cat-
tale 1,104,000 26.579.0D0
Sheep 150,000 420.000
5wine2,585,000 23.265,000
i T0ta14,290,000 $119,459,000
The increase in numbers for the period
mentioned amounts to 822,941 and the
increase in value to $41,492,364. Part
of this increase in value is attributable
to the better grade of live stock and
the higher market values pertaining, but
a very considerable amount of it <s
due to the greater number of animals
I now owned. For instances, horses and
mules show an Increase, beef and dairy
cattle a slight increase, sheep a falling
off. but swine an increase of 801,316, or
well on towards the million mark. This
is a very notable increase to have oc
curred in a period of six years. More
over, where these animals had an aver
age value of $3.04 In 1910. they now
have an avA-age value of $9.00, showing
that the quality has been greatly ad
vanced. In other words, the increase
in value of swine In Georgia in six years
j amounts in round numbers to about
$18,000,000.
This gives some idea of the forceful
ness of an educational campaign organ
ized and conducted along certain lines.
While all pf the increase is not attrib
utable to any one agency, the boys’ live
I stock clubs have exerted a marvelous in
fluence by creating a renewed interest
.in swine husbandry in inducing the
; fathers to purchase pure-bred animals
| for them, and thereby raising the qual
. ity of the stock kept on many farms.
Naturally. the various organizations
concerned have endeavored in every way
to encourage the use of preventive serum
with the result that large numbers of
outbreaks of this disease have been
checked at the start, and hundreds of
farmers taught how to use the serum
properly. The county agents are un
doubtedly to be credited with having ac
complished a work along this line worth
millions of dollars to the swine owners
lof the state. They were the men on
the ground when the outbreaks occurred
and their prompt action and public serv
ice work in this direction can not be
too highly commended. I have no doubt
but that they have done an equally im
-1 portant work in every other southern
‘ state.
M mong the things which must be
done is to teach the southern farmer to
quit fighting grass Grass should be
his most valuable friend and most high
ly prized asset. The cotton farpier
has been taught to fight grass from in
fancy; therefore, it seems that he is un
willing to have any of it on any part
of his land whether he devotes it to
cotton or not. One cannot grow and
maintain live stock successfully with
• out grass. It is needless to enxer into
j detail as to the great variety of grasses
; and clovers which may be provided for
, summer and winter grazing and which
'would shortly clothe our hills and pre
vent their erosion if given opportunity
I to do so. They would also add materially
Jto the carrying capacity of the land,
shorten the length of time we would
have to stall feed our animals, enable
us to improve the quality of our live
stock, and give us the necessary suc
i culent food for the cheap maintenance
|of live stock in the summer which
i silage affords in the winter.
■ Speaking of the educational campaign
it is proper to state that hundreds of
silos have been built in Georgia in the
last few years as a result of the work
done by the animal husbandry divi
sion and the extension force of the State
College of Agriculture. Flans have been
tarnished to thousands of farmers and
they have been aided in erecting the
t.tces- ary structurer. They have also
I ecu advised as to the crops to f,rcw
ar;d as to the methods of feeding to
follow with the result'that the silo is
:»cw regarded by many as an indispen
slblc factor in thi maintenance of beef
and dairy cattle on a neconctnlcai and
ptactical baa's. Gnl> a beginning has
been made In this dlrectioii, however, for
the time mut-:t shortly come when there
will be thousands of e los in every
southern state if we are to develop
our live stock business to the degree
which is necessary and essential.
