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Growing Animals
on the Farm
Eight Studies In the Growing of
Our Own Live Stock.
EDITOR'S WOTK.
The Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Arkansas, in co-operation
with the United States Department of
Agriculture. will offer this year,
through this paper, a free correspond
ence course in “The Grow'ing of Farm
Animals." These lessons will appear
In this paper at intervals of six weeks.
Those who wish to take this course
should write to the Director of Exten
sion Division of the University of Ar
kansas. at Fayetteville, stating name,
a^e, occupation, and stating that he
(or she) proposes to carry the work
through for the eight lessons. A farm
ers’ bulletin will be sent to supplement
lesson No. 1, and later for each lesson
if the question blank be returned for
the preceding lesson. These question
blanks will be sent with eaeh bulletin.
Preceding lessons may be had on re
quest. The additional lessons on The
Growing of Faun Animals will be: (4)
"Growing and Feeding Ueef Cattle;”
(5) “Hog Raising:" (6) “Growing
Horses and Mules;" (7) "Sheep and
Goat Raising;” (8J "Stock Farm Man
agement.”
GROWING ANIMALS ON THE
FARM
No. 4. Growing Beef Cattle.
By H. E. Dvorachek, Professor of Ani
nial Husbandry, University of
Arkansas.
The growing of beef cattle has al
ways been at its best where pasture
Is plentiful, so that cattle can feed
themselves a good share of the time.
Besides pastures, the growing of for
age crops is essential to cheap produc
tion. Of the forage crops the, legumes
are especially desirable. The long
pasture season on nutritious, native 1
grasses and the adaptability of Ar- 1
Kansas conditions to the growing of
legumes should make the production
of beef cattle profitable.
The proper wintering of the beef
cow is an important matter. The prac
tice of allowing the cow to rough It
through the winter without any pro
vision of feed by the owner is utterly
wrong. An unthrifty condition is
bound to result and the cow comes
out of the winter too thin, in many
, cases, to give birth to a strong calf,
much less provide an abundant flow
of milk which is so necessary to
; start the calf off right, and keep it
growing until it is old enough to util
ize pasture. The ration for breeding
cows need not be expensive. In fact,
if silage can be provided, and there
is no reason why it cannot, on a large
majority of Arkansas farms, ano some
dried roughage, preferably one of the
legumes, can he given, no grain will
be necessary to bring cows out in the
spring in splendid condition. If the
dried roughage must be such crops
as the sorghums, Sudan grass, or na
tive grasses, a few pounds of cotton
seed meal will supply the protein re
qiilrement very cheaply.
If the calf is given plenty of milk
by the cow on pasture, and pastures
are abundant, it should come in in
the fall at weaning time in excellent
condition, and from early spring calv
ing, should weigh between four and
five hundred pounds. The first win
ter is the critical time in the life of
a beef calf. At weaning time it should
be eating sufficiently well so that the
loss of milk will work little hardship.
Instead of the common practice of let
ting such weanlings go through the
winter trying to make an existence on
some poor unpalatable dried roughage,
it will be found economical to feed
quite liberally on a more wholesome
ration. Where calves are roughed
through, they generally lose as much
as a hundred pounds in weight, which
it takes them half the following sum
mer to regain, besides losing quality
which can never be regained. Tile
ration fed should be conducive to
growth rather than to fattening. Here
again the succulence of silage is very
desirable as well as the legumes to
supply protein and mineral matter.
Instead of cottonseed meal, oats is ex
cellent when not too expensive. The
requirement of grain should be
gauged by the results desired. Cotton
seed meal is not safe tor feeding
calves and should not be used. A
small amount of corn if legumes are
used for roughage could be used. If
crowded too much during the first
winter the gains on pasture file fol
lowing summer, however, are general
ly disappointing.
The fattening of beef cattle in Ar
kansas lias thus far been successful
only to a limited extent. Our class of
cattle and feed available have made
the short periods of fattening, say
ninety days, more profitable than the
long periods of say one hundred and
eighty days. The grain rations neces
sary for the long periods lias proved
too expensive although the Arkansas
feeder has a very cheap and efficient
concentrate in cotton seed meal. How
ever, it cannot be fed in large quan
i tities for only the short period and
the corn-fed finish cannot be attained
with cotton seed meal alone. As tiie
growing of corn becomes more gen
eral, the time will come when rue
finishing of cattle can be done as well (
and as profitably in Arkansas as it is
now being done in the corn belt states
and perhaps even more so.
The greatest needs of Arkansas lor
the profilable growing and fattening
of beef cattle are the eradication of
he fever tick so that cattle can maue
i normal growth, the introduction of
letter blood through good sires, which
will quickly follow tick eradication,
rnd a better understanding of stock
?rowing so that the favorable condi
tions which pre ail can be taken ad
vantage of to the fullest extent.
What the Duke Said.
The duke of Wellington, of course,
never said “Up, guards, and at ’em!”
at Waterloo, but is it generally known
how near he came to saying it? Sir
Herbert Maxwell, in his biography of
the duke, points out what is the prob
able origin of the pleasing legend. Late i
on the afternoon of that memorable |
June 18 the First and Second Battal
ions of the Third Chasseurs were
foremost in the attack on Mont Saint
•lean. They had reached a crossroad,
unaware that the British'troops were
lying behind the wayside hanks ac
cording to orders, to remain prone
when under lire, but not actually en
gaged. Then, at the proper moment,
Wellington s voice was heard, "clear
above the storm,” ‘‘Stand up, guards! ’
It was Maitland's brigade of Guards
that thus “stood up.' and, with a vic
torious rush, swept the chasseurs out
of the combat.—Manchester Guardian,
The Uses and Abases
of Fertilizers
A Serlo* of Six Articles Wltlch
Should lie of Valuable AnmI*tattce
to A«;rict«Iturlatm ami Horticullur
Iwt.s of ArkaiiKHM—By l*rof. K. J.
II. S)c liO:a'h, lilrcctor of (lieorKla
i:\jMTiment Station.
5. FERTILIZERS AND HORTICUL
TURE.
The fruit and vegetable growers are
| always leaders in the use of plant
i foods for their crops. This is espe
cially true of the vegetable growlers.
What they wish is rapid growth in
I heir produce, so that they will get
the vegetables on the market in the
shortest possible time from the time
of planting. This is the secret of
success with vegetables, and the only
way to. meet such conditions is to ap
i ply fertilizers in large quantities, in
j the next paper we shall tell about the
i “home garden” and how to fertilize
it. In the present paper we are to
tell more particularly about fruit
trees and other horticultural plants.
The relation of apple growing ,o
fertilizers has never been very care
fully worked out. We know that the
use of fertilizers with fruit trees, and
especially apples, pays, but we have
not yet worked out the best formulae
for the various kinds of trees, nor the
amounts which pay best. Brisbin
says, in his book on "Trees and Tree
Planting,” that in planting young
trees large quantities of manure
should be used in preparing the place
for planting. These manures should
be rich in plant food elements if the
trees are expected to make rapid
growth. The best way to increase
the plant food in manures is to add
to the manures the mineral elements
in various forms, and mix with leaf
mold and manure’s. Brisbin also rec
ommends that weeds should not he al
lowed to grow around the apple trees,
as they will take up the plant food
which is put down for young trees.
The best method of producing
fruit is to keep the field or orchard
clean by growing other crops which
require constant attention and culti
vation. Most farmers and horticul
turists fertilize the crops that grow
in the orchard, and in this wav save
the expense of fertilizing the fruit
trees again. In many instances le
gumes are grown as a cover crop,
and, incidentally, to furnish nitrogen.
The orchard cannot be cultivated too
deeply, or injury will result. It needs
to he cultivated shallow', and manures
or fertilizers applied in reasonable ;
quantities. While it is necessary to
put fertilizers near the trunk of the
tree, yet the roots scatter pretty well
aver an orchard, and the plant food
that happens to fall further away
from the trunk is not lost.
