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Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 7. 1020 
"Dairy Maid Butter Girl Second” 
Record: 104 lbs. milk in One day; 30 lbs. butter in seven days. 
Owned by Jenningshurst Stock Farm, Towanda, Pa. 
Fed on TI-O-GA Dairy Feed .f 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Corn and Cob Meal 
Is corn ground with the cob fit food 
for sheep, horses, cows and hogs? I am 
particularly anxious to know if it is good 
for ewes about to lamb, and how much 
and how often should it be fed, and how 
long before lambing. X. Y. z. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Corn and cob meal is very well suited 
for use in feeding dairy cows or fattening 
steers, but it is ill adapted for ewes, 
horses or hogs. Horses and swine par¬ 
ticularly require concentrated feed, and 
there is nothing to be gained by introduc¬ 
ing a mass of bulk, such as corncobs, that 
do not contain any digestible materials. 
It is true that concentrates intended for 
dairy cows usually are combined from 
materials lacking somewhat in bulk, and 
for this reason it has been expedient to 
utilize the corn-and-cob meal. It is not 
claimed that the corncobs contribute any 
feeding value, for if an animal gained 
anything from corncobs it would eat them 
when given an opportunity ; but observa¬ 
tion points out that sheep, horses and 
hogs will not eat a corncob unless com¬ 
pelled to. 
It would be possible to feed some corn- 
and-cob meal to your breeding ewes, yet 
I should prefer a ration consisting of 
equal parts of cracked or shelled corn, 
crushed barley, ground oats and wheat 
bran, to which 5 or 10 per cent of oil- 
meal was added. If I fed the corn-and- 
cob meal to the sheep I should want it 
to be supplemented with at least 30 per 
cent of wheat bran and 20 per cent of 
ground oats. Breeding ewes weighing less 
than 150 lbs. each should be fed from a 
half to three-quarters of a pound of grain 
middlings. 2. Would it be profitable to 
feed an ordinary cow grain in addition to 
cornstalks twice a day and clover hay at 
noon? Cow is just fresh. L. A. M. 
New York. 
1. For feeding six-weeks-old pigs in¬ 
tended for market I would use 100 lbs. 
of shelled corn. 200 lbs. of red dog flour, 
200 lbs. of ground oats and 25 lbs. of 
digester tankage. I would feed 5 lbs. of 
skim-milk three times a day, giving them 
all they would clean up with relish, and 
you will find the amount will approxi¬ 
mate 5 lbs. of the dry equivalent for each 
100 lbs. of live weight. As the pigs grow 
older the amount of middlings can be de¬ 
creased by one-half and the amount of 
corn doubled. The oats should remain 
constant, and the tankage vary from five 
to eight per cent, based upon the amount 
of corn fed. 
2. It would be to your advantage to 
feed your fresh cow some grain in addi¬ 
tion to cornstalks and clover hay. In 
fact, you can never obtain a maximum 
flow of milk by limiting your feed to 
Ruch bulky materials. I would feed her 
1 lb. of the following mixture per day 
for each 3 or 4 lbs. of milk produced per 
day: 100 lbs. beet pulp. 100 lbs. corn- 
meal, 100 lbs. ground oats. 100 lbs. wheat 
bran, 100 lbs. oilmeal Feed the grain in 
two equal amounts morning and evening, 
giving the cow in addition all of the hay 
that she will eat morning and evening, 
and supplying the cornstalks in the mid¬ 
dle of the day. 
Value of Manure 
As the brewing of beer is prohibited 
and wet grains are done away with for 
What Is the Cow Worth? 
This depends on what she has done and what she IS—for 
these determine what she is still capable of producing. 
With what she produces during the pre sent milking 
period, should be considered her capacity to produce a strong, 
healthy calf and an equally profitable milk yield during the 
next milk producing period. Of what use are a few dollars 
profit from milk production if the value of the cow is impaired 
to a greater extent? 
