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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
March 4, 1022 
Use the Tl-O-GA Dairy Feed 
which forms a balanced ration 
with your own roughage. 
Tl-O-GA 
Fancy Recleaned Seed Oats 
. Treated for Smut 
Feeding Holstein Herd 
I am milking 14 Holstein cows this 
Winter; have plouty of silage and Timo¬ 
thy and clover mixed. 1 am feeding a 
mixture of 600 lbs. corn meal, 100 lbs. 
ground oats, 200 lbs, bran, 600 lbs. glu¬ 
ten, 100 lbs. cottonseed meal, 200 lbs. 
oilmeal, 20 lb*, salt. 1 feed 1 lb. for each 
314 lb*, milk per day, with one bushel 
silage twice a day per cow. with 20 lbs. 
of wet beef, pulp each per day. A. N. M. 
New York. 
I should replace 100 lbs. of the gluten 
feed with 150 lbs. of brewers' grains, and 
unless the corn was of the yellow variety 
I should add 100 lbs. of corn germ meal. 
The ration that you are now using is an 
excellent one and ought to produce splen¬ 
did results. You have failed to indicate 
the form of roughage you are using, but 
I am hopeful that you are using clover 
or Alfalfa hay, and that you are allowing 
the animals one generous feeding of this 
roughage. Allow the cows all of the 
silage that they will clean up twice daily 
and feed the cows in proportion to their 
daily production. 
Ration with Silage and Alfalfa 
Would you give me a ration for dairy 
cows? I have good corn silage and first 
cutting Alfalfa hay as roughage. The 
hay is free from weeds and is bright and 
is about 10 per cent Alfalfa, I should 
judge. I intend feeding silage morning 
and night and hay at noon. Could yon 
include a fair percentage of corn and oats 
in this ration? Why is corn-and-cob meal 
not a good feed where Alfalfa hay is fed 
as roughage? j. m. c. 
New York. 
Corncobs do not contribute any digest¬ 
ible nutrients to dairy cows, and for this 
reason it is much better to replace ihe 
corncobs w T ith Alfalfa bay or wheat bran. 
The only condition that would warrant 
the use of corn-and-cob meal would be in 
instances where the ration lacked hulk 
and the corncobs were relied upon to con¬ 
tribute this factor. Allow your cows all 
of the corn silage that they will cat 
morning and evening and let them have 
all of the Alfalfa hay that they will clean 
up during the middle of the day. 
If it is your desire to use a straight 
shovel mixture, the following will serve 
your purpose: 300 lbs. of corn meal, 200 
lbs. of ground oats, 200 lbs. of bran, 200 
lbs. of gluten. 200 lbs. of oilmeal. Add 
two per cent of salt to this combination 
and feed 1 lb. of grain for each 3*4 lbs. 
of milk produced per day per cow. 
Forage for Swine 
I have 1*4 acres of land on which I 
have raised oats and peas for three years 
for my hogs. This year I wish to put it 
into a forage crop for sows with litters. 
What would you recommend? Would 
Essex rape and Hubara clover be good? 
If so. how much of each kind of seed 
should I sow to the acre? f. j. k. 
New York. 
A combination of 7 Ihs. of Sweet clover 
and 3 lbs. of Dwarf Essex rape should 
be seeded on a half acre of land that you 
propose to use to produce forage for your 
brood sows. Nothing would be gained by 
using Hnbam clover in preference to 
.Sweet clover, for the seed is not only 
more expensive, hut it is not so well 
suited for forage purposes as white¬ 
blooming Sweet clover. You would he 
wise to add a peck of oats to this com¬ 
bination. The oats will grow up and head 
out and reseed themselves, and thus pro¬ 
vide a splendid volunteer crop for your 
Fall feeding. 
Dwarf Essex rape cannot be excelled 
as a forage crop for swine. It yields a 
generous amount of forage per acre when 
it is drilled in rows 24 in. apart. White 
pigs, however, cannot be safely pastured 
on rape without danger of blistering their 
skin. Especially is this true if the ani¬ 
mals are turned into the field when the 
plants are covered with dew or wet fol¬ 
lowing rain. The plants should be 7 or 
S in. high before the area is pastured. 
Feeding Brood Sows 
I have two brood sows which are due 
to farrow late in the Spring. I would 
like to have you give me a cheap ration 
for them. I have clover hay and can get 
other feeds. W. p. C. 
Connecticut. 
The two products for swine feeding 
that can be obtained at the least, cost 
under present market conditions are corn- 
meal and ground oats. A ration consist¬ 
ing of seven parts of cornmeal. four parts 
of grouud oats and one part of digester 
tankage would he well suited for use in 
feeding the brood sows. Allow them all 
of the clover hay that they will consume 
with relish and feed them enough of this 
grain ration to provide a gain of 1 lb. a 
day throughout their gestation period. 
This can be fed in the form of a thick 
mash approaching the consistency of but¬ 
termilk. Allow the brood sows all of the 
fresh water that they will drink, and 
make sure that they are regularly exer¬ 
cised. By changing the feeding quarters 
exercise can be prompted. This is essen¬ 
tial for many reasons. 
Ration Without Silage or Alfalfa 
I have been looking over the dairy ra¬ 
tions recommended for some time, but do 
not know what to feed, as most of the 
rations suggested are to be fed with Al¬ 
falfa or clover hay and silage. I have no 
silo; neither have 1 Alfalfa nor clover 
hay. I have just common hay, some 
meadow and some upland. I have been 
'feeding a mixture composed of 500 lbs. 
cornmeal at $30 per ton*. 300 lbs. ship 
feed at $2N; 300 lbs. cottonseed, 36 per 
cent, at $46; 200 oilmeal at $46; 200 
lbs, beet pulp at $29; 200 lbs. ground 
oats at. $34, and 300 lbs. of an Alfalfa- 
molasses mixture put up for horse feed, at 
$35. This mixture was without gluten 
feed, as they had none, but. they have it 
now at $46, 1 cau get Alfalfa meal at 
$50 per ton. What is a ration for laying 
liens and pullets when the above feeds are 
obtainable? Et. J. N. 
New York. 
1. In many cases the quality and kind 
of roughage fed determine the success or 
failure of the dairy fanner. While it is 
possible to feed cows on mixed hay, or 
even Timothy hay, it is clear that prob¬ 
lems of a serious character are involved 
when such roughage is fed. Recently in¬ 
vestigators have pointed out the impor¬ 
tance of supplying an abuudance of min¬ 
eral matter, and Timothy hay is very de¬ 
ficient in this quality. Clover and Al¬ 
falfa hay, if fed constantly and in gen¬ 
erous quantities, will correct any possible 
mineral deficiency in average rations fed 
to milking cows. 
Under the conditions that you have 
described, where neither legume hay nor 
silage is available. I would suggest a 
ration consisting of 300 lbs. cornmeal, 
200 lbs. cottonseed meal, 200 lbs. oilmeal, 
200 lbs. ground oats. 300 lbs. bran, 150 
lbs. gluten. 
I would not use any of the Alfalfa-mo¬ 
lasses horse feed mixture that is available 
at $35 a ton. for it would be ill-suited to 
your wants. Neither would I purchase 
Alfalfa hay at $50 a ton. The addition 
of 100 lbs. of oilmeal should bo made 
when the ration is fed in conjunction with 
Timothy hay. 
Beet pulp should be relied upon to pro¬ 
vide the succulence, and should not be 
added to the regular grain ration. It is 
my experience that beet pulp is an ex¬ 
pensive source of carbohydrate, especially 
if fed dry. But if it is moistened for 12 
hours previous to being fed. it will pro¬ 
vide succulence* and at the same time 
yield minerals that will be available and 
necessary. I have substituted wheat bran 
'for >the ship feed, for usually this product 
is indefinite in analysis, and not suited 
for use with dairy cows. 
2. A suitable mash for laying hens 
would result from combining equal parts 
of cornmeal, wheat bran, ground oats, oil¬ 
meal, tankage or meat scrap, and white 
middlings. This is to be fed in a hopper, 
and to be supplemented by a scratch feed 
consisting of equal parts of cracked corn, 
whole oats, and whole wheat. It is neces¬ 
sary for poultry to have some protein 
from animal sources, and meat scrap or 
tankage are clearly the most economical 
sources of this necessary element. 
On one occasion a congressman at 
Washington began his speech : “As Daniel 
Webster says in his great dictionary—” 
and was just getting into his oratorical 
Stride when a colleague pulled his coat 
tail and saul. iu a loud whisper; “It 
was Noah who wrote the dictionary." 
“Noah!" exclaimed the orator, indignant 
at the interruption. “Nothing of the 
kind! Noah built the ark!”—New York 
Globe. 
The same careful service is 
furnished through: 
EGATINE 
the feed that makes hens lay 
TI-O-GA Calf Food 
the food that 
makes calves grow 
Feed Goes to Milk? 
Some is used to produce energy; some to repair wasted 
tissues and some to promote new life and growth. 
After these needs are supplied the remainder is converted 
into milk if the feed contains the required elements 
in right proportion. 
The dairy ration should consist of roughage grown 
on the farm, and mixed feed that will furnish the re¬ 
quired nutrients which are not contained in the 
roughage fed. 
As much roughage should be fed as the cows can eat 
without furnishing more dry matter than their digestive 
systems can readily utilize. 
The mixed feed should contain all the elements nec¬ 
essary for maintenance and milk production which 
are lacking in the roughage. 
But any kind of feed or mixture of feeds will not 
answer; to get the best results the feed must be a mixture 
of concentrates proportioned to furnish the food elements 
that will combine with those contained in the roughage 
without waste. 
Provides a feed for properly combining with each kind 
of roughage. Each combination insures correct feeding, 
resulting in more milk at the lowest cost. 
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 hay, 
etc. 
Send for free booklet which contains classification 
of roughages and specifies the correct quantities of feeds 
to constitute the daily ration. 
Tioga Mill & Elevator Co. 
Waverly, N. Y. 
How Much of the 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
TI O GA 
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