Only a word can be said inlthis con
nection relative to the feeding of live
stock, hut it is along this line that more
failures are recorded than .n any other
direction. Self criticism is not pleas
ant. bitt if we realize that for the most
part we are ’ babes in the woods” when
It comes to the question of feeding, we
will make progress all the more rapid
ly. The problem of animal nutrition is
a complicated one froth every point of
view. One must understand the compo
sition of foodstuffs, and the anatomy,
physiology and requirements of the ani
mal body for maintenance, for growth
and for work. One must ir.derstand
how to combine foods in order io pro
mote digestion and circulation; in oth
er words, how to lubricate the machine
most cheaply and successfully. The
animal in the stall corresponds to the
knitting machine in the mill. It may or
may not do effective work. It all depends
on the manner In which it is set up and
manipulated. It must be adjusted and
oiled and lubricated. The animal must
be fed and watered and cared for prop
erly If expected to produce a profitable
return. As to the amount of fooostuffs
available, our supply may be limited
In some respects, but we can produce
i silage ad libitum, and this can be fed
1 with success for six months of the year.
Summer pastures can be provided by
i the farmer who has the ambition to do
so. Grain crops of a great variety may
Ibe had to use as concentrates. We can
increase our yields of corn, oats, pea
nuts. soy beans, velvet beans and cotton
seed meal. No section of the country
may be better supplied with the varie
ty of foodstuffs essential to the proper
I nourishment of all classes of live stock
, 'han the soißh. It is a question of
I choosing from the rich field of possible
[supply and combining nature's gifts in
the proper manner.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1917.
That feed problem is a determining
factor in economic produtcion is shown
by the following example. A dairy cow
fed on a ration of thirty-six pounds of
silage and 6 pounds of cottonseed meal
produced a profit of $51.75 from butter
when sold at 30c a pound. When fed on
a ration of 36 pounds of silage, 7 pound*
of hay and 5 pounds of mixed grain, th?
profit at the same sale price was $37.1a.
When fed on a ration of 12 pounds of
silage. 10 pounds of hay and 10 pounds
of mixed grain, the profit fell to $24 -
43. In other words, one ration was
more than twice as profitable as an
other. This example will apply with
e<iual force to the economic maintenance
of horses and niules. beef and dairy
cattle, sheep and swine. The feeding
of live stock may be a gamble at pres
ent. and if so, the cards stack them
selves against the owner every time. In
telligence and skill and the essential
knowledge on which correct nutrition is
predicated must be possessed by the
successful stockman. I emphasize,
therefore, the necessity of encouraging
hundreds of boys In the south to take
1 the necessary courses of instruction in
our agricultural colleges that they may
become aqualnted with the science and
art of animal nutrition and become ex
perts in the handling of live stock. Un
til this is done our progress will be of
the more or less blundering* variety and
our losses will be so frequent as to dis
courage rather than promote what in
the very nature of the situation should
always be one of our most important
and constructive industries.
The stockman must give consideration
to quality in his animals. If he is not
willing to do this he can not hope to
succeed. The south is very backward
in this direction. We are securing a
very small return for instance, from the
dairy cows we maintain. In fact, a large
per cent of them are unprofitable. It
may not seem credible to every per
son. but it is true nevertheless that a
cow giving 300 pounds of butter fat in
a lactation period made the same profT
as forty-one cows each yielding 131
pounds of butter in a lactation period.
The reason for this lies in the fact that
it costs so much to maintain an animal.
The food consumed in maintenance is
not used for productive purposes. A
cow of limited assimilative capacity can
only utilize so much food. We may
feed her more than a given amount but
she w'astes the balance. She is not an
economical manufacturer of milk and
butter. We must get rid. therefore, of
the thief in the dairy herd, and wc
should remember that there are thou
sand/ of them. The same is true of
our baef cattle and our sheep and
swine. We muat get rid of the scrub
stock, the slow devloper. and the animal
which can not eat an unusually large
amount of food and assimilate and di
gest it to advantage and manufacture
therefrom some food substance of value
to the owner and to the human race. We
must come to understand that animals
are just as individualistic as human
beings and we must get rid of the low
grade stock we possess if we are to
be sucessful and prosperous as live
stock farmers.
• ♦ •
A COMPARISON OF VELVET BEANS
AND COTTON MEAL.
J. J. R., Lanier, Ga.. writes: How <lo
velvet henna ground up with the inilla com
pare with cottonseed meal as a food and
fertiliser’ Would they make a good fer
tiliser when mixed with acid phosphate?
