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SHT kind of
EED IS NEEDED
IN DAIRYING
, n ty nf the right kind of feed
lood pastures will come nedr-
^kinp a poor dairy cow pay
ofjt than anything else. Sil-
is almost indispensable as a
feed but whether silage Is
or not. no darljunan living
farm can afford not to pto-
plenfv of corn and soy bean
for feed.
er o are many men trying to
, a living milking cows who
ot feed their cows enough or
i5 |, a pasture good enough to
^ to determine what kind of
they have, whether good or
on,, of the south’s greatest
ike* is not producing enough
for her live stock.
testing associations are
5„t they are worth but little
rsons who have poor pastures
ar . dependent upon food
„ j n other sections for their
. ,\ cow must be fed lib-
f to he able to determine fully
he r »«• profitable or not.
s ( |o not always give the true
This test can be made
^r with homo grown, feeds,
ere are other good \grains
hay* that, f are profitable
as i. spodesa, Johnson grass
pea*, oats. «te„ but none can
,ore universally grown than
and soy«,beans.
soy bean hay. com and cot-
are grown and the cotton
exchanged with the oil mlll3
oitnnseed meal, there is little
that would ho needed ex
tras* hay in the absence of
». and a little wlieat bran as
iriety.
ns are being planted on
experiment station farms at
t. The followthg method is
used: The land Is broken.
r a*t ami harrowed; the rows
laid off with a fertilizer dis-
tor which is at the same
putting down from 300 to 400
ds of an 8-4-4 fertilizer per
While the soy bean is able
• some nitrogen from the
the plants are greatly bene-
by the use of a little fer-
• at the start. The rows
from 30 to 3« Inches apart.
i from 10 to 30 pounds
oy bean seed, according to
to properly seed an acre,
following varieties are good:
do. Otootan, yellow mammoth
Biloxi. Use corn planter for
ng down the seed. Two or
! seed per foot is good seed-
idvisableT except on very fer-
iOil.
section harrow can be run
malty acioss the row after
plants are well started, which
give the beans a good culti-
l Two additional cultiva-
will be sufficient to insure
ood hay cjjop—from two to
e Ijns per acre, ^according
oil fertility. Not less than
bushels of icorn should be
m fo- dairy cow In the
each year. Ground corn
j a part of molt mixed feeds
ery valuable as a food,
most profitable way to feed
to cows Is to grind the en-
tsr, • —* Ml. and feed
other concentrates such as
anseed meal, etc. Soy beans
iM be grown 'in every row of
to grazed off after the
is harvested and to Improve
soil.
IS. MIZE ON
SAVING YOUR
SURPLUS EGGS
Mrs. I^ila It. Mize, From •
»ee of Agriculture, Athens).
Biddy has done herself
as usual this spring woa-
The broody hens have been
incubator is filled, and
**ir basket is still running
the market price has
M to the lowest level, so
shall we do with our sur-
fggs?
suggestion, is preserve eggs
°r use next winter. The
•mr recurring^ annual trends
r of egg#. Ja an old, old
The bottom Is reached in
c ’ n and April %hil# the price
5 toward the moon arourd
“giving and Christmas.
preserved in water glass
■m* solution in the spring
tta will be quite satisfactory
Jour cooking purposes ' the
,ft ing winter. I have kert
1 aud found them usable as
® s the following February*
is host to pen the roosters
r hatching season is over,
** to produce infertile e«r«.
these will keep better
1 fertile eggs. The eggs must
and perfectly dean* Por-
% I ’'over preserve an egg
$• those laid in my own yard
gathered daily. ^
shell of the eggs has air
! n it. In other words, the
is porous. In order to keep
g? these pores must be
‘ Srt as to prevent the en*
e of any foreign matter or
as well as air and to pre-
evaporatlon to the egg it-
is therefore impossible to
a t racked egg. Under no
^stances should old, soiled
*Poilori eggs be put into the
’ a *i o<lors from one egg mrfy
^the flavor of the entire lot
•. i am going to tell yoo
Edited By T. Larry Gantt
two ways of keeping eggs. The
first method is called the water
glass method. Make a solution
of sodium silicate and water, 0
parts water, whieh has been
boiled and cooked, to one part
water glass. Which is a harm*
less, odorless chemical prepara
tion which costs only about 30
cents -a quart. This will make
enough solution to put up ten to
fifteen dozen eggs. You buy this
at the drug store, and it comes
either in a sticky liquid or a pow
der, hut you use both forms in
just the same way (except that
if you have powder you follow the
exact directions on the can to
find cut how much water to add)
This sodium silicate solution is L
sticky liquid which will close the
parce in the egg shell.
Method 1
1— Select a jar, say a 5 gallon
jar, wash thoroughly, scald, and
dry it. Be sure it has no odor of
any kin 1 about it.
2— Bent 10 quarts of water un
til it boils then set aside and let
cool.
3— After it has cooled take 9
quarts of water, pour it in your
jar and add to the water 1 quart
of sodium silicate or water glass
and stir well.
4— Then take your clean, fresh
eggs, and place them in this solu
tion, making them stand on the
small end. To do this it will be
necessary to have enough eggs to
entirely cover the bottom of the
vessel.
The reason I make this sug
gestion is that if the egg lies on
its side for a long time the yolk
sometimes falls to the bottom and
sticks to the shell. When you
have placed in the jar all the
fresh eggs you have at one time,
t»*.en cover your jar tightly with
a cover such as waxed paper or
oil cloth and tie tightly to pre
vent evaporation. Store the jat
away in a cool dry place. Fresh
eggs can be placed in the jar at
any time, a few every day as they
are gathered, until the jar is
filled. The liquid, however, must
nlways be two inches higher in
the jar than the eggs to insure
the keeping.
If much evaporation takes place
a water glass solution has a ten
dency to become a whitish semi
solid consistency. To avoid th a
after the eggs have been put in
if this tendency is seen some
additional water may be added
provided it has been boiled and
allowed to become cold.
For years I have put up eggs
in water glass every spring for
use in the fall while the hens arc
inking their annual vacation and
wh le the price of eggs is soar
ing toward tne moon just Delore
Thanksgiving and Christmas. 1
find them quite satisfactory
use in cookery like lemon or co-
coanut pies, puddings, cakes,
icings, and candies
eggs; for example, egg whites ir.
divinity candy. I found that; care
must be taken in separating the
yolks from the whites a* the
membrane enclosing the y olk b ha ,’
a tendency to weaken and brea..
down.
GEORGIA HENS IN
LEAD FOR HONORS
H. E. Norman's entry of Leg
horns. from Richland, Ga.. was
the p:n leader for the 32nd week
with a 'ay of 01 eggs. Lebanon
Poudtry Farm’s pen from Leban
on, Va., and Raiert P. Stephen,
entry from Inglewood, Cab, tied
for second place with CO egg.-
Three pens produced 59 eggs to
finish in a tie for fourth place
A lay of 4579 eggs during the
32nd week, brings the average
number of eggs per bird to 138.
The wet k’« lay figure* 64-j Pee
cent. Tho Leghorns and Minor
ca! were the only breed, to lay
better than sixty per cent, the
Leghorns leading with a 09.1 per
"two hundred and twelve egg.
in 224 days to the
high hen in the contest. This bird
is owned fcy Charles A. Shepard
of Winterville, Ga., 1. 1■ Harris
Leghorn No. 398 went into a tie
with Hardman Whita Ughom
Farm'* No. 782 for’second ptoce
among the leading hens. Eight
hens have laid 200 or more eggs,
with four tied for ninth place at
1J The leading I»n. which to own-
e dby L. C. Beall, of Vashon,
Wash., held It. own among the
ten high pen'. Due to the
of a bird to lay during the week
in the second pen the Beall entry
widened the margin between the
first two places nine egga, giv
ing the ma Jeaj^f_22_egg*-
SCALD OUT ANTS
Ant hill, in garden, are a
.cource of trouble a.
plants are often killed. Scald
with fcblBns water treated Wi-h
kerrfetie, or fcettfer *H11, fin a
machine oiler with carton bisul
phide or “high life a "'L sq . u n l £
liberal amounts of it down into
the nerta, immediately covering
the entrance, with mud to pre
vent the poi.onou. ga. from es
caping.
