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Iht RURAL. NEW*YORKER 
January 14, 1922 
Use the Tl-O-GA Dairy Feed 
which forms a balanced ration 
with your own roughage. 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
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The Cost of 
Dairy Feed 
The cost of dairy feed is not a correct guide 
to its value as an economical feed for milk pro¬ 
duction. One feed may be cheap at $40.00 per 
ton while another may be dear at $30.00 per 
ton. 
It all depends on the cost of the elements 
in the feed which cows can turn into milk and 
how well these combine with the variety of 
roughage fed. The value of a feed is determined 
by what it will produce and not by what it 
costs. 
TIOGA 
1 FEED SERVICE 
reduces your monthly feed bill by furnishing 
feeds which will combine with your home grown 
roughage and produce milk at lowest cost. 
With their use, you convert more of your rough- 
age into milk and by using the right Tioga 
Dairy Feed you have the additional advantage 
of maintaining a ration of like nutritive value, 
no matter how often you change from one va-. 
riety of roughage to another. 
Tioga Feed Service has adapted science to 
every day use in: 
RED BRAND TIOGA DAIRY FEED to be fed 
with low protein succulent roughage, silage, pasturage, 
green fodder, etc. 
WHITE BRAND TIOGA DAIRY FEED to be fed 
with medium protein dry roughage; timothy hay, mixed 
hay, corn fodder, etc. 
BLUE BRAND TIOGA DAIRY FEED to be fed 
with high protein dry roughage; clover hay, alfalfa, etc. 
Send for our booklet on TIOGA FEED SERVICE 
which tells you what feed to use with your roughage to 
produce milk at the lowest cost. 
Tioga Mill & Elevator Co. 
Waverly, N. Y. 
The same careful service is 
furnished through: 
EGATINE 
the feed that makes bens lav 
TI-O-GA Calf Food 
the food that 
makes calves grow 
Tl-O-GA 
Fancy Recleaned Seed Oats 
Treated for Smut 
Grain with Silage and Alfalfa 
My cows are grade Holsteins, medium 
weight. Roughage is corn silage, well 
eared, a bushel morning and night, with 
second and third cuttings of Alfalfa at 
noon, all they will clean up. I have corn 
on the cob. some oats, and can buy almost 
any feeds, excepting cottonseed. 
New York. c. e. w. 
With corn silage and second cutting 
Alfalfa hay you have a base for an ideal 
ration for milking cows. I should con¬ 
fine a grain ration intended as a supple¬ 
ment to this combination to a mixture 
I consisting of 400 lbs. nf hominy, 250 lbs. 
j of bran, 100 lbs. of gluten. 200 lbs. of 
oilmeal, 50 lbs. of cottonseed meal. 
Cornroeal can be used in lieu of hominy 
meal, and if it is impossible for you to 
secure the linseed meal, use .‘100 lbs. of 
gluten feed. Allow the cows all of the 
silage and Alfalfa hay that they will 
clean up with relish, and feed 1 lb. of 
this grain ration to each 3K> lbs. of milk 
produced per day. Make sure that they 
have free access to salt. 
Feeding Sheep 
I Lave a small flock of Rambouillet 
sheep, and about all fodder we have for 
them is Timothy bay and corn silage 
Wlmt amount of grain by weight do you 
think advisable to feed ewes weighing 
100 lbs. or more, and what kind? I hare 
a flock of grade lambs, not bred. Would 
it do to feed them all the silage they will 
eat? ' d. H. 
New York. 
Timothy hay has been used successfully 
for breeding ewes. When it is relied 
upon to provide all of the roughage if 
would be well to supplement it with a 
grain ration of five parts of oats, three 
parts of bran and two parts of cornmeal. 
A ewe weighing 100 lbs. should be fed 
from to % lb. per day of this grain 
mixture. The limbs would do well if fed 
the same grain ration, although the 
sprinkling of linseed meal in the ration 
would improve its quality. 
There is a difference of opiuion as to 
the value of silage for sheep; hut it has 
been my observation that, where the 
amount has been limited, and provided the 
silage is free from mold or decay, it pro¬ 
vides an economical source of digestible 
nutrients. Of course it is necessary to 
bring them to a full feed of silage gradu¬ 
ally rather than to place them on full 
food on short notice. I should reduce the 
amount of silage as the lambing period 
approached, in order to bo on the safe 
side. 
Feeding Jersey Cow 
Please give a correct ration for my Jer¬ 
sey cow. I have cornmeal, bran and oil- 
meal, and can get almost uuythiug else 
needed. Oilmeal is rather expensive. I 
have carrots and mangels, of which I feed 
about 15 to 20 lbs. at noon, and corn fod¬ 
der and Timothy hay for roughage. 
Michigan. j. l. m. 
If you will combine the ingredients 
mentioned in the following proportions 
they will provide a useful mixture for 
your family cow; 40 lbs. of yellow corn- 
meal, 30 lbs. of wheat bran. 15 lbs. of 
oilmeal. 15 lbs. of gluten feed or cotton¬ 
seed meal. 
Feed the cow from 7 to 10 lbs. of this 
mixture daily, and allow her all of the 
corn fodder and Timothy hay that she 
will clean up during the day. It would 
be advantageous if you could feed (he 
roots or carrots twice daily, morning and 
evening; and, if you have an abundance 
I of these roots, feed them generously. 
Make sure that she has access to sail,. 