Velvet beans when ground with the
hull contain about
16.5 per cent of protein.
4.6 pr cent of fait.
10.3 per cent fiber.
54.9 per cent of carbohydrates.
A ton of velvet beans ground with
the hulls contains about
56.8 lbs. nitrogen.
16 lbs. phosphoric acid.
34.4 lbs. potash.
The beans make a very good stock
feed and can be fed to almost any class
of stock with advantage. They are
probably best mixed in the proportion
of equal parts with corn or corn and
cob meal. Beans are relatively cheaper
than corn at the present price. One
might, therefore, make a mixture of
two-thirds beans and one-third corn and
cob meal. Velvet beana are not nearly
so rich as cottonseed meal. In other
words, if a ton of beans ground with
the hulls can be purchased at $20.00,
the feeding value of a good grade of
cottonseed meal would not be far from
$40.00. A high grade cotton seed
meal contains about
140 libs, of nitrogen.
54 lbs. of phosphoric acid.
36 lbs. of potash.
Tn other words, it contains 2 1-2
times as much nitrogen and nearly 3
l-.'l times as much phosphoric acid as
beans with the hulls. Os course, velvet
beans ground with the hulls can be mix
ed with an equal amount by weight of
acid phosphate and a fair fertilizer ob
tained for corn and cotton. It would
naturally be rather low in nitrogen and
potaab. The latter we cannot help by
reiscn of existing circumstances, but I
think nitrogen could be Increased to ad
vantage. While neither velvet beans
nor cottonseed meal should be used di
rectly as fertilizer, 1 would prefer to
use the cottonseed meal in place of the
velvet beans if it could be bought at
anything like the same relative price
when their plant food and fertilizing
value is concerned.
The neople in your community should
grind their beans and use them for
stock food. They could be fed to ad
vantage to hogs, which is not true; of
course, of cottonseed meal.
WANTS A CHEAP RATION FOR HIS
HOGS.
J. R. >(., Ducktown. Tenn., writes: I
have two pigs four months old. I want to
kill one this winter and raise the other for
a atoak bog. 1 .an get >i fed thnt anal
yses 14.5 per cent protein. 50 per cent
carbohydrates, 4 per cent fat and 8 per
cent fiber, for $2.(17 per cwt. Corn meal
costa me $1.65 per bushel. Which would
you adi isc me to use? There !■ no pas
turage here.
If situated as you are we would en
deavor to raise the pig in question on
corn meal at $1.65 per bushel in prefer
ence to paying $2.67 per hundred weight
for material showing the analysis indi
cated in your letter. Corn meal of itself,
you understand, does not make a satis
factory ration for hogs because it is
low in protein and ash mater. On that
account you should feed something along
with it. This material can be provided
in part by using kitchen slop provided
you keep soap powders and broken dishes
and glass out of it. The corn meal can
be reduced to a semiliquid form with
the slop. If you can secure some skim
milk to feed with the corn meal your
problem is already solved, as it will
supply the necessary protein and some
considerable amount of ash matter as
well.
In any event you should give the hogs
considerable range so they may travel
about and thereby secure exercise which
will kep them in good condition. They
will also gather up a considerable
amount of mineral matter and some food
as well, and this will tend to counteract
the effect of feeding a ration of corn
slone. if yon can grow any legumes
such as cowpeas, garden peas, soy beans
or any of the clovers seed some of them
right away so as ’ to provide a grazing
crop for your hogs and thereby keep
them in a much better condition as to
health and insure a more rapid growth
and development than if you provide no
succulent feed whatever.
THE EEEEt'T OE ADVANCED LACTA
TION ON MILK.
.1. W. Rome, Ga., writes: 1 would
like some advice about my cow. She is old
and due to freshen the first of May. There
is something wrong with the milk: it does
not clabber good when churning. It foams
up and doits not make butter and has an of
fensive smell. We fed meal and hulls
and some cotton seed, velvet bean hay and
some shucks.
