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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
change from winter feeding to green pasturage 
produces an excessive laxative and stimulating effect 
on all of the secretory glands in the body of cows, 
resulting in increased milk production. 
Unless the pasturage is properly supplemented with 
other feed the increased milk production will draw 
excessively on the body tissues, resulting in loss of 
flesh, weakened vitality, often impaired digestion 
and sooner or later, decreased milk production. 
Only animals physically fit are capable of economical 
production. Cows in good condition are also worth 
more and will produce more valuable calves. 
TI-O-GA Feed Service maintains economical milk produc¬ 
tion throughout the entire season by providing a feed properly 
compounded to neutralize the excessive succulence and keep 
the cows in good flesh: 
Red Brand TI-O-GA Dairy Feed, to be fed with pasturage, 
green fodder, ensilage or low protein roughage. 
White Brand TI-O-GA Dairy Feed, to be fed with me¬ 
dium 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 satisfactory when 
fed as intended. 
Ask your dealer to supply you and ".vite lor book on TI-O-GA Feed 
Service containing valuable information on feeding and conservation of 
home grown feeds. 
A Three-cow Team 
The picture below shows a new way 
of handling cattle. It shows Frank 
Fyock, of Indiana County, Pa., bringing 
home his cows from pasture. Many of ns 
in other days have attempted this by 
driving the cows along the road. When 
the cows are good-natured or hungry or 
anxious to get home they go along fairly 
well, but when, like some human beings, 
various motives induce them to be con¬ 
trary, there is no telling where they will 
go before they finally land in the barn¬ 
yard. This plan shown by Mr. Fyock 
ought to work well after the cows are 
trained to it. They certainly look quiet 
enough in the picture, but we know from 
experience that you can never tell wlmt's 
going to happen when either cows or 
human beings meditate mischief, lie’s 
get them there, however, where they can’t 
get away, for cows, unlike human beings, 
can’t co-operate successfully. Tie three 
of them together and if they want to run 
there will be three different directions 
pointed out, one of which will interfere 
with the others. 
Balancing Dairy Ration 
Will you give a balanced ration for my 
dairy? I am feeding corn fodder, medium 
heavy with corn cut up. night and morn¬ 
ing. mixed hay, mostly Timothy, at noon. 
Cows mostly two mouths fresh. Also 
give balanced ration when I begin to 
Improving a Ration 
T have a herd of Guernsey dairy cows, 
to which I have been feeding several 
brands of dairy feed, hut none seems to 
bring satisfactory results. I would like 
to prepare a balanced ration myself. 
What would you advise to use, and how 
much of each? a. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
The dairy farmer who is compelled to 
buy all of his concentrates and does not 
have silage or some Alfalfa or clover hay 
produced on his own farm will not find it 
an easy matter to feed dairy cows eco¬ 
nomically with the present prices of feed 
and labor. In any event, home-mixed 
feeds would be more economical than the 
ready mixed rations. You have failed to 
supply any information that would en¬ 
able iis to determine a ration based upon 
the prevailing prices in your district; 
hence we must take it for granted that 
the materials mentioned below will sup¬ 
ply carbohydrates and proteids in the 
most economical form. I would use a 
grain ration compounded as follows: 800 
lbs. corn-and-cob meal. 800 lbs. ground 
oats, 800 lbs. gluten meal. 800 lbs. oil- 
meal. 200 lbs. buckwheat middlings, 100 
lbs. wheat bran. If the cows are carry¬ 
ing considerable flesh it might be appro¬ 
priate to reduce the amount of eornmeal 
or hominy meal and substitute an equal 
amount of dried beet pulp which has been 
moistened 12 hours previous to feeding 
with molasses water. You ought to be 
able to buy blackstrap molasses at a rea¬ 
sonable cost, and you cau feed 8 or 4 lbs. 
of the blackstrap molasses per cow per 
day. In addition to the concentrates, let 
them have all of the hay and corn fodder 
thev will clean up two or three times a 
dav. It would be well to feed the hay 
Bringing the Coivs Home from Bast me 
The same careful service is furnished 
in the preparation of: 
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TI-O-GA Growing Shoat Feed. 
TI-O-GA Fattening Hog Feed. 
TI-O-GA Chick Feed. 
