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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1918)
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 vyx 'V*V * •’* 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. 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