The milk of cows far advanced in
lactation is often difficult to chrun. This
is supr»osed to be due to the advance
stage of the lactation period, also to the
fact that at this season of the year
farmers generally feed dry and unpal
atable rations. The desirable food for
a dairy cow is one of succulent nature.
Possibly there is a little green feed
available in some cereal field you may
have on your farm and if the ground is
not too wet allowing the cow to graze
on oats or rye would probably be help
ful. It is often necessary, where one is
feeding cottonseed meal, to raise the
churning temperature by about 10 de
green. and it is sometimes necessary to
use what is known as a starter. This
consists of a small amount of milk
which has cured normally and contains
lactic acid bacteria. This small amount
of milk, say a pint or so, should be add
ed to the fresh milk as it Is drawn from
the cow and the whole allowed to stand
at a uniform temperature, after it has
been mixed thoroughly, for about 24
hours before churning. You could
probably secure some fermenting milk
from, a neighbor to use as a starter.
Sometimes foaming, or the failure to
clabber, is due to an invasion of the
milk by an objectionable form of bac
teria. These can generally only be
eliminated by a thorough scalding and
scrubbing of the utensils used and these
exposed to sunlight for a considerable
length of time.
• » •
TREATING INDIGESTION IN HOGS.
A. M. F., Ocilla. Ga., writes: I have
six fine pigs that were taken away from
'their mother at five weeks of age. They
are now two weeks old and are having
trouble with their bowels. 1 have been
feeding them buttermilk, com bread and
corn. What shall I do for them?
Young pigs often suffer from indi
gestion, especially shortly after wean
ing. unless they are very carefully and
skilfully handled. They are very likely
to take cold at this season of the year
by reason of the change of weather and
the exposure to cold rains. You should
see that they have a. warm, dry bed
In which to sleep and the litter changed
often enough to keep it dry and in good
condition. It is very desirable that
the feeding troughs be kept clean and
there is nothing better to use for this
purpose than salsoda. Overfeeding is
to be avoided as much as underfeeding.
We do not consider corn a satisfactory
food for young pigs. We would be dis
posed to cut out the oom for a while
and feed them on skim milk or butter
milk and shorts. a fairly thin
slop with the concentrate mentioned.
A tendency to diarrhoea can often be
corrected by using a little digester
tankage. Only a small amount should
be used. You can secure this through
any of the large packing houses. It is
a valuable food material to have on
hand where one is handling hogs in
any considerable number. One should
always be suspicious of sickness among
hogs, of course, as there is danger of
an outbreak of cholera. If the condi
tion does not right itself after the pur
suit of the suggestions given you
should send for your county agent and
have the hogs inoculated with preven
tive serum.
GERMAN MILLET AS A CATCH
CROP.
D. J. S., Chester, Ga.. writes: I have
been thinking of planting German hay
grass. Do you consider it good for hay,
and when should it be planted? I have
been asked a dollar a pound for the seed.
Do you not think that is high?
By German hay grass you no doubt
mean German millet. This is a crop
which may be grown with considerable
success In Georgia for hay. It may
be planted either alone or in combina
tion with cowpeas. It can be sown any
time after the ground warms up in the
spring until the first of August. It
requires from sixty to ninety days in
which to mature a hay crop. In favor
able seasons and when planted early
we have seen It yield two cuttings a
year. When combined with cowpeas it
has the advantage of helping to hold
the vines off the ground and of mak
ing a hay not quite so rich in protein,
and therefore better adapted as a feed
for horsts and mules than cowpeas or
millet alone. It is best cut when it is
in the dough stage, and it should be
mown like any other hay and cured in
cocks in the field. You have been
asked too much for seed as
you should be able to buy it for $2 a
1 Millet seed is largely produced
in T.- > • .»e. It would be a mistake
to plan., t at this season of the year.
• • •
FERTILIZING VALUE OF VOIDED
COTTON MEAL.
