Use the TIOGA Dairy Feed 
which forms a balanced ration 
with your own roughage. 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding Pigs and Sows 
I wish a good ration for three-months- 
old pigs. I just bought two Poland- 
China sows, and wish to keep them for 
breeding. E. b. 
New York. 
You will find that a mixture consisting 
of 50 lbs. cornmeal. 30 lbs. white mid¬ 
dlings, 10 lbs. ground oats, 10 lbs. diges¬ 
ter tankage will give you good results. 
For the brood sows l should feed a 
chop feed consisting of equal parts of 
corn and oats to which has been added 
10 per cent of tankage. Alfalfa or clover 
hay would make a valuable addition for 
use in feeding the brood sows. 
For the young pigs feed them all that 
they will clean up with relish three or 
four times a day and let them have ac¬ 
cessible at all times a mineral mixture 
consisting of equal parts of ground lime¬ 
stone and salt. This latter should not bo 
mixed with the feed, but rather kept be¬ 
fore the youngsters constantly in con¬ 
venient feeders or boxes. 
Moldy Silage 
I have a silo 14x32 ft. which was tilled 
with silage and I am troubled with the 
silage molding and becoming fermented. 
The silo is well built, salt was put in 
with the silage, the silage was well 
packed, and the corn was green. I have 
16 cows, and give them about a bushel 
mixtures for farm animals. Particularly 
in the case of poultry it is desired to force 
feed the birds, and there is little, if any, 
nutrition in corncobs. Cornmeal. hominy 
meal, or straight Cracked corn would he 
more satisfactory. You will notice in 
many instances the birds will refuse to 
eat the corncobs, thus showing that they 
do not value them from a standpoint of 
nutrition. Where highly concentrated 
feeds are used for dairy cows and it is 
desired to increase the hulk or volume 
of a given amount of feed, then corn and 
cob meal can he advantageously utilized. 
Then, too, where one has a mill on the 
farm which will grind the corn and cob 
meal it is scarcely worth while to shell 
the corn and grind tlie meal. One process 
of grinding the com with the cob is suffi¬ 
cient and much more convenient. The 
mixture that you have suggested ought 
to give von good results providing it is 
supplemented with a scratch feed consist¬ 
ing either of ground oats and buckwheat 
or ground oats and wheat. The mash 
should be fed in free choice hoppers, aud 
the scratch feed distributed over the dry 
litter. 
Conditioning Cows 
I have eight cows, and I have been 
feeding green corn, which they did not 
get fat on. How can I get them fatV I 
am milking only two of them. j. n\ 
New Jersey. 
It is next to impossible to fatten dairy 
cows through the use of any product as 
succulent and washy as green corn. We 
are assuming that you were cutting the 
Grand Champion Brown Swiss Sire at National Dairy Show. Owned by /.. S. 
Marshall if Son of Michigan 
of silage a day. so that there is about 2 
in. of silage taken out each day for feed¬ 
ing. but in addition I have to take out 
about the same amount of fermented 
silage before I can use any for feeding. 
Trenton. N. J. a.M. S. 
The indications from your inquiry are 
that your ensiled corn was too dry when 
it was ensiled. If this was the case, the 
material would not properly ferment and 
would produce a characteristic mold, 
such as you describe. If the corn was 
too mature, or in case it was dried out 
too much before it was put into the silo, 
then some arrangement should he pro 
vided ro run some water in the fan and 
blow this into the silo with the silage. 
There is nothing that can be done at this 
time that will save the silage. Person¬ 
ally. I doubt very much the wisdom of 
adding salt to silage, for it often detracts 
from its pal stability and it cannot he 
evenly distributed. A better plan is to 
mix the salt with the grain ration, or 
allow the cows to have access to a salt 
box in their exercising yard. If it would 
he possible for you to feed an increased 
amount of silage each day the chances are 
that your trouble would not be experi¬ 
enced^ Furthermore, if the cows will eat 
the moldy silage it will not do them any 
harm, and you might increase the daily 
allowance ami reduce the roughage fed 
proportionately. Holstein cows of good 
size will consume as much as 15 or 50 
Ihs. of silage per day. Even though this 
might consume your silage earlier than 
desired, it wouhi be better than to cart 
it out as useless waste. By mixing the 
grain with the silage after it is placed 
in the manger it is possible to increase 
the daily consumption of silage. 
