1900 
‘P* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
T! 
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FEED SERVICE 
Common sense 
in feeding 
TI-O-GA Feed Service makes common-sense application 
of the very best scientific feeding principles. 
Science has determined the requirements of cows for 
maintenance and milk production, and the daily ration 
must contain the required amount of Digestible Protein 
and Digestible Heat and Energy Food. 
The ration consists of roughage and concentrates, and 
a Balanced Ration requires the proportioning of nutrients 
in both, to furnish the exact requirement in Protein and 
Heat and Energy Food. The proper proportioning is im¬ 
perative, for Heat and Energy Food is just as important 
as Protein; an excess of either is waste and results in loss; 
a deficiency causes decreased production. 
Roughage grown on the farm varies in nutritive con¬ 
tent and the feeding problem is to supplement the rough- 
age with concentrates, so proportioned as to meet the 
requirement of the cow. This is accomplished by 
TI-O-GA 
JL FEED SERVICE 
in classifying the roughage according to nutritive content 
into three classes and preparing a feed to use with each 
class which will in every case furnish the cow with the 
same nourishment properly proportioned. 
Red Brand TI"0‘GA Dairy Feed 
to be fed with low protein succulent roughage: Silage, Pasturage, 
Green Fodder, etc. 
White Brand TI“0"GA Dairy Feed 
to be fed with medium protein dry roughage: Timothy Hay, Mixed 
Hay, Corn Fodder, etc. 
Blue Brand TI’0 _ GA Dairy Feed 
to be fed with high protein dry roughage: Clover Hay, Alfalfa, etc. 
In each case, you buy only the nutritive elements needed to 
furnish what is lacking in that which is home grown, and 
when fed as intended, each combination furnishes the 
cow with the same amount of nutrition. 
On request we will furnish without charge, booklet on 
TI-O-GA Feed Service and fuller explanation of how 
the three feeds give the same results. If you want to take 
advantage of TI-O-GA Feed Service be sure your dealer 
furnishes the TI-O-GA Dairy Feed that should be used 
with the roughage you have. If he doesn’t have it, advise 
us and we will see that you are supplied. 
Tioga Mill & Elevator Co. 
Waverly, N. Y. 
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BRAN 
In 
1-O-GA Dairy Feed 
which forms a balanced ration 
with your own roughage. 
The same careful service im 
furnished through: 
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Colonel’s 
Horses) 
Brood Sow and Pis 
Feed. 
Growing Shoat Feed, 
Fattening Hog Feed. 
Chick Feed. 
Growing Mash. 
Growing Grains. 
Laying Food. 
Poultry Grains. 
Calf Food. 
Horse Feed. 
Ration (Full Feed for 
Ailing Animals 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Examine the Mouth 
Untold suffering might be ended at 
once were every owner of animals care¬ 
ful instantly to examine the mouth of the 
animal that is unable perfectly to masti¬ 
cate feed. Strange to say, this often is 
unthought of until the veterinarian is 
called. Over and over again we have 
found that to be the fact, although the 
symptoms shown by the suffering animal 
plainly indicated that the mouth was tlm 
seat of the trouble. Such symptoms are 
salivation, commonly termed “drooling” 
or “slobbering”; swollen lips, feed par¬ 
tially chewed and then ejected, an act 
usually termed “quidding”; presence of 
uuehewed grain in the feces, more es¬ 
pecially of the horse; failure to attempt 
eating, or sudden stopping of chewing and 
twisting of the head to one side, indicat¬ 
ing pain. The mouth also should be ex¬ 
amined when an animals fails to thrive, 
although supplied with an abundance of 
nutritious feed. 
We have in front of us as we write the 
reproduction of a photograph taken in a 
slaughter-house showing plainly 24 nails 
lodged in a pig’s tongue. That beast 
cannot have been comfortable, to say the 
least of it. and an observant feeder should 
have noticed something wrong, examined 
the mouth and removed the offending 
bodies. Surely the hog would have been 
thankful for the service and the rendering 
of it would have pleased any humani¬ 
tarian. 
But people often overlook symptoms 
indicative of such conditions in the ani¬ 
mals they care for. As an evidence of 
this we remember well of a settler on a 
cut-over-land farm of Northern Wiscon¬ 
sin dragging a woebegone colt forward for 
our inspection at the noon hour after an 
'institute meeting. “The critter hasn't 
been able to eat a bite properly since it 
stopped nursing,” said the honest owner, 
and the poor colt, by its tatterdemalion 
appearance, potbelly and self-evident 
ribs, corroborated the story. “Have you 
examined its mouth?” we asked, and when 
the owner, as fully expected, answered in 
the negative, we asked him to do so for 
his own benefit and that of the neighbors. 