R. R. W., Durham, Ont., writes: When
feeding the best grade of cottonseed meal
to cattle 1 what is its after value per ton
as a -fertilixer? I seeded a field with
sweet clover In oats last spring, and made
r. .'air gis'wrb. W<n’d it have any value
plowed under in May for corn?
The best grade of cottonseed meal,
which is known as choice cottonseed
meal, contains about:
37 per cent digestible protein.
21 8 per cent digestible carbohydrates,
8.6 per cent digestible fat.
Meal of this grade will contain per
ton about:
141.2 pounds nitrogen,
54 pounds phosphoric acid,
36 pounds potash.
At the prices prevailing for availa
ble nitrogen and phosphoric acid a ton
of cottonseed meal of the grade men
tioned would contain more than $32
worth of plant food. Allowing 5 cents
per ponud fro available potash it would
contain over $34 worth. Os course, pot
ash is practically unobtainable at the
present time on account of war condi
tions. therefore it would have a much
higher relative value where its use is
deemed essential.
It has long been recognized, of course,
that a large part of the nitrogen and
mineral plant food contained in a food
stuff is voided by manure animals. Our
correspondent does not say whether he
is feeding beef or dairy cattle. In case
he is feeding the former and taking
good care of manure he should be able
to preserve 75 per cent of the value of
the fertilizing constituents and return
to the land. In the case of beef cat
tle the figures would probably approx
imate 85 or- 90 per cent. It is presum
ed in this calculation that the manure
is being kept under a shed and pro
tected from washing and leaching and
while compacted it Is still sufficiently
moist to prevent it from fire-fanging.
Upon the basis indicated, therefore, the
fertilizing value of the manure result
ing from the feeding of a ton of cotton
seed meal would be $25 and upwards.
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Only Through Education Can South
Become Rich in Material Things
BY BISHOF W. A. CANDLEB.
Dean Holmes, of the Pennsylvania
State college, has been making a care
ful computation of facts and figures
from which he reaches the conclusion
that a college education is worth in
money $20,0(10. He says that the aver
age non-college graduate earns $5lB a
year, while his brother, the college
graduate, earns $1,187. Estimating the
working period of man’s life as thirty
years, and multiplying the difference
between $5lB and $1,187 by thirty, the
result is $20,070.
The calculation of Dean Holmes is
interesting, and while it cannot be ac
cepted ar perfectly accurate, of course,
nevertheless, it does not overestimate
the momentary value of education. The
stimulating and informing power of in
tellectual culture naturally and inevi
tably increases the productive power
of a man. Hence the mental develop
ment of a young man by his collegiate
training increases his earning capacity:
he is worth more because he is, by his
education, enabled to produce more.
It follows from these facts that the
most valuable resources of any people
is found in their children, and that the
development of human resoußzes must
precede the development of all mate
rial resources.
New England perceived this obvious
truth early in her history, and pro
ceeded to establish and endow colleges,
and the policy of providing first of all
for the education of her children has
enriched her nut of all proportion to
her ,material resources. She cannot
claim superior agricultural resources.
In her hills she mines no gold or silver
or iron or copper. She is without vast
coal deposits, and has no oil wells. Her
flocks and herds are Inconsiderable:
for her pasture lands are restricted and
her winters long and severe.
But notwithstanding all these disad
vantages, New England has grown
rich, and is growing richer.
Massachusetts has only about one
seventh the area of Georgia, and her
material resources are far inferior to
those of Georgia. But the assessed val
uation of property in Massachusetts ts
$8,214,795,380, or $2,237 per capita,
while the assessed valuation of prop
erty in Georgia is $951,763,472. or $340
per capita. Why this difference?
Allowance must be made for the ef
fects of the war. perhaps. But the war
is fifty years and more behind us. With
Georgia's superior resources, she ought
to have gained on Massachusetts far
more in these fifty years.
There may be some difference in the
methods employed in ascertaining the as
sessed valuation of property in Massa
chusetts and Georgia.
But when every explanation is made
that can be justly offered, Georgia is far
behind and Massachusetts is far ahead
in the matter of material possessions.
Why?
