1862 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 20, 1919 
Jennxngshurst Rose Segis Korndyke 
Champion three year old of Pennsylvania 
Record: 38.65 lbs. Butter 7 days—106 lbs. Milk 1 day, 583 lbs. 7 days. 
Owned by Jenningshurst Stock Farm, Towanda, Pa. 
Fed on Tl-O-GA Dairy Feed. 
— • 
Made Fit Through 
TI-O-GA Feed Service 
Cows are intricate organisms, not machines. Correct 
feeding is imperative to develop and maintain maximum 
economical production. Either excess or lack of protein, 
carbohydrates or any other nutrients will result in weakened 
physical condition and waste of feed lost through impaired 
digestion.-^ - * " 
Only cows physically fit can be economical producers. 
It is a mistake to take two dollars from the value of the 
cow to put one dollar in the pail. 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Mixing a Ration 
I would like to know what to mix with 
corn on the ear and oats ground up. or 
whether it is better not to mix anything 
with it, for milch cows. Some people 
say to mix cottonseed meal with it and 
some people say it does not pay to buy 
cottonseed. Would you tell me how to 
mix it? I have plenty of corn but am 
buying the oats. I have no silage, but 
plenty of corn fodder. G. b. 
New York. 
If you would take six parts of corn, 
three parts of ground oats and mix with 
them three parts of gluten or oilmeal, or 
cottonseed meal, you would improve very 
materially your ration intended for milch 
cows. Corn and oats are both carbo¬ 
hydrate carriers, and Supply heat and 
energy. It is necessary, however, for 
cows producing milk to have access to 
some concentrate yielding protein in di¬ 
gestible form. At the present market 
prices gluten offers a unit of digestible 
protein more economically than any other 
one of the carriers, with the possible ex¬ 
ception of Alfalfa or clover hay. Y r ou 
will find it distinctly advantageous to 
supplement your home-grown feeds with 
this material and your cows will more 
than make up for the increased cost of 
the ration. The addition of buckwheat 
middlings to the ration suggested would 
reduce the cost of the mixture. 
Ration for Jerseys 
What would you consider the best grain 
ration for grade Jerseys and Guernseys, 
having plenty of shredded corn fodder 
and Alfalfa- hay? We have plenty of 
corn, oats and barley. Can buy gluteu. 
bran and oilmeal. IIow much would 
you feed ? j. N. D. 
New York. 
With an abundance of shredded corn 
fodder and Alfalfa hay, and plenty of 
ground oats and barley, I would suggest 
that, you use the following grain ration in 
feeding-Guernseys and Jerseys: 300 lbs. 
ground corn, 300 lbs. ground barley, 300 
lbs. ground oats. 300 lbs. gluten. 100 lbs. 
bran,- 50 lbs. oilmeal. Feed 1 lb. of. this 
mixture for each 4 lbs. of milk produced 
and, in addition, givg them all the Al¬ 
falfa and corn fodder that they will clean 
up with relish twice daily. If you could 
secure some beet pulp to supply succu¬ 
lence no doubt your production would be 
still further increased. 
hogliouse, but it offers suggestions for 
what they have designated as the com¬ 
munity hoghouse. 
The matter of breed selection is a 
matter for individual decision. You are 
reminded that the Yorkshire is in reality 
a bacon type of hog, and that they re- 
quire a longer growing period than pre¬ 
vails with typical representatives of the 
fat or lard type. They are not exten¬ 
sively produced in this section, largely 
because the available markets do not 
offer any more for nicely marbled bacon 
carcasses than they are willing to pay 
for carcasses of the lard type, and it is 
clearly evident that the cost of producing 
the bacon type of hog is greater and more 
complicated than obtains with the lard 
type. The Chester White breed is gaining 
in popularity very rapidly, largely be¬ 
cause it yields a white carcass that is 
particularly attractive on the hook. Se¬ 
lected representatives of this breed ma¬ 
ture at an early age, produce large litters, 
are good feeders, and regular breeders. 
