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The Dawn of a New Constructive Era 



Best Silage 

 Foods for 

 Coastal Plain 

 States 



Experiments 

 With Grasses 



has amounted to about $1,700. So far it has been a pretty good 

 financial proposition. 



Now, as to the work of the College in taking it to the people : 

 This is a summary of the work by the county agents. Our 

 county agents have inoculated hogs and cattle for cholera to the 

 number of about 65,000. The pure bred animals purchased 

 through the county agents and the specialists of the Department 

 of Agriculture, who are co-operating with these men, has 

 amounted in the past year to over 7,000 head brought into the 

 state ; and that is where we are trying to correct the low valua- 

 tion in live stock. 



Now, in regard to the food proposition : We have been ad- 

 vocating the building of silos over the state of Georgia, and we 

 are advocating, as a crop for the Coastal Plain, a mixture of 

 kaffir corn and sorghum. We have suggested the red head 

 sorghum and the black kaffir corn. 



The silage and velvet bean, we believe, solves the problem 

 of carrying the animal in the Coastal Plain region at least 

 through the winter months. The problem, as we see it, is that 

 it is a limiting factor in cattle production in the Coastal Plain 

 region, and it is a limiting factor especially in the months of 

 July, August and September. Now, if we can solve that prob- 

 lem- I believe we can help establish on a permanent basis the 

 cattle business of the South. 



We started out to make an inventory of what we had and 

 what could be utilized, and we have a young man who is spend- 

 ing part of his time studying the growth of the Coastal Plain 

 section ; and, incidentally, there we found one man who had 

 been for the past fifteen years utilizing a pasture of grass and 

 lespedeza with apparently pretty good success. That probably 

 will not be adopted except in a limited area, but in that area it 

 might be a solution of the problem. At the present time we are 

 recommending the carpet grass, as Dr. Piper suggested. The 

 only two grasses we have found, of the ordinary tame grasses, 

 that justify continuous work with them is the red top and 

 meadow grass. In one case we have gotten good results from 

 work of that kind. 



We have two areas in the Coastal Plain in which we are 

 trying to study in a similar way the forage crop situation for 

 that section of the state, and we hope before a great while to be 

 able to increase this and to do more work. 