The main reason is that the people
have been educated more generally In
Massachusetts than in Georgia.
The colleges and universities of Mas
sachusetts are worth more than all the
institutions of higher learning in the
entire south.
If we were to follow the West Point
railway from Atlanta to the Alabama
line, and thence follow the Alabama line
northward to the Tennessee line, and
thence follow the Tennessee line east
ward to a point near Knoxville, and
thence follow the Louisville and Nash
ville railway back to Atlanta, the start
ing point, we would inclose an area
slightly larger than Massachusetts. But
within such a restricted area in Massa
chusetts are Harvard university, Bos
ton university, Williams college. Tufts
college and Amherst college, for men.
and all these institutions are rich and
growing richer. For our purpose no men
tion need be made of the technical
schools, the strictly theological schools
and the institutions for the higher edu
cation of women in Massachusetts, al
though in these institutions are invested
millions of dollars for buildings,
grounds, libraries, apparatus and endow
ments.
These institutions of learning in Mas
sachusetts have developed the people,
and her skilled people, with enhanced
productive powers, have made the vast
wealth of the Bay state.
Such would be the case in Georgia if
our educational enterprises were as
strong and effective as those of Massa
chusetts.
But Georgia has been afflicted by
some blind leaders who have committed
the egregious blunder of taxing college
endowments for the last forty years,
during the period when it was most im
perative to encourage the upbuilding of
our educational institutions. These men
have done nothing for the higher educa
tion of our people, and they have dis
couraged others from doing anything.
Happily they are losing their leader
ships, as they richly deserve to lose it.
The have forfeited the confidence of the
people by opposing enlightenment anfi
progress. A new era has opened.
And in this new era it behooves us to
make progress with all speed in order
that we may retrieve as soon as possible
the injury inflicted upon the state by
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I ignorance. Our material interests im
peratively move us to endow and equip
I our colleges and universities without de
lay.
But our material interests are not our
highest interests, and education yields
something nobler and better than the
power to make money.
•Commenting upon the calculations of
Dean Holmes a leading paper in New
York says:
“Averages are not convincing, and
such a calculation omits a hundred
items which ought to enter into the
calculation. For example, what
about the minister or teacher or so
cial worker who finds in his col
lege years the inspiration which
calls him aside from the scramble
for riches, and opens to him a
career of service whose worth to
the community is by no means
measured by the support he re
ceives in cash?
“The earnings of graduates form
no standard by which to appraise
the work of the colleges. To be
sure these institutions teach how to
do things for which wages are paid,
but that, after all. is the least that
they db. The Christian college—
and an unchristian college is worse
than none at all—makes Its most
valuable contribution to society by
combining with its general and tech
nical instruction the inculcation of
principles which are at the founda
tion of character. No t money
makers but manhood —deveoped
manhood —forms its true product.”
These are wise words. Education is
valuable not only for what it enables
men to DO, but chiefly for what it en
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Educated men render services also
that are far more valuable than the in
comes which they earn for themselves.
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by Dr. Reid, In Cuba, that yellow fever
is transmitted by a certain species of
the mosquito. Without that discovery
the Panama canal could not have been
constructed; for the ravages of fever
would have destroyed the men sent to
build it faster than their ranks could
have been refilled by other laborers.
Such was the insuperable difficulty which
made DeLesseps fail In his efforts to
build It.
With the discovery of Dr. Reid our
South Atlantic and Gtflf ports have been
rid of the pestilence, and multiplied
thousands of valuable and productive
lives have been saved.
Who can estimate the immeasurable
value of that one discovery! Yet for his
labor Dr. Reid received only the meager
compensation of an army surgeon.
He was the son of a minister who
put all he had into the education of
his son, and in so doing he blessed the
south more than have all the cheap poli
ticians who have lived during the last
hundred years.
Alas! what precious lives were lost
before Dr. Reid’s discovery. They per
ished for lack of knowledge. What a
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than education.
We are most wasteful of our highest
and most valuable resource when we fail
to educate our sons and daughters. Will
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