The Hampshire, more commonly known 
as the “belted” hog, does not have an 
extensive following in the East, although 
representatives of this breed are gaining 
in popularity throughout the corn belt. 
Judging by the number of red hogs that 
are to be found at stockyard centers, as¬ 
sembled from sections where pork pro¬ 
duction plays an important part in feed¬ 
ing operations, it would seem that the 
Du roc Jersey is clearly the most popular 
type of feeder. They produce large lit¬ 
ters. are especially suited for foraging 
and. when confined in the feed lot. gain 
rapidly and economically. The big type 
of Duroc Jersey would be particularly 
well suited for the conditions you de¬ 
scribe. 
Twenty brood sows would provide ex¬ 
cellent beginning for your operations. If 
you are careful iu locating your build¬ 
ings, and are far-sighted enough to make 
the areas intended for forage crops rela¬ 
tively large, ainl provided you can produce 
corn, barley and oats in abundance, you 
ought- to succeed in' your swine feeding 
and breeding plans. Try to provide some 
clover or Alfalfa, in order to make sure 
that the animals are supplied generously 
with the necessary protein, ash, and min¬ 
eral constituents so essential for grow¬ 
ing animals. So far as the mineral mix¬ 
ture is concerned, it is well to keep be¬ 
fore the animals at all times a mixture 
consisting of equal parts of charcoal, salt, 
bone meal, sulphur, ground limestone and 
rock phosphate. 
TI-O-GA Feed Service keeps them fit and insures lowest cost of 
production through feeds prepared under expert supervision to com¬ 
bine with home grown roughages in forming balanced rations. 
Red Brand TI-O-GA Dairy Feed to be fed with ensilage, pasturage, 
green fodder or low protein roughage. 
White Brand TI-O-GA Dairy Feed to be fed with medium protein 
dry roughage. 
Blue Brand Tl-O-GA Dairy Feed to be fed with high protein dry 
roughage. 
Full feeding instructions and classification of roughages will be 
found with every bag of TI-O-GA Feed. Every bag is guaranteed 
satisfactory when fed as intended. 
Inquire of your dealer. Book on TI-O-GA Feed Service contain¬ 
ing valuable information on feeding and conservation of home-grown 
feeds sent free on request. 
The same careful service Is furnished 
in the preparation of: 
TI-O-GA Brood Sow and Pig Feed. 
TI-O-GA Growing SHoat Feed. 
TI-O-GA Fattening Hog Feed. 
TI-O-GA Chick Feed. 
TI-O-GA Growing Mash. 
TI-O-GA Growing Grains. 
TI-O-GA Laying Food. 
TI-O-GA Poultry Grains. 
TI-O-GA Calf Food. 
TI-O-GA Horse Feed. 
Colonel’s Ration (Full feed for 
Horses). 
Tioga Mill & Elevator Co, 
Waverly, N. Y. 
Feeding Dry Cows 
I have three cows, one will come iu in 
six weeks, the others later. They have 
corn fodder twice a day and straw at 
noon (oat and wheat straw) ; for grain, 
ground corn and oats. What proportions 
shall I mix and what other grains do I 
new! for a balanced ration? K. j. s. 
New York. 
Your dry cows, due to freshen in six 
weeks, should be fed six parts of corn and 
four parts of oats, to which you should 
add 20 per cent of either gluten or oil¬ 
meal. A cow weighing 1.000 or 1,200 
lbs. would receive 6 lbs. of ground corn, 
4 lbs. of ground oats, and 2 lbs. of oil¬ 
meal or gluten meal. Lot them have ac¬ 
cess to all the straw they will eat. and 
feed them a sufficient amount of grain 
to make sure that they are gaining in 
flesh and improving generally in their 
condition as evidenced by the appearance 
of their coat and the amount of flesh 
that they are putting on. 
