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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 141
how to grease my cattle with cottonseed oil, and I have had no
trouble for the last five years.
"I can pasture my cows about nine months, and during the
months of December, January, and February they are on part
pasture; in the summer, in addition to pasture, I feed a ration
of about five pounds of cottonseed meal and ten pounds of hulls,
and in winter I feed about the same rations with all the silage
they will eat.
"I find that I can produce such cheap feed in the shape of fod
der, corn and sorghum and can put up silage so cheaply that I have
been gradually cutting down my pasture and doing more stall
feeding. I plant a variety of corn for silage called Mexican
June, and it makes five to fifteen tons of ensilage per acre. It is
the tallest corn I ever saw, some of the stalks reaching fifteen and
sixteen feet in height, and the amount of silage it makes to the
acre depends on the land and the season as well as the amount of
fertilizer and work put upon it. My land has been so enriched
by the cattle that it will yield three times what it would six years
ago. Some of my land when I bought it would not grow more
than a quarter or a third of a bale of cotton per acre, but last
season the same land made a bale to the acre. I paid $18.00 per
acre for my land in 1900, and have since refused $120 per acre
FINE HOLSTEIN, BEUCHLER DAIRY FARM, FULTON COUNTY