A largo crop of apples or peaches
lakes from the soil much plant food,
such as nitrogen, potash and phos
phoric acid, and unless this is sup
plied from time to time, the trees will
prove less fruitful and finally bear
very little fruit, and what they do
hear will be of poor quality. The ar
gument that old trees in pastures
hear good fruit is not sound, be
cause renditions prevail in many iso
lated places this way that cannot be
duplicated in the orchard. Many
times it is the natural leaf mold,
woods earth, droppings from animals,
and other materials carrying available
plant food that make the fruit on
| such trees. Besides, such fruit is
rarely ever as excellent and delicious
as that grown in a well-kept orchard.
Bruit, like all other kinds of field and
garden crops, must be forced more
or less to measure up to a high stun
dard. To force tlie fruit, and at the
same time keep the land fertile, we
must apply to the soil as much fertil
izer as the crop takes from it.
Fruit trees demand in their growth
a fertilizer rather rich in potash and
phosphoric acid, but not very rich in
nitrogen. It was found that the citrus
trees in California at the Riverside
Experiment Station grew better fruit
and did better every way with a com
plete fertilizer than with any single
r iant food element, or any incomplete
combination. It was also found that
the acid requirements of these trees
were more complett Iv supplied with
sulphate of ammonia than from any
other nitrogen source.
Many of the experiment stations
have secured good results from fertil
izing orchards, hut none quite so good
as tlie Ohio station. F^H Ballou, in
charge of work with apples, says:
“To sum up the results in increased
fruit production from the use of
chemical fertilizers on the very thin
orchard land in southeastern Ohio,
taking into consideration all our dif
ferent plots at the various places cov
ering 60 miles of country, we have
the following: .
Average per acre, per year fertil
ized. '100 barrels.
Average per acre, per year unfertil
ized. 44 barrels.
Gain per acre, per year, from fertil- !
ization, 56 barrels.
Cost of gain per barrel, per year,
17.S cents.
This is the strongest endorsement
for the use of commercial fertilizers
in orchards that we have yet seen, i
and shows how it is possible to in- \
crease the incomes from an orchard
by the wise use of the proper kinds
of fertilizers. Prof. Maurice A. Blake
of the New Jersey Experiment Station
recommends an application of 450
pounds of fertilizer per acre with
peaches. Prof. Starnes of tiie Geor
gia Experiment Station tried many
formulas at the Georgia station sev
eral years ago on peaches, and found
that in every case the fertilizers paid.
LODGE DIRECTORY
ROWLAND LODGE N®. 594 F.*& A.
' M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o'clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
L. M. Despain, W. M.
C. A. Berry. Sec y.
HOWARD CHAPTER. No. 122. R A
M. meets every first and third T .
Jay evening at Masonic hall .
companions welcome.
L. G. Gibson H. P.
D. F. Collett, Secy.
I HUTT1G CHAPTER No. Z2r O, c,
| the Eastern Star, meets every lust and
i child Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. J. A. Brig. ao. W. ivl
Mrs. L. G. Gibson. Sec'
HUTTIG LODGE No 543 1 O. j. i
meets every Tue-. lay ;■ ning V *
brethern cord;aliy incited to ittend.
E. L. Ware N. (j
Har’an Se >cv.
H 1 HG ii L I.
• rets every M . a t : U
Visitors are invit- u.
M'S Lou i i .
Miss Murray Pii.i ton, ^ ,.
SWEET BAY Camp' N
neets e Vr ry fi rst a n J t: i i .... .r 4 y e ve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
C. A. McCormick. C. C.
J. C Bridges. ClerK.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 145, W. 1;..
meets every second and fourth Thursday
night at 7:30 o’clock. Visitors are cor
dially invited.
Mrs. W. R Dickerson. Guardain.
Mrs, C. A. McCormick, Clerk.
fttILROU* riYIE TVJLE.
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LITTLE ROCK A MONROE
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Monroe ...
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FARM EH V ILL r A SOUTHfc.RN RV.
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tArrives Monday. Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
^Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe.
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Time is in the Beginning
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Making needed repairs about your place just now will prepare you
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