TI-O-GA Feed Service fully provides for maintaining the physical 
condition and producing capacity of cows by preparing feed mixtures 
which will maintain at all times perfect balanced rations and utilize 
the home grown roughages which they conserve, and with which they 
are intended to be used. 
A Bunch of Holsteins on a Delaware County, 1 V. Y., Farm 
Red Band 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 TI-O-GA Dairy Feed to be fed with high protein dry 
roughage. 
per day, and should be given a generous 
amount of Alfalfa or clover hay. They 
would pick over corn fodder, and will not 
do themselves injury if given all of this 
roughage that they will clean up without 
waste. I would not under any circum¬ 
stances feed corn-and-cob meal to horses 
or swine, for they do not require the 
bulk, and certainly can find no nutriment 
in the cobs themselves. 
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. 
Tioga Mill & Elevator Co. 
Waverly, N. Y. 
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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 Feel. 
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). 
Ration for Freshening Heifers 
Will you give me a balanced grain ra¬ 
tion for heifers due to freshen in the 
Spring? I am feeding mixed hay; later 
on will feed straw and corn silage; quite 
a little corn in silage. F. L. K. 
New York. 
I take it that the heifers in question 
will be three years old when they freshen 
with their first calves and that they are 
well grown and developed. This condition 
is essential if it is desired to produce 
mature milch cows that will be economical 
producers of milk. You will find that the 
heifers will consume about 25 lbs. of 
silage per day, and that they will require 
from 6 to 8 lbs. of hay in addition to the 
silage. If you have some corn or hominy 
meal, or produce some oats and buck¬ 
wheat. a very practical combination 
would result from feeding 5 or 6 lbs. per 
day of the following mixture: 40 lbs. 
of corn or hominy meal; 20 lbs. 
ground oats, 20 lbs. ground buckwheat. 20 
lbs. of oilmeal or gluten. This mixture 
will enable them to come through the 
Winter carrying a reasonable amount of 
flesh. You will find it to your advan¬ 
tage to have the heifers carry consider- 
able flesh at calving time It is particu¬ 
larly wearing on heifers coming fresh 
with their first calf if they approach this 
critical period thin in flesh. Give them 
all the straw they will clean up. and this 
will have a tendency to develop large bar¬ 
rels and increase their capacity for rough 
feeds. 
Various Feeding Questions 
1. What is the best grain mixture for 
six-weeks-old pigs in a dry lot? I have 
skim-milk and corn on the cob. I am 
now feeding milk, ground oats and white 
cow feed, the dairymen in this section 
are using all sorts of feeds. What is the 
potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen 
content of a ton of manure made from the 
following feeds? Alfalfa, molasses, bran, 
stale rye bread and dried beet pulp from 
the sugar mills of the West. I am figur¬ 
ing on a contract for 1.000 tons of cow 
manure to be delivered over a period of 
two years at .$1 per ton delivered. 
New York. w. E. 
Dr. Wheeler, in “Manures and Fer¬ 
tilizers,” submits the following analysis 
of cow manure, including both the solid 
and liquid portions: Nitrogen. .7 per 
cent; phosphoric acid. .25 per cent; 
potash, .55 per cent, lie states that the 
liquid portion contains soluble phos¬ 
phates, potash salts, aud the organic 
metabolic products of the animal. While 
it is true that the value of manure de¬ 
pends primarily upon the nature and 
amount of the concentrates fed the ani¬ 
mal, there is every reason to believe that 
manure voided as a result of feeding the 
Imaterials you mention would contain 
average amounts of nitrogen, phosphoric 
acid, and potash. If you can negotiate 
a contract for 1.000 tons of cow manure 
to be delievcrd at your premises at a 
cost of 81 a ton I would say without 
any hesitation that you have made a rare 
bargain, and that the deal ought to be 
closed at once. Unless there is a large 
percentage of bedding in the mixture it 
would he worth more than a dollar a 
ton. even though the animals were not 
supplied with any grain; but where Al¬ 
falfa. bran, dry beet pulp and other ma¬ 
terials are included I would say frankly 
that the manure would approach average 
analysis. 
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