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Every Family Should Keep
A Dairy Cow To Help
Decrease High Cost Of Living
Dr. Andrew M. Soule, State College Of Agriculture
The dairy cow was never a greater
factor in the health of the nation
than at the present time Never in
our history probably have edible fats
been scarcer or higher than they are
at present Union unatriv there is no
relief in sight for a considerable per
iod of linn because European dairy
herds suffered more as a result ol
the war probably than any other class I
of animal.- This was due not onlyj
to their destruction over large sec-!
tlons of (he invaded territory, but to
the fact that fodders were so scarce
and high in price that many dairy
cows had lo be sla lghterod. It a.so
happened that the cows kept could
n • be fed sufficiently weij to stim
ulate milk production, and it will be
some months before a return to any
thing like normal conditions in the
piatter of feed' supplies tan be ex
pei led.
It will he interesting, even though
astonishing news to our people, lo
know (hat while England has lost a
million men in the war she has in a
measure offset this tremendous loss
by taking heiier care of the mothers
pnd babies during the war period
than she did it; peace times. This
Mfi'ins to he an anomalous situation
and at lirst apparently unexplainable.
]l .voilld indicate on he surface th&i
England bus apparently not diminish
ed her dairy herds and lias had an
abundance of food for them. The:
opposite of this, however, i- true.
Flow, then, we- this apparent miracle
brought about ' Simply by the luct 1
that the governun at through its
Food Administration took over the
control of milk and butter in England
and by regulating the consumption of
butter and forbidding the use of milk
except to those confined in hospitals
and for mothers and children made
tht reduced supply available and suf
ficient to meet the needs of the popu
lation. Thu by this drastic action of.
government Ureal Britain was able to
save a larger percentage of the chil
dren boro than ever before in her
history. Two things are evident from
this. First, that milk is an essential
necessity to the child, and, second,
to the mother an well.
There are a great many people on
the verge of giving; .jip their cows no
matter where they are situated They |
are burdened by the labor involved
in caring for the cow. Feed is dd
flcult to obtain and it is high in price.
The dairy utensils have to be wash !
ed and put away twice a day. lu
the eyes of many the cow is a nuis
ance If cotton is bringing a big
price and there is a demand for such
crops as peanuts and for such animals
as hogs why trouble about the dairy
cow'.' Simply because she is one of
those institutions with which we can
not dispense except at a loss vital to
our national interests. To those who
have a cow, therefore, let me say.
keep her. To those who do not pos
sess a cow and can secure one, bay
one.
Of course, a cow must have some;
range on which to gather food. She!
must have a suitable stable in which
to Use Hut thero are literally ill Otis ,
amis of homes in the southeast where
Corn Diseases Which Cause
Farmers Great Loss %■
May Be Easily Controlled
The common discuses of corn as |
■mut, rust, root rots and car rota are
not difficult to control and the cos';
of prevention amounts to only a
small fraction of a per cent of lb*
value of the crop produced, n*ys Prof
Janies It. IJncry. Plant! Pathologist of
he Ooorgia State doling* of Agri
oulhn-v. I'tie fltianctal loss to Ueorgla
fanners tuna iuto many million* of
dollars aad consvuvaUv* Mtimates
show tiiai approximately 1,000 pounds
of be*t and li&i) |*)imds of pork could
be produced If the oorn losl through
disease in every 50-aeie add wore fed
to cattle and hogs.
Crop rotation le the chief measure
of prevention and an a factor in crop
production it h.is been advocated for
years by agricultural experts. -Prof.
Bury sa>s that control measures
must include.
Crop relation Most diseases re
"carried over" from one crop to
■ no,her In tue soil or on diseased
■talks of ihe old crop. If a roelat&nt
crop is planted the disease organisms
di out.
Seed select on Tho selection of
■eed from strong, productive disease
free plants will lend lo produce iodi
vidtials which xr* resistant w <Ji*'
nine If tho *< actio* of careful need
kfevetion Is carried out over a period
of year* the result will b* a strain
piarkediy resistant to disease.
Avoid Ui application of raaaura
r- ’’iting from dlao&aed fodder or
tc i V) fields to be planted to earn.
IV u. 'atoms productag smut and
these conditions prevail to which the
dairy cow ia a stranger. These same
people are not earning sufficient
money, nor will they ever he able to
earn sufficient to buy and use milk
and dairy products in thp amount
which would be possible if they kept
a cow. They are under the impres
sion that if they spend more of
their money for meat and other so
called concentrated and, relatively
l speaking, difficultly digestible foods
they are and tig the right and proper
thing for the family. This is one of
those hid< ous mistakes which we
have not as yet been able to correct.
As to the feed, a word of suggestion
i hose who have cows on hand and
v. ho live either on the farm or in
our small towns and cities and are
wandering just at this time how and
what lo feed the cow to maintain her
n< st economically. It is true that
feeds are very high, therefore we
should figure on purchasing those
which supply the largest unit of nu
trition at the lowest cost. In the
matter of concentrated foods, cotton
seed meal lias been considered the
moat economical. However, peanut
meal, as it now comes on the market,
will ruu it a < lose second, and velvet
bean meal will sland about third. The
question is, may these concentrates
be ii-ed separably or in combination
to advantage? The answer is, yes.
Cottonseed meal should not be fed
to a cow weighing *OO to 1,000 pounds
in larger amounts than 4 to 5 pounds
per day. This will supply her with
all Hie protein she needs. She will
I lien he obtaining as much Of this
element as if we fed her three times
as much wheat bran or four times as
much corn meal. A little more pea
nu meal may be fed it desirable, sav
anywhere from G to 8 pounds. Of
velvet bean inoal, about the same
amount may be fed. Under existing
conditions it will probably pay to feed
these concentrates to dairy cows.