Corn on Cob Meal for Poultry 
What is your opinion of using ground 
corn on the cob in a dry mash for laying 
pullets, about as follows: 200 lbs. ground 
corn on cob. 100 lbs. meat scrap. 100 lbs. 
bran. 100 lbs. ground oats. 100 lbs. mid¬ 
dlings. B- H- 
There is absolutely nothing to be 
gained by including corncobs in feeding 
corn—stalk and all—and feeding this to 
cows that bad the daily run of a good 
pasture. The addition of some dry feed 
is recommended. A mixture consisting 
of equal parts of cornmeal. ground oats, 
wheat bran and linseed meal would serve 
your purpose and enable you to condi¬ 
tion the cows as desired. The green corn 
is about as valuable as silage and is too 
washy to rely upon exclusively as a sup¬ 
plementary feed. This ration is intended 
for dry cows that are to freshen later 
on. and that are to he milked during The 
Winter. If it is desired to fatten these 
cows for the butcher, it is not necessary 
to feed any bran or linseed meal, and the 
dry feed should consist of equal parts of 
corn and oats. For the COWS in milk I 
should add some gluten feed and would 
endeavor to bring tile protein up to about 
20 per cent. If it is intended to fatten 
these cows their grain ration should be 
gradually increased until they are sub¬ 
stantially on full feed; that is, are given 
all the grain that they will clean up with 
relish twice daily. 
As the result of recent voyages of ex¬ 
ploration in the North. Canada now 
claims the most northerly postoffice in 
the world—Craig Harbor, < u Ellesmere 
Island, only S50 miles from tin 1 Pole. 
Another new postoffice in the northland is 
at I'onds Inlet, on Baffin Island. Both 
were established by the Canadian ex¬ 
plorer. Captain Bernier, during tile latest 
tour of his schooner, the Arctic. An in¬ 
spector and six men of the Boyal Can i- 
dian mounted police are at Craig Harbor, 
where they have established a post, while 
four of the police represent law and order 
at Ponds Inlet. 
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December 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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It isn’t easy to be a “pioneer” as the Dairymen’s League 
News calls us in its endorsement. 
In eight years of successfully adhering to scientific 
feeding standards we have lost orders rather than meet 
frequent demands for lower grade feeds. 
Our interest is in your success as a dairyman. The feeds 
are made to form a balanced ration with your own rough- 
age and produce milk at lowest cost while keeping your 
cows in best condition. 
This copy of clip¬ 
ping is part of the 
endorsement of 
TI-O-GA Feed Ser¬ 
vice Principles as 
it appeared in the 
Dairymen’s League 
News, July 21, 1922 
TI-O-GA Feed 
Principles Endorsed 
The three brands of TI-O-GA Dairy Feeds vary not 
only in amount of protein, but each supplements in all 
digestible nutrients which the roughage lack, whether 
it is in Protein or Heat and Energy food. 
Red Brand TI-O-GA Dairy Feed 
should be fed with low protein succulent rough- 
age: Silage, Pasturage, Green Fodder, etc. 
White Brand TI-O-GA Dairy Feed 
should be fed with medium protein dry roughage: 
Timothy Hay, Mixed Hay, Corn Fodder, etc. 
Blue Brand TI-O-GA Dairy Feed 
should be fed with high protein dry roughage: 
Clover Hay, Alfalfa Hay, etc. 
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To add any other feed will unbalance the ration; the 
results will not be as good and the cost of production will 
be increased. This is true whether the addition is a cheap 
feed or high concentrate. 
The uniform nutritive standard of TI-O-GA Dairy Feeds 
is always maintained. The results obtained have proven 
the standard correct, and nothing should be added to 
TI-O-GA Dairy Feed. 
Tioga Mill & Elevator Co., Waverly, N. Y. 
The same careful service 
is furnished with: 
TI-O-GA CALF FOOD for rai#- 
ins calves. 
EGATINE for laying hens. 
CHICATINE for growing chicks. 
TI-O-GA FANCY RECLEANED 
SEED OATS treated for smut. 
FISH MEAL 
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FEEDING 
Insures Better Health 
to poultry, hogs and stock in wintermoiiths 
when more care in feeding is necessary. 
STRUVKN'S FISB MEAL is made from fresh, 
whole fish, finely ground, and rhh in 
needed proteins and minerals. Tree feeding 
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“ Dandelion Butter Color ” Gives That 
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Before churning add one-half teaspoon¬ 
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Qf your churn comes butter of Golden 
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