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REFUSE OF SORGHUM
IS GOOD RATTLE FEED
So a Feeding Test Held At Tal
ino, Georgia, Shows.
That sorghum refuse, called bagasse,
ft a very cheap feed when combined
wall cotton seed meal and velvet beans
has been shown by a feeding test car
ried on by the State College of Agri
culture at Talmo last winter. The
bagasse was a by-product of the man
ufacture of sorghum syrup and gave
•excellent results as a feed.
It was fed as a roughage for one
hundred and ten days and in deter
mining the final results it was charged
at $5 a ton. The velvet beans were
charged at $24 a ton and the cotton
sc > d meal at $45 a ton. When all the
expenses had been paid there was a
profit of $3.53 a head and in addition
there were three hundred loads of
good stable manure worth approxi
mately three dollars a load.
The bagasse contained from 1.2 to
1 4 times as much digestible material
is corn sorghum, and the fifty native
bred Shorthorn and Hereford steers
to which it was fed made an average
daily gain of 1.61 pounds per head for
the entire period. It proved to be an
excellent carbonaceous feed.
It has been well recognized for a
number of years that cottonseed meal
is a good concentrate for finishing off
beef cattle but (here has always been
a shortage of carbonaceous feeds for
roughage. In this feeding experiment
material that had formerly been al
lowed to go to waste was conserved
ind proved itself to be a very cheap
source for roughage for feeding with
-such concentrates as cottonseed meal
ind velvet beans. Now since, Geor
gia is so well adapted to the growing
•<f -orgbum, and since there is a world
shortage of sugar, thousands of gal
lons of this syrup should be produced
and the refuse fed to dairy and beef
cattle, and not be allowed to go to
waste. —Editor State College of Agri
culture.
TWO MiLUON TONS OF
COAL M BE SAVED
In Georgia That War Industries
May lie Supplied.
By burning wood Georgians must
-,:ve two million tons of coal this win
ter iu order that our rapidly growing
var industries may be fully supplied,
rhe governmenut used lift y million
•mis last year in its war activities,
but this year it will need approximate
ly one hundred and fifty million tons.
It is almost impossible for the mines
o greatly increase their output in
view of the serious shortage of labor,
and hence all of the extra coal that
is needed by the government must be
-aved by the people. Georgia’s share
in the saving is 6.000,000 tons.
Coal is the very basis of the activi
ties of our armies. There is not a
-ingle war commodity or activity
that is not dependent on coal, that
has not directly or indirectly the pow
er of coal somewhere in its production.
r it takes coni to operate munition
lants, move troops by rail, propel
ransport ships, keep our navy on
guard, and then move food, soldiers
and munitions to the front. Coal is
the fuel best adapted to war purposes.
When we burn wood, we not only re
lease coal for war purposes but wo
relieve the congestion of the railroads,
clearing the tracks that men and sup
plies may move more rapidly towards
the front.
The relative heat value of wood to
oal is much higher than is ordinari
ly thought. One cord of seasoned ash,
iak or hickory is equivalent to one
on of soft coal. The fuel value de
creases with pine, cypress and cotton
wood, and with the amount of season
ing. Our wood supply in Georgia is
large enough to supply all our needs.
The annual growth of cord wood
greatly exceeds the annual consump
ion and this will still hold true if
wood entirely replaced coal for home
aise.
If every family in Georgia would
educe its consumption of coal by fif
y per cent, the amount asked of us
by the Government could be easily
-aved. Many families in the rural dis
ricts will find it possible to entirely
replace coal with wood. In every case
coal must be used economically. The
Federal Fuel Administration will en
deavor to distribute what little coal
that will be allowed for this state, to
only the largest cities that need it
worst and to those industrial plants
manufacturing products essential to
the war.
Farmers who have cut larger sup
plies of wood than they need, should
get in touch with their county agents
and local fuel administrators. These
men are co-operating and are ready to
assist farmers in marketing their
'wood. , 'oo ’.5 'tit
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must raise wheat
% for our Armies and
fa % for our Allies ...
ils*
• r D. B. Osborne, Chairman Soil Improve
’ ' lllm ment Committee, Atlanta, Ga. " Aa&T
4) Wheat is the most important War Crop,
(y Until its production is increased still more
* there will not be enough to remove the dan
ger of a Food Shortage from the Front.
Of twelve most important Food Crops, the entire
country gained in planted acreage in 1917 over acreage of
1914—26,124,000 acres.
Of this gain the Southern States increased 14,965,000
acres or 57 per cent of the whole.
Of the individual crops the South gained:
In Wheat—l,976,ooo acres, or 56 per cent of the whole.
In C0rn—6,582,000 acres, or 41 per cent of the whole.
In Other Food Cr0p5—6,407,000 acres, or 37 per cent
of the whole. /
Of the wheat acreage of 1918 there was an in
crease of 3,067,000 acres, of which the South gained 2,332,-
000 acres, or 76 per cent.
But we can do still better in 1919.
Let’s back up Our Boys in France. It is no less our
duty to furnish them and our allies food than it is their
duty to fight. We are raising this fall an ample cotton crop
to clothe and provide edible fats and oils for our boys. Let
us raise a big grain crop next spring to help feed them.
It can be done. The labor requirements are compara
tively small, and the acre yields may be increased with good
seed, a well prepared seed bed and a liberal application of
proper fertilizers.
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