home team wins
LOS ANGELES.—In addition to
a rolling Pin. a hammer, at®"*
crusher and an Instrument to
knock out base hits, » b»“han
bat may be n.ed to repel band!
and burglars. One ofthewk-Uv-
in? gentry stepped Into the store
of I C. Carter Md attempted an
unassisted steal with awooden
gun. Caster saw through the ruse,
however and drove the bandit from
the home plate by means of a
baseball bat.
riDAD merlTCCEC hawks.. She received 164 for
a I 1% \/ la LrluLUuoJuu broilers, $24.90 for eggs and $25
CO-OPERATIVE
MARKETING
We often think of co-operative
marketing aa the co-operative or
ganization of a selling agency for
farm products. Marketing is used
as meaning the same thing as
selling. Two of the most impor
tant cooperative marketin gorga
nizations for handling fruits and
vegetables in the Southeast have
not t’:een a: lling agencies in the
strict sense. I have reference to
the Georgia Peach Growers' Ex
change which has been primarily
a distributing agency without any
noticeable development along the
lines of selling and The Sowega
Melon Grower*' Association. The
peaches of the members of the
cooperative are either sold “cash
track”*by the producer or con
signed to commission merchants
by the exchange. For years th?
co-operative handling of Georgia
peaches has also given intensive
effort toward those physical ele
ments of distribution, freight fa
cilities and rates, refrigeration,
end the re.*ulting claims against
transportation companies when
satisfactory results Were not got
ten. f
The Sowega^ (Melon Growers'
Association, as a cooperative, has
given its particular attention to
the standardization of th? wa
termelon at the shipping points.
This association has virtually
brought a new day and much
prosperity lo the watermelon
growers through its outstanding
success in the fie'd of standards
zatjon. The selling has bc?n ac
complished by agencies over
which the producers have had lit
tle control, excepting that gotten
through contractual delations.
The Sow?ga has followed he prac
tice of con’ractin'* with a sell
ing agency to sell its watermel
ons. Most of the watermelons
have been sold by wire—f. o. b.
usual terms. During the recent
years there has been a tendency
to give more thought to “cash
track” selling.
It would seem likely that the
n*xt stage in developing cooper
ative marketing of fruits and
vegstables from the southeast
will be the actual selling of these
products by the cooperatives.
To accomrl'i/ih this these co
operates will need to do the fol
lowing things;
1. Employ or- train shipping
C int salesmen. If such men can
developed from the personnel
of the producers' organization
viewpoint of producers.
2. Make an intensive - study of
potential demand. Fruits and
vegetables shipped from these
producing sections are highly pe
rishable. The demand varies di
rectly as the quality, price and
distance to market.
3. Study the sound economic
principles underlying price and
demand. For example price va
ries dlrecthr with daily ship
ments, purchasing power, reputa
tion of the sellers, contacts made
through atcual selling and sales
manship influence demand.
4. Arrange to do their own fi
nancing.
GOOD STRAIN
IS NEEDED FOR
, POULTRY PROFIT
“It takes a lot of work to keep
up a poultry farm, even* if it is
just a backyard farm, but It Is
work that I enjoy,” says Miss
Leara Alley, who lives in Forest
City, Ark. “One of the first es
sentials of poultry raising is good
chickens. The breed selected does
not make so much difference, but
it is fundamentally important to
have good foundation stock. A
good strain pays in future ysars."
iMiss Alley’s first experience
with poultry came when she in
dulged th? passing fancy of an
invalid aunt who lived with her
and bought a pen of bantams. In
curing for the bantams she dis-
coveretf that she really enjoyed
poultry and decided to have a
Hock of her own.
She selected White Orpington
and bought her first eggs with
money saved ifrom the sale of
bantam eggs. She raised 10 pul
lets and completed her pen with a
515 rooster.
The rooster whs entered at a
neanby fair and he won a setting
of valuable eggs. That same year
Miss Alley bought a setting of
eggs paying $10 for them. From
this setting she raised only one
bird, on which she bestowed the
name of “Ten Spot”
For 15 years Miss Alley has
continued, raising poultry. Her
present flock oi sUndard bred
White Orpingtons is the result of
many years of successful line
breeding. She has never regret
ted spending money for good
foundation stock. Her birds have
been awardsd 500 prize-winning
ribbons at county, state and tri*
'state fairs. She also won a cup
in an egg show conducted at the
state agricultural college.
Miss Alley keeps her flock of
White Orpihgtons at afcout 50.
A pen of 14 pullets ma0e the fol
lowing record: Jantfafy 163 egg*j
February 238; March 323; April
232; May 308; June 313; July
146; Augutt 208; September 159;
October 21; November 42; De
cember 218. , . a
From this pen she raised 183
chicks out of a hatch of 215 and
saved 100 pullets. The majority
of the chicks lost were caught by channel.
for one cockerel.
In learning to care for poultry
she ha? also learned to use the
hammer and saw. She not only
makes her shipping boxes but al
so tbuilds brooder houses.
Miss AjJey* raise* green feed
in small runs adjacent to her
brooder houses. Fruit trees fur*
wish shade for her flock. She
stil! has on her yard several pens
of bantams and she also raises a
large number of White Leghorns.
One of the crops which offer
very interesting possibilities as a
substitute for corn Is the arti
choke. The fruit of this crop is a
small, warty tuber that has prop*
erties somewhat similar to the po.
tato. In France, where consider
able acreges of artichokes are
grown, it is not uncommon for a
yield 4>f from 600 to 800 or more
bushels per acre to be produced,
Yet no improvement of the crop
by breeding has ever been under,
taken.
The HolsUin-Friesian is the
largest of the special dairy breeds.
Dulls weigh from 1,800 pounds to
2,200 pounds and cows average
around 1,200 to 1,250 pounds. H<5l-
stelns, being large, posses an en
ormous capacity for consuming
feed, especially grass, hays, and
roughages. They are well adapted
to rich lands which produce feeds
In large quantities. Holsteins pro
duce the largest quantity of milk
of any of the dairy breeds, for a
day, a week, a month, or a year.
Now is the time to fight lice and
mites, or you lose and they win.
Sodium fluorid is magical for get
ting .rid of lice. Old crank-case
oil helps, too, painted on the roosts
and sprayed about the roosting
quarters.
The corn-hog ratio, so often re
ferred to In discourses on hog-
geeding, a the number of bushels
of corn that 100 pounds of pork
(live weight) will buy. It is con
sidered profitable to feed hogs
when the ratio is above 11.7, the
average for the last 17 years, rn
1923 the ratio went down to 7.6.
and in June, 1926, it was 20.9.
Save about six pounds of good
legume hay for each bird in your
poultry uocm. 1*1.7,
makes an excellent winter substl.
tuto tor the succulent green teed
which hens thrite on during the
summer.
Alfalfa, red-clover and soybean
hays are about equally valuable.
Regardless of the kind, the prime
requisite Is that the hay be leafy
and ot good quality, and cut before
the plant la too ripe. The leavea
-which shatter from hay being put
Into the barn should be gathered
np and saved for poultry.
By hitching bis five horsea on'
the gang plow three in front and
two behind, instead ot using them
In the old way of two In front
and three behind, a farmer In
Worth county, Iowa, found that be
was able to plow an extra acre
each day.
Farm records in Central Indiana I
for years 1322-26 show that bogs '
paid 97 cents a bnshel for corn
fed to them. If "'o rota had hero
s'id it would bat, brought only
64 cents.
Among the many machines |
which hevo a place Ih the new '
business-method trend of agricul-
ture is the mixed-feed grinder. 1
Many stock farmre in Weaters
Texas are finding that these ma
chines not only make good feeds
better, but convert certain rough
ages, formerly thought useless,
Into palatable nutritious feed.
An acre of onr alfalfa recently
netted us $51.26 worth of reed, it
prodnoed enough hay and saved
enough corn and tankage In fatten
ing pigs to equal that amount.
From the hay-making and pork,
producing standpoints alfalfa is
our greatest swine pasture.
One ot the latest additions to a
well-balanced poultry ration In
molasses. It has been appreciated
by feedera for years that molasBes
had merit, but It was n cumber
some, dirty product tn feed. Now
it Is available In certain manufac
tured feeds. Poultrymen can also
'bay blackstrap molasses and mi*
It with crumbly mnshes.
The Nichols terrace la easy and ,
cheap to build, strong and less’
liable to give trouble should It
overflow. The method of construc
tion Is as follows: A mound of
soil Is built upon the grade line.
Then a water channel Is construct
ed on the uphill side of the mound
by trowing the soil against the
monnd and uphill. ;
The cost ot construction of the ,
Nichols terrace Is very reasonable
since most of the dirt is only
moved to one side. In several tests
on unplowed land a 12-20 tractor
and a one-way multiple disk plow
cutting six feet wide made a sat-1
(•factory terrace with three trips
plowing the dirt to the mound
on the. grade line and three trips
widening and deepening tho water:
CORN SHUCKS VS.
SOYBEAN HAY
Corn shucks are a poor substi
tute for legume hay for dairy
cows. If the cows are on green
narturo jmd only petting a smal
amount of dry roughage, it will
not make muin difference wheth
er this email amount is corn
i«htick« or legume hay, especially
If sufficient grain is fed to meet
me nfeeu.s ot tne cows; but if the
coWs get no green feed and the
entire roughage is to. be either
corii shucks or legume hay, then
thefce will be a very great differ
ence. as we have often expressed
It before, in our opinion the only
suitable roughages for dairy co\v i
arO green feed or pasturage, sit-
age, roots, and legume hay.
{foybean hay contains 11.7 timej
as Vnuch digestible protein as corn
shdeks, 1.7 times as much dige:-
tlble carbohydrates, and 4 times
as hiUcli digestible fat.
If our reader is feeding corn
shucks just as a filler or a3 a
smill amount of dry roughage,
they will serve the purpose, but
if he is feeding shucks instead of
gojfcean hay^for their feed value,
he ii making a mistake.
Om
hays,
Tier for the eastern markets. , due, shortage of small
Tiio tr—lid has been toward the 8 r »in, winter hay and the late-
kusncl basket, as each year'of the has* o' 11 .' 0 ™'. on , ? , 13
last ter. there has been a greater Jj)* 8 true •" feeds are higher
percentage of the total placed in than in many years.
bushel baskets than was market- ^ eas and_ cane are the surest . „ , T
ed/in that way the previous yea*, h*y crops for summer planting.! D. F. Moor^ of Bend. Texas^
Observations made over a per-1 On* and one-half bushels peas, »l “d j™*JJ*t
iod of 15 years in the commercial P«k of cane seed to the ncro, f“® d l ?“ l, v weiS ,J!
t rclrmi* oi Gponria suppest that* a f?ood mixture. Brabham! treca than all tne vast pecan rc-
rt"he? a ETdtout! PO*» ffS more hay to the Eion- orTe^ Oklahomn Ukan-
advantages over the six-basket on faifly good sml while the also including Old Mexico?
carrier, for in spite of the fact thinner soi.s wil yield more to
• * jj 1 the vine varieties, such as un
known or red ripper. Whip’3 will
mature before frost if sown as
late as the 15th of July or even
the first of August.
“Laredo and O-too-tan beans
produce good hay when sown on
good land, using a bushel of seed
Standard arrangement of the! to the acre and seeded with a ..
peaches in each gallon basket of, grain drill. They can bo sown, can tree, and yet you can grow
tho crate. With the introduction broadcast and harrowed in but| twenty to the acre; and it taken
of sizing machinery at the pack-1 (Ee drill is better. Beans will
ing houses, it is easier to have' produce more tonnage to the
uniform sized peaches in a basket acre than anv summer hay cron
than formerly, and the use of ring- *>''t « quire better methods of
in- equipment has added to the Panting and harvesting. Laredo s
appearance of this package. I ' v, |* *fo well planted as late as
Thr six-basket carrier is a crate* July 1st but the O-too-tan shou.d
in which six veneer one-gallon be planted now. Hay made from
Irokets arc carried to market; it the bean crop has about the same
holcfc four-fifths of a bushel by.‘feeding value as that of bright
measurement and slightly mor.j| alfalfa.
' When ncaa nor beans can be
that it has been used, all too efts
a receptacle for left-overs, it
has steadily forged ahead.
Formerly, tho advantage of the
fcix-basket carrier was that in
packing it the packer would select
peaches 01 fair uniformity of size.
This was necessary to make the
than this by weight when cus-
-"*■ternary bulge is accomplished by , had at a reasonable price cattail
mportant value in ^ jhe cost of packing millet makes a cheap roughage
s compared I and packages is slightly more per‘and is mdeh cheaper to seed,
grade roughages, like earn ® •» package for the six-basket car-' Eight to ten pounds seed per acre
: tn :: er ’ ^ ra *,* ^ / Tier than for the bushel basket. is up that is required for a good
geed hulls, etc., la that the feed- —» btand of millet. But the soil
ing of legume hny takes the place
of a part of the grain ration, es
pecially such feeds as wheat bran.
Five cr sir. pounds of legume hay
is equal to four pounds of wheat
bran and if the legume hays are
home grown they are much
cheaper. ^
F1R0R WRITES ON
PACKAGES F0H
PEACHES
Bjr J. W. Firor
Fresh peaches from Georgia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
and other Southern states arc
packed in standard bushdl baskets
or in six-basket carriers almost
to (lie exclusion of .all other pacx-
aget.
During recent years, the gen
eral sentiment has been that the
bushel should be used for western
should be thoroughly harrowed
he'ore planting as the seed should
be covered uniformly to obtain
the best stand. Harvest this crop
ot once after heading os It grows
woody thereafter.
“Perhaps ‘.tie greatest mistake
made on the average farm in
feeding obth work rtock and cat
tle ir the lack of good hay In the
rot on. Even mules can be win
tered on good hay without any
grain. Our dairy rations as a
it is uuuuijr $tn|~»warn. m»» . rule Are too low in roughage.”
plant a large acreage to this crop; Jn the writer’s opinion 5 t Ir. Win-
this time as our small grain cropi g ton Is the best feeder in this
is short and our corn crop late.j country. The records made by the
Mr. A. P. Winston, who is the'cows under his supervision show
farmer on the Agricultural Col-: this plainly- The wort stock
lege campus and who has grown I grown out by him testify to his
more hay on a larger acreage ’ ability at feeding,
than any farmer in this section) High price feed today, the
of Georgia, has the following to shortage of our feed ^rop at this
say about our summer hay crop] time, the lateness of the corn
for this year; crop, the need otmore hay on tho
“The summer hay crop should I farm make it Imperative that we
not be neglected any year but this | plant the biggest hay crop In our
Summer Hay Is
Very Important
Legume Crop
BY L. S- WATSON
County Farm Agent.
Summer hay la possibly the
most important legume crop thd
wt plant during the warm months!
It is doubly important that we
shipments and tho six-basket car- is particularly true at this time history.
II. M. Dudley, proprietor of the
Oglethorpe County Nursery sends
the following from the pen of
Yet the latter grow four-fifths
of the worlds pecans.
Did you»know tiiat the people
in these states spend more money
and use more labor one on cotton
crop than has ever been used on
the pecan industry in its hlstorv?
Yet, they lost money on cotton.
Did you know that we often fedt
one hundred dollars from one i>o-
ten acres for one steer for which
if you get one hundred dollars in
five years, you are doing exceed
ingly well? }
Yet, they have spent millions
on steers to one on pecans* •- i
DiDd you know that the people |
in these states have set out more
hack berry trees and planted more
Johnson grass than pecans?
Yet, they are a nuisance, if not
a curse.
Did you know that the defeated
candidates for governor spend
more money in these statqs..Jn
trying to get a ten thousand dol
lar Job than Is spent to develop
tho peach Industry? « -
Yet, the candidate often hag,to
bo defeated more than dnee."
Did you know that Hickman,
of California, who killed the bank-.
• ers daughter, received morn,Ad-,
vertlsement in one day than, tho.
pecan Industry lias received slhco
It's discovery? Jfc pi
Yet, the pecan is certainly more
beneficial.
Did you know that walnut
ards in California, sell for as
as ten thousand dollars per
and pecan land in these
that pays better can be bought
for one hundred dollars per
FOWL TO SCARCE
ATLANTA—In three year# of
married life she got to eat Chic
ken but twice, Winnie Spruell, DO,
complained In seeking a divorce
from her husband, 81-year-old
Confederate veteran. And obth
times, she continued, the chick
ens had been run over by auto
mobiles.
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