Even though the concentrates that are 
high in protein are seemingly quite ex¬ 
pensive, you c-aunot afford to exclude 
them from your mixture. In reality, such 
feeds are the determining factors in eco¬ 
nomical milk production. 
Buckwheat and Corn for Cows 
Would you give rue a ration for milk 
cows? I have buckwheat aud corn on 
the ear, which I can have ground together 
or separate: can buy any other feed but 
beet pulp here. I have Western corn 
fodder, well cared, and mixed hay. also 
barley ; but would just as soon omit the 
barley. R- V. 
New York. 
While ground buckwheat is not espe¬ 
cially palatable for dairy cows, it is high 
in energy value and can be safely incor¬ 
porated in rations for average producing 
cows. A suggested mixture would he 150 
llis. ground buckwheat, 200 lbs. bran, 200 
lbs. corn-a nd-cob meal, 250 lbs. 45 per 
cent cottonseed meal, 200 lbs. oilmeal. 
This combination would be rather heavy. 
It could be safely fed in case you allow 
the animals all the hay and corn fodder 
that they will clean up with relish ; 150 
lbs. "f brewery or distillers’ grains would 
greatly improve the mixture. Barley has 
about the same feeding value as corn un¬ 
der the conditions described, and I have 
omitted it from the combination, assum¬ 
ing that you would prefer to use it for 
other purposes. 
Calves Gnaw Boards 
Will you tell me what to feed two 
registered Jersey calves six months old 
that stand and chew aii day on boards? 
They will gnaw through an inch board 
in a few days. When I bought them, two 
months ago, they were run down in flesh. 
I feed them in ilk with calf compound, a 
small amount of bonemeal, salt, and then 
us a dry feed corn, oats aud hominy, also 
clover hay. They seem to like corn fodder 
better than hay. They look and feel much 
better than when I bought them, but still 
SOU"’- R. A. s. 
New York. 
Provide your calves with some leafy 
roughage, such as Alfalfa or clover hay, 
and their gnawing habits will cease. Their 
system craves the mineral constituents 
that these two products' contribute, and 
the chances are that this procedure will 
solve your problem. A grain ration con¬ 
sisting of three parts of cornmeal. three 
parts of ground oats, two parts of wheat 
bran, one part of wheat middlings and 
one. part of oilmeal will provide a useful 
grain ration for calves of this age. Keep 
salt before them nl all times, and if this 
is mixed with honemeal. as you have sug¬ 
gested. it will be Improved, Make sure 
that the calves are not lousy. If so. go 
over their bodies thoroughly with raw 
linseed oil diluted with 10 per cent of 
gasoline. Keep them well bedded with 
oat ,-traw and corn fodder. Sprinkle a 
little sulphur in the feed in case there is 
any evidence of rash or the skin appears 
to be irritated. 
Wintering Idle Horses 
Will you give me a ration for winter¬ 
ing idle work horses? I have the follow¬ 
ing on hand: Sweet clover hay com 
fodder and cob corn. What additional 
foods must I get. and what amounts of 
each to feed? ,r. t„ o. 
Pennsylvania. 
If you have Sweet clover hay. corn 
fodder and com on the cob you will have 
a satisfactory ration for idle horses. 
Allow one feeding of clover hay per day. 
and give the horses corn fodder once a day. 
and feed just enough corn to keep the ani¬ 
mals in good condition. A 1.000-lb. horse 
would not require more than 1 lb of 
grain per day for each 100 lbs. of live 
weight, provided lie is not working. Of 
course the addition of wheat bran and 
whole oats would enable yon to feed less 
grnim It might be advantageous to use 
a grain mixture consisting of equal parts 
of corn, bran and outs. Two feedings of 
grain per day is quite sufficient The 
corn can lie fed in the morning and the 
oats and bran nt night. In order to make 
sum that the animals are not fostering 
internal parasites T should feed a salty 
bran mash once n week. 
Feeding Oat Straw 
I am short of cornstalks. How can I 
feed oat straw? Cows do not eyl plain 
oat straw. Last year I chopped rye 
straw and gave it to them with molasses, 
but cannot chop oat straw. A. R. 
New York. 
Oat straw is much more palatable than 
rye straw, although neither of these 
products is suitable for feeding dairy 
cows. They provide bulk, and that is 
about all. 'Die only means of increasing 
the palarnbility of straw would be to 
sprinkle it with molasses water. Ordi¬ 
narily. if the cow is fed a grain ration 
that is well bulanced. she will pick over 
•>at straw and eat enough of it to balance 
her daily ration mechanically, l do not 
believe, however, that any dairyman can 
get a new dollar for an old one by feed¬ 
ing either oat or rye straw to dairy cows 
as an exclusive roughage. Alfalfa or 
clover hay are essential to satisfy the 
requirement s of milk-making animals. 
You do red state what grain ration you 
are feeding, hut 1 presume it is largely 
corn mid nuts. Mixtures of this sort are 
unsatisfactory. Coarse grains of this 
character should be mixed with protein- 
carrying feed, such as oilmeal or cotton¬ 
seed nival, and properly supplemented 
with choice roughages that will contri¬ 
bute some nourishment. Even a cow’s 
time is too precious to make her fool her 
life away on oat straw nr rye straw. 
Mother: “Well, dear, did yon win the 
spelling match?" Gladys: “No. mam¬ 
ma. I put ton many z’s in scissors."— 
Credit Lost. 