As to lhe roughage, give Ihe cow
an much range as possible. This may
not be a lot over 100 feet square, hut
keep her out in the open when the
weather is favorable, and if the lot is
covered with sod there will be some
slight picking of advantage to her
which she will relish and appreciate.
As to the roughage to use. any form
may lie fed with a considerable
amount or satisfaction Hulls at the
present price can lie fed in the pro
portion of about 5 pounds of hulls to
one pound of concentrates with quite
satisfactory results In the place of
hulls one may use shredded corn
stover, pulled fodder, sorghum and
peavine hay. pea vine hay, peanut
hay, alfalfa mixed with tame hays, or
mixed itinie hays.
If your cow is worth keeping she
will give you about two gallons of
milk for a period of ten months. This
milk at present prices is worth some
thing like $1.20 to SI.BO a day. You
can certainly fe-d and maintain
your cow for a smaller price than
this. Milk properly used may lie
made to constitute with eminent sat
isfaction one-fourth to one-half of the
daity ration of the family The dairy
cow, therefore, seems like a worth
while inveataieni.
oqr rot ara often spread through ’he
us* uf dtsuasod uiauuw. Ucavy ap
plications of nitrogenous fertilizer*
tend to Increase the damage from
physoderma and smut
Frequent inspection* of the tteldn
should lie made for evidence of dl
.-awe Smut masses should he gather
ed and burned before the membrane
Croatia, oven though It involve* the
destruction or an oceaaional plant.
Uadty diseased plants produce nothing
of value in the way of grain or fod
l-*r and simply spread the disease.
Insects must he controlled, since
•hoy serve as carriers for disuse
spores or make wounds through
which the disease spores gain en-
I tram - \ An wu worm often destroys
hut a small port of the grata on the
cob while tho accompanying rot may
compute the destruction of the ear.
The same Is undoubtedly true of
insect damage to the roots and the
action of the root rot organisms. The
destruction of the "winter quarters”
and the adoption of crop eolation will
gFagtljt reduce the amount of ingeet
damage The ear worm winters over
Id til* oti near lb* damaged
plan' and emerges in the spring ready
for th* nsw crop latte fall plowing
wlli expose the worm to luclomsut
wwatlier condition* and rotation wilt
introduce a crop unsavory to his
pnJuAe.
Control uieasurs* involve ueithsr
sx pon*ive peraimas nor the adoption
of atsily machinery- -simply 'h
*uloput-m of oovrwitju *eas" methods
of ocou production
THE BARROW TIMES, WINDER, GEORGIA.
‘ FARMERS AND OTHER BUSI
NESS MEN.”
\\'o need a good Storage Ware
house here so as to lit* in position
to take cure of the cotton ami oth
er staple products that are and
should lc brought here.
At the present time there is not
a real storage warehouse this side
of Atlanta and when one thinks of
the many thousand bales of good
cotton that are now, and have al
ways in the past years been out
taking the weather we realize the
urgent NECESSITY of a Storage
Warehouse.
An example of loss by weather
damage is as follows, and there
arc many other farmers who had
and have had for years the same
experience. A local cotton buyer
of Jackson County bought a 50
hale lot of cotton from a farmer
last year that averaged 05 pounds
per hale loss due 1o weather da
mage which was at thirty rents
per pound $10.50 per bale, and
when the local buyer sold this lot
of cotton he lost $4.00 per bale
more on account of weather da
mage. Making a total weathere da
mage on this 50 bale lot ot cotton
of $1175.00
,\1 the present time the total an
nual loss to the cotton raisers due
to weather damage in these United
States is about $35,000,000 accord
ing to United States statistics.
Take a ride in an automobile
now all the small towns around
Winder and in these towns you
can hardly pass in the streets be
cause they are so crowded with
cotton. As you go through the
country at a large number of the
farm homes you will see coton
out in the weather.
This fall and many times in the
past years the farmers for several
miles around Winder would haul
their cotton to town either to
store or sell it and because the lo
cal market warehouses were so full
they would have to carry it back
home or to some other town. I
know of many eases like this and
we all know in the future we do
not want it to happen again.
If we bad a storage warehouse
here that would store about twen
ty to twenty-five thousand bales
of cotton then we could with our
local market warehouses take care
of till the cotton brought here by
wagon and trucks also store sever
al thousand bales that would he
shipped in from other towns. At
the present time and price aware
house of this size would take care
of about four or five million dol
lars worth of cotton, and of course
that would surely increase each
and all of our business enterprises.
We should build this warehouse
under the Federal Warehouse Act
plans or in other words have it a
Bonded Warehouse so that any
and all Ueceipts would he Negoti
able at any Bank. Another very
| important feature to a Bonded
Warehouse is that we could bor
row about eighty per cent of the
value of our cotton at six per cent
interest per annum, and in that
way market our crop gradually in
stead of all at one time of the year
as has been the case in the past.
I have talked with quite a num
ber of our leading farmers and
other business men in the past
few weeks about building a Bond
ed Storage Warehouse here and
one all say it is what we need.
I wish to call a meeting to be
held next Tuesday afternoon Nov
ember 2fth, at two-thirty o’clock
in the courthouse for the purpose
of discussing plans toward build
ing a Storage Warehouse here
and he ready for business by next
fall. I hope that all farmers and
other business men in our county
and the neighboring counties who
are interested in a Bonded Storage
Warehouse will be present with us
at this meeting.
Do not forget the DATE, TIME
and PLACE of the MEETING.
Yours for service,
W HILL HOSCH, County Ag
ricultural Agent.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER