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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. Ifsjasbua Wodoap Blankets <if lifilLi'' ." L ur ~ ro "' ‘Uhsl- L' '/ V; of Pure Cotton Warro^^^^ liy WINTER chills don’t disturb the sleeper tucked ■ under these fluffy blankets. Inexpensive in fc 111 1 price, they are unusually warm. In sizes and colors jegsm m suitable for every bed. They are strong, and moths ffw jjll ■ will not touch them. Easy to wash. Buy yours today, while our stock is complete. Blankets! Blankets! Notwithstanding the fact that we have already sold more blankets up to this time than we ever sold in an entire winter season, we are still supplied with many unusual values in blankets. We purchased these goods during the summer months at a time when goods were cheaper than they are at the present time. We give you the benefit which means a great saving for you. We are showing cotton, cotton mixed and all wool blankets. If it is blankets you are in need of, we ask that you call and inspect our line. Kilgore- Kelly Cos. “THE HOME OF QUALITY” Have yon seen the ■iOk. J ordon ? • Its absoluetly the best and moS substantial built car on the market for the monev. Call for demon % miration. Carrington Bros. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER