1h* RURAL NEW.YORKER 
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Whatever Rou^ha^e "You Grow 
there’s a TI-OGA Dairy Feed 
to forma Balanced Ration with it. 
Crop rotation and different kinds of soil make it necessary to grow different kinds of roughage. 
Roughage varies in nutritive value and to properly balance it with the grain ration so that cows 
will always have the right amount and proportion of nutrients, is the most difficult problem in 
dairying. To accomplish it economically is the work of an expert and he must have access to 
all available supplies of feed. 
TI-O-GA 
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SERVICE 
accomplishes this for the feeder by employing the best feed expert obtainable and by drawing sup¬ 
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Red Brand 
TI-O-GA Dairy Feed 
to be fed with low protein suc¬ 
culent roughage: Silage, Pas¬ 
turage, Green Fodder, etc. 
White Brand 
TI-O-GA Dairy Feed 
to be fed with medium protein 
dry roughage: Timothy Hay, 
Mixed Hay, Corn Fodder, etc. 
Blue Brand 
TI-O-GA Dairy Feed 
to be fed with high protein 
dry roughage: Clover Hay, 
Alfalfa, etc. 
In each case the cow gets the same amount of nutrition in the same nutritive ratio and you get 
more money from your roughage. If your dealer does not have the kind cf TI-O-GA Dairy Feed 
to balance your roughage, 
advise us and we will ar¬ 
range for some nearby 
dealer to supply you. 
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Feed Service and explana¬ 
tion of how the three feeds 
give the safne results, sent 
free on request. 
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Use the TI-O-GA Dairy Feed 
which forms a balanced ration 
with your own roughage. 
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furnished through: 
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Feed. 
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TI-O-GA Fattening Hog Fee'* 
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TI-O-GA Growing Grains 
TI-O-GA Laying Food. 
TI-O-GA Poultry Grains. 
TI-O-GA Calf Food. 
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NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J. 
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to be found in any land anywhere, are farms which may be bought at 
very reasonable prices. Owners are retiring, independent—in many 
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A Wonderland of Opportunity for the Pioneer. 
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Every branch of agriculture, may be followed in these Provinces; 
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FOR YOUR SPARE TIME THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Dept. “M,"333 West30th Street, N. Y. 
November 6 . 1020 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding Calves 
I have two calves about four months 
old and wish to know the proper feed 
ration to raise them to mature cows. One 
is a Jersey and the other a grade G llPrn 
sey. j. 0 
New York. 
A useful grain ration for calves four 
months old would be 25 lbs. of wheat 
middlings, 25 lbs. of hominy meal, 25 ]| )s 
of ground oats. 15 11*;. of wheat bran. 15 
lbs. of oilmeal. If you have some skim- 
milk they should not be fed more than 
six or eight quarts per day. There is 
nothing quite so useful in growing dairy 
calves as skim-milk, supplemented with a 
varied grain ration and some legume hay. 
The calves will take kindly to this grain 
ration, provided it is kept before them in 
clean, •unitary troughs, and they might 
be given quite as much as they would 
clean up with relish twice daily. Keep 
before them at all times clover or Alfalfa 
hay, for leafy plants of this sort aie l-ieh 
in ash and bring about growth and de¬ 
velopment that is both normal and satis¬ 
factory. The milk can be discontinued 
when the calves are six or seven months 
old, but its use will insure a normal de¬ 
velopment of frame so essential for useful 
dairy cows. Of course you are quite sure 
that the calves in question are the result 
of mating animals of known usefulness 
and generous production of dairy prod¬ 
ucts. 
Mixed Dairy Ration 
What amount of each of following feeds 
should be used to make*a dairy ration 
running about 25 per cent protein. 0 per 
cent fat, and not over 10 per cent fat? 
Wheat bran, wheat middlings cornmeal, 
old process oilmeal, gluten feed and cot¬ 
tonseed meal. a. w. g. 
Wysox. Pa. 
It is assumed that you have silage or 
some form of succulence, likewise that 
you have some clover or Alfalfa or mixed 
hay for roughage. Under such conditions 
a ration consisting of 400 lbs. cornmeal, 
200 lbs. wheat bran 200 lbs. oilmeal, 200 
lbs. cottonseed, would serve your purpose 
and provide an economical mixture. 
Problems in Dairy Feeding 
I have 20 fresh cows which I wish to 
winter as econonrcally as possible, at the 
same time keeping them in good flesh and 
milk flow. I nev'i iced but about half 
the amount of gr.u n that is recommended, 
but still my cows are always in good flesh 
and give a good account of themselves at 
the pail. I have enough immature silage 
to feed about 25 lbs. till grass, and a lot 
oi At Timothy hay, but a little coarse. I 
had intended to sell Timothy and buy Al¬ 
falfa or clover, but as there is none to be 
had in this section it would cost me from 
$10 to $20 per ton to make the exchange. 
Would I not better feed the Timothy and 
try to balance it with oilmeal or buck¬ 
wheat brau ? I have a large quantity of 
oats and barley mixed (barley about one- 
third) which I wish to use as a base. I 
would prefer to use cottonseed, oilmeal or 
buckwheat bran to balance the ration. I 
do not think I can get hominy or gluten 
here. State the minimum amount I can 
feed to 000 and 1.000-lb. cows giving 
about 25 to 45 quarts 44£ 1° 5 P pr cen * 
milk. c. ir. w. 
Steuben Co., N. Y. 
It would scarcely pay you to pay $20 
per ton more on an exchange of Timothy 
for Alfalfa hay. The feeding of an addi¬ 
tional amount of oilmeal would make it. 
possible for you to utilize the Timothy 
hay fairly advantageously, yet we are 
agreed that Timothy hay does not provide 
a very satisfactory roughage for milk 
cows. However, where you have silage 
and plenty of oats and barley, as you have 
indicated, the Timothy hay will do. 
Buckwheat bran in itself is not com¬ 
parable with oilmeal. The former carries 
a great deal more fiber, and is uot classi¬ 
fied as a protein carrier. It does fairly 
well in adding bulk to a ration, and does 
carry considerable asli : but it would re¬ 
place wheat bran rather Ilian oilmeal. 
You will find that the following combina¬ 
tion will give you useful results, where 
you can feed as much as 25 11 im. of silage 
per day, and it is assumed that you are 
going to feed Timothy rather than clover 
and Alfalfa for roughage: 500 lbs. ground 
oats and barley, 200 lbs. buckwheat bran. 
.400 lbs. cottonseed meal. 200 lbs. oilmeal 
or gluten. 100 lbs. wheat bran. In case 
you desire to feed clover or Alfalfa bay 
rather than Timothy, reduce the amount 
of cottonseed meal to 150 lbs. 
Dairy Ration 
Would you give me a balanced ration 
for my dairy of 40 cows? I have 4. < 
tons of silage, 20 tons of mixed feed. 40 
tons of wheat bran, clover hay, and will 
have corn and cob meal, ground oats and 
dry corn fodder. How much will <‘0\'s 
gain from S lbs. of milk per milking, "■ 