Fattening Hogs 
As I am to take over a large, level, 
clay farm near the borders of Lake 
Champlain, in Essex County, N. Y„ in 
April next. I contemplate raising and fat¬ 
tening hogs on a fairly large scale. I 
can set aside a tract of laud of about 
130 acres for buildings, pasture, forage 
crops and raising of corn, barley and oats. 
I have read with great interest your 
answer on page 1519. Your recommenda¬ 
tions to turn the pigs into young rye, or 
wheat and afterwards into oats, rape and 
Sweet clover I thoroughly approve of. 
Soy beaus may not grow so far north, 
and I may add a clover field, and par¬ 
ticularly mangels or turnips, for Winter 
feeding. Where can I get descriptions or 
plans of modern sanitary hog barns? 
What breed of swine would you recom¬ 
mend in my case, having plenty of pas¬ 
ture. even 10 acres of woodland? The 
pigs should be able when young to travel 
for half a mile, but should also fatten 
early. They must be somewhat hardy 
and not extremely subject to disease. 
How would Chester White, Yorkshire* or 
Belted Hampshireianswer? Would I be 
able to keep 20 brood sows, or is it ad¬ 
visable to start with less? Do you recom¬ 
mend any mineral food outside of com¬ 
mon salt? F. E. 
New York. 
If you will communicate with the bul¬ 
letin department of the Iowa Experiment 
Station at Ames, Iowa, and ask them to 
send you their recent bulletin giving 
plans and specifications for the sunlit hog¬ 
house, you will be well rewarded for 
your trouble. This v bulletin not only 
gives details for the Type A individual 
Feeding Molasses 
I have a barrel of molasses and would 
like to know how I should feed it to 
cows, also how to feed it on silage. Is 
it good for horses or chickens also? 
New Jersey. j. s. 
Black strap molasses is a carbohydrate 
carrier and is useful in feeding live stock 
largely because of the free sugar it pro¬ 
vides. It can best be fed by diluting 1 lb. 
of the molasses with 5 lbs. of warm 
water, and sprinkling this over such 
roughage as corn fodder or mixed hay, 
or it can be mixed with the grain just 
previous to feeding. It can also be 
sprinkled over silage and will increase 
its feeding value very materially. By 
gradually accustoming the cows to this 
material and gradually increasing the 
amount each day it will be possible to 
feed as much as 4 or 5 lbs. of molasses 
per animal per day. So far as its value 
in feeding horses is concerned, it is an 
excellent conditioner and will make sleek 
the coat as no other feed will do. It is 
scarcely as economical, however, as some 
of the standard feeds, and I would not 
feed more than 2 lbs. per day to a work¬ 
horse weighing 1.200 lbs. 
Fattening the Family Pig 
We wish to know how to fatten one 
pig to best advantage. It is a Berkshire, 
confined in a small pen. It is fed swill 
from our house, and plenty of skim-milk. 
We have lots of soft corn and nubbins. 
Can we profitably feed it purchased feed? 
We would rather use a self-feeder. Pig 
weighs 140 lbs. now. a. t. it. 
Connecticut. 
I would not advise the purchase of any 
mixed or milled feed for fattening a pig 
if I had available an abundance of soft 
corn and plenty of skim-milk. In reality, 
these two materials supply all of the con¬ 
stituents necessary for animal growth 
and development, and with your animal 
weighing 140 lbs. you would be perfectly 
safe in feeding it all of the soft corn 
that it would clean up with relish, and. 
in addition. I would allow it 5 lbs. of 
skim-milk for 1 lb. of shelled corn, or its 
equivalent, that it consumed per day. It 
is rather difficult to construct a self- 
feeder that would supply each grain with¬ 
out waste; hence I would advise that you 
hand-feed this pig. using the grain and 
skim-milk exclusively. The addition of 
some Alfalfa hay to supply ash and min¬ 
eral matter would be advantageous. Give 
the pig a dry place to sleep, and make 
sure that he is given all the grain and 
skim-milk that he will clean up with 
relish twice daily. 