TI-O-GA Growing Mach. 
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. 
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feed silage. Will feed one bu. per cow 
at noon and hay night and morning. 
New. York. i.j. K. 
It is the usval practice on dairy farms 
to feed silage twice daily, night and 
morning following milking, and to give 
the animals the roughage, either hay or 
com fodder, during the middle of the 
day. Your suggested practice of feeding 
hay night and morning and the silage 
at noon would not give you as satis¬ 
factory results as the other method. Usu¬ 
ally the silage is put into the manger and 
the grain is put on top of the silage, ami 
as a result it has been found that cows 
will eat more silage, and that it .vin I 3 
consumed with greater relish. M ’.:c silage 
being of such a bulky nature will ex¬ 
tend the rumen and thus stimulate di¬ 
gestion. If the cows are given as much 
hay as they will clean up during the 
middle of the day it is bwieved that di¬ 
gestion will be more c r piete than where 
they are given hay eic?-* v, fT Axui night and 
he silage during the miutue "!'* the day. 
You can scarcely expect to ret average 
results from feeding corn fodder, corn, 
and mixed hay. Such a ration would 
lack protein, variety, and the cows would 
not be in a position to produce even 
average amounts of milk. A more useful 
ration would result from mixing the fol¬ 
lowing grains in the proportions sug¬ 
gested : 400 lbs. eornmeal. 800 lbs. ground 
oats. 200 lbs cottonseed meal, 200 lbs 
oilmeal, 100 lbs. bran or buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings. Feed 1 lb. of this mixture for 
each SVj or 4 lbs. of milk produced and, 
in addition, give them all the silage that 
they will eat morning and evening, and 
as much corn fodder as they will clean 
up during the middle of the day. It is 
essential that cows be fed in proportion 
to their production of milk. Grain should 
not be denied even the cows that are dry 
or*■ those that are approaching their 
freshening time, as it is quite as essen¬ 
tial that dry cows be given grain as it 
is fo supply those giving milk with con¬ 
centrates. Of course more carbohydrates 
and less protein is required with dry 
cows, as they are putting on beef rather 
than producing milk. 
morning and evening, and the corn fodder 
or other roughage during the middle of 
the day. Make sure that they get a gen¬ 
erous amount oi roughage, for it is essen¬ 
tial where you do not have silage or any 
concentrates of a bulky nature. 
As to the amount of grain to feed, it 
would best be based upou the production 
of each cow. As safe a rule as cau be fol¬ 
lowed is to allow 1 lb. of grain tor each 
3% lbs. of inilk produced per day. A 
bealthv milking con- yielding milk 
high-testing quality would require a 
larger proportion of grain to milk pro¬ 
duced. while cows yielding smaller 
amounts would not require as much gram. 
G.’ain Ration for Milch Cows 
Will you give me a grain ration to 
feed to a herd of 10 cows (mixed breeds) 
that will be economical and give best re¬ 
sults? I have to buy all the gram. 
Roughage consists of all the good lum>th\ 
hay they will clean up. E. C. n. 
Pennsylvania. 
Timothy hay is universally condemned 
as a source of roughage for dairy cows, 
especially if it is the only coarse material 
available. Where silage* and some man 
gels are available. Timothy hay is more 
acceptable; but' in the absence, of any 
succulence or legume roughage, it is not 
easy to imagine economical production ot 
milk where the only borne product that 
you have is of this sort. Assuming that 
prices in your district parallel with those 
in other communities, you. will find that 
the following grain ration would be 
adapted to your conditions : 400 Ins. 
corn-and-cob meal. 300 lbs. ground oat>. 
200 lbs. wheat bran. 200 lbs. buckwheat 
middlings. 400 lbs. eottousc*d meal. -*0 
lbs. oilmeal or gluten meal, 1* eed 1 U>- 
of this mixture per day for each pound 
of butter fat produced in a week or 1 In¬ 
fer each 8 or 4 lbs. of milk, yielded 
cow per day. If it is possible b' 1 
fo secure some beet pulp or man 
da'ilj 
per 
you 
,VUll o ''*** 1 r -• 
sprouts, they can be moistened and will 
serve as a fairly good substitute for such 
succulence as silage or mangel beets. 
