‘i.r<r RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 3, 192C 
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Her Year’s Profit 
What counts most for the dairyman is the yearly 
profit per cow —this year and next. 
Profit through use of home grown feeds. 
Profit in feeds purchased at lowest cost per unit 
of nutrition. 
Profit in avoiding waste by the proper balance of 
nutrients, for maintenance and milk production. 
Profit in value of the cow. 
TI-O-GA Feed Service produces these profits by: 
Classifying the home grown roughages according to their 
nutritive values; preparing a feed to form a balanced ration 
with each class; taking advantage of market conditions in 
securing ingredients which will combine to furnish the 
required standards at lowest cost; providing feeding tables 
scientifically prepared, showing how to feed to maintain 
physical condition and insure the maximum milk produc¬ 
tion of which each cow is capable. 
The feeds are: 
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 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
The Tamworth Hog 
I want to know about the Tamworth 
hog. What are their principal qualities? 
Would it be well to cross them with the 
Chester White or Berkshire? Would 
such a cross make good hogs for fattening 
purposes? c.w. H. 
New York. 
The Tamworths are bacon type hogs 
and noted for their rustling qualities. 
They do not mature as young as Duroc 
Jersey. Chester White or Berkshire, 
neither are they so well suited to pen 
feeding as are the strictly lard type. 
They yield a carcass, however, that is 
particularly attractive, owing to being so 
evenly marbled. I would not recommend 
crossing the Tamworth ou Chester White 
or Berkshires. although it is admitted 
that the Tamworth sow makes a splendid 
mother, and that she will produce with¬ 
out doubt a larger litter than obtains 
with any other breed. If I did make a 
cross I would use a Duroc Jersey boar 
on the Tamworth sows. The cherry red 
color would prevail, and the mating of 
these would not be as abrupt as would 
obtain where the other breeds mentioned 
were used. , 
Fattening Young Pigs 
I read on page 1511 that pigs should 
weigh 225 lbs. when six months old. I 
have a bunch of two-months-old pigs and 
wish to fatten them. I feed them twice 
daily milk with middlings. I shall soon 
take" them away from the mother. At 
Ration for Holstein Dairy 
Would you balance me a ration for my 
registered Holstein dairy? Our cows 
weigh from 1,200 to 1.400 lbs., and are 
from four to six years old. The average 
of butterfat is 3.5. We have corn silage 
and mixed hay, also ground oats and 
ground barley. We can buy oilmeal at 
.$00 per ton ; cottonseed meal at $80; 
eorumeal at $80, and bran at $57 per ton. 
Our cows are now fresh and in good con¬ 
dition. They have been dry for two 
months and during this time were pas¬ 
tured. M. F. G. 
New l'ork. 
Feed your Holstein cows all of the 
silage that they will eat morning and 
evening, which would approximate 35 to 
45 lbs. per cow, per day. Feed the mixed 
hay once a day, letting them have all 
that they will < lean up with relish in 
about an hour’s time. Using the ground 
oats and the ground barley as a base for 
your concentrates, I would suggest the 
following combination: 300 lbs. ground 
oats; 800 lbs. ground barley; 300 lbs. 
gluten; 300 lbs. eorumeal; 100 lbs. bran; 
100 lbs. buckwheat middlings. If you 
cannot seen re the gluten meal I should 
prefer cottonseed meal at $80 to the lin¬ 
seed meal at $90 a ton. If you could se¬ 
cure some Alfalfa or clover hay in pref¬ 
erence to your Timothy you could reason¬ 
ably expect greater production. 
Fattening Pigs on Buckwheat 
I have eight shotes to fatten for this 
Winter's use. I can buy buckwheat mid- 
Farrowhuj House for Brood Sows 
medium protein dry roughage. 
Blue Brand TI-O-GA Dairy Feed to be fed with high 
protein dry roughage. 
Full feeding instructions and classification of roughage will be found 
with every bag of TI-O-GA Feed. Every bag is guaranteed satis¬ 
factory when fed as intended. 
noon I give a forkful of green corn fodder. 
()ld and young eat this ; no pasture. I 
have on hand plenty of mangel beets, car¬ 
rots, corn and oats, little potatoes, boiled 
or raw. I buy middlings, bran, tankage 
or anything you advise. How much and 
often should I feed slop? Corn and oats 
can be ground. Is ear corn all right or 
are these pigs too young for ear corn? 
Pennsylvania. c. b. 
Inquire of your dealer. Book on TI-O-GA Feed Service containing 
valuable information on feeding and conservation of home grown feeds 
sent free on request. 
The same careful service is fur¬ 
nished 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 Grain*. 
TI-O-GA Laying Food. 
TI-O-GA Poultry Grain*. 
TI-O-GA Calf Food. 
TI-O-GA Horse Feed. 
Colonel’s Ration (Full Feed for 
Horses). 
Tioga Mill & Elevator Co. 
Waverly, N. Y. 
It is important that a brood sow nurs¬ 
ing pigs be generously fed in order that 
the pigs may have a good start if it is 
intended to have them weigh 225 lbs. 
when six months old. I should prefer 
that Fall pigs have access to a self-feeder, 
containing ground oats, eorumeal. wheat 
middlings and digester tankage, for with 
such materials available they would 
weigh at least 70 lbs. when they were 
70 days old, and from that time forward 
they ought to gain from one pound to a 
pound and a half a day. If they arc 
only two months old it would be better 
to shell the corn to feed it ou the ear. 
Youngsters of this age will scarcely use 
mangel beets or carrots to any advantage, 
as they do not need succulent feed, and 
there is very little actual digestible ma¬ 
terial iu these tubers. If the potatoes 
are fed they should be boiled with the 
skins ou. the water Carefully drained off, 
aud then pulped or mashed and mixed 
with the grain, which preferably should 
consist of equal parts of ground oats, 
wheat middlings, ground barley, to which 
has been added about 10 per cent of 
digester tankage. When the pigs weigh 
300 lbs. I would take all the middlings 
from the mixture and feed them exclusive¬ 
ly on ground corn, ground oats and di¬ 
gester tankage. The grain should be fed 
in the form of a thick slop about the 
consistency of buttermilk, and the pigs 
should be given some shelled or ear corn 
to pick over once a day. Keep them 
hungry, but make sure that they are 
supplied with practically all the feeds 
that they will clean up with relish, and 
you will realize the desired weight at 
six months of age. provided you are feed¬ 
ing a modern type of market pig. 
dlings for $2 per ewt. Would they give 
me proper gaiu if uqxed with a com¬ 
mercial stock feed which is $3.50 a hun¬ 
dred, and then cooked before being fed? 
I have soft corn to use with this, and am 
using digester tankage. j. w. 
New Jersey. 
Buckwheat middlings make au excellent 
feed for dairy cows, carrying as they do 
a generous amount of protein and carbo¬ 
hydrate as well. However, uuless they 
are ground very carefully they are not 
particularly suited for feeding pigs, as 
instances have been reported where irri¬ 
tation of the digestive tract has resulted 
from feediug them, owing perhaps to their 
coarseness. If fed in the proportion of 
400 lbs. of eorumeal, 200 lbs. of buck¬ 
wheat middlings, and 50 lbs. of digester 
tankage you would obtain excellent re¬ 
sults. I would not, however, cook feed 
for pigs under any circumstances. In 
fact, 100 lbs. of cornmeal after it is 
cooked actually loses about 15 per cent 
of its feeding value, since the protein and 
certain other of the vitamines are made 
undigestible. With skim-milk it is not 
necessary to feed digester tankage. The 
soft corn that you speak of could be used 
to advantage in feeding the pigs, but do 
not cook feed for your market pigs. 
House for Brood Sows 
The picture accompanying shows my 
farrowing house for sows. It is 60x22 
feet, with 20 pens. I find it very useful 
for the sows. All other stock is kept in 
colony houses. It may interest you to 
know that I have just sold and shall ship 
from Bostou six sows, 14 gilts and three 
boars to the Soledad Sugar Co. of Cuba. 
One of the boars took second prize at the 
Brockton Fair this Fall. I am making 
a number of other good sales—seven bred 
gilts going to Connecticut, trio to New 
York, trio to Maine. I have about 400 
head in my herd, all registered stock. 
Massachusetts. cat bock farm. 