The demonstration was a good one,'for 
it disclosed that the upper jaw overshot 
the under one by nearly three iuches, 
making prehension and mastication of 
feed practically impossible. The poor 
creature had to be put out of its misery, 
and that might have been done many 
months earlier. 
A new-born foal suddenly became un¬ 
able to swallow milk. When it nursed 
the milk ran from its mouth in a stream, 
and the little animal was becoming weak 
from semi-starvation when the owner 
asked for veterinary help. The usual 
question was asked as to examination of 
the mouth, and the answer again was in 
the negative. Rut a simple examination 
showed that the foal had tried to eat 
plauing-mill shavings, and being unable 
to swallow them they had lodged betweeu 
the tongue and cheeks on each side and 
prevented swallowing of milk. In an 
identical condition seen in another foal 
the offending material was oat straw. Had 
these things not been removed the foals 
inevitably would have died. 
A yearling draft colt was brought to us 
for examination and treatment for 
worms, as it had failed to thrive, was skin 
and bone, and had not “shed off” properly. 
It was a sorry specimen, aud a little 
questioning of the owner brought out the 
fact that hay chewed by the colt always 
fell out of the moutli; yet it had not 
struck the owner to determine the cause. 
Examination of the mouth disclosed a 
thick snag of wood” jammed betweeu the 
upper molars and across the hard palate, 
making mastication imperfect. The lodged 
6tiek quickly was pried out and the colt 
then chewed perfectly and soon became 
plump and happy. 
■ Calves that slobber often are affected 
with “calf diphtheria.” which proves fatal 
if not attended to at once. Failure to 
determine the cause of slobbering is a 
fatal mistake in the management of these 
animals. Similar slobbering in an adult 
cow or steer is a prominent symtom of 
“woodeu tongue” (actinomycosis), which 
is amenable to treatment, and of split or 
diseased molar teeth iu all animals, the 
removal of which would give/- relief. 
December IS, 1920 
Canker of the mouth in pigs, swelling 
under the jaw, lolling of the tongue and 
lack of appetite all suggest the necessity 
of examining the mouth. One distressed 
horse that lolled the tongue aud could not 
eat was examined at the end of a week of 
suffering, and the tongue found to have 
been two-thirds cut through by a wire. 
It had to be amputated. Instant atten¬ 
tion might have saved the organ. 
Remember these things and examine 
the mouth when symptoms suggestive of 
irritation are observed, and always on 
general principles, whether the symptoms 
are seen or not. That is the only sensible 
and safe course to follow. 
Worms; Lameness 
1. What ails my sheep? I have lost 
oue; two more are sick. They lie around 
aud have a swelling between the jaws 
back of the chin. They have good pas¬ 
ture aud look fine until taken. Then they 
gradually pine away and die. I bathed 
the swelling with peppermint; it disap¬ 
peared for a few days, then returned. 2. 
I have a three-year-old mare colt that 
cannot pick up her hind feet without an 
extra effort when she first starts to move 
around, but when at work does not show 
anything. They seem like an engine 
when it stops on the eccentric—they do 
not know whether to go backward or for¬ 
ward. e. S. R. 
New Jersey. 
1. Intestinal worms no doubt are kill¬ 
ing the lambs and sheep. A post-mortem 
examination should have been made to 
determine the cause. On general prin¬ 
ciples we should advise starving the 
lambs aud sheep for 24- hours and then 
dosing them with a one per cent solution 
of pure sulphate of copper (bluestoue). 
The dose for a lamb under oue year old 
is one to iy> ounces aud for an adult 
sheep 2*4 ounces. Sheep of other ages 
take doses appropriate to their age. Re¬ 
peat. the dose in 10 days. Great care 
must be taken not to suffocate the sheep 
when administering the medicine. Keep 
the flock off old pasture and feed geuerous- 
ly on oats and bran, good clover or Alfal¬ 
fa hay and roots or silage. 2. We sus¬ 
pect that the patella (kneecap) of the 
stifle joint slips out of place, aud when 
it is out.the hind leg will be thrust back¬ 
ward with the hock joint iu nearly a 
straight line. The condition is termed 
luxation of the patella or “stifled.” The 
colt should be kept tied up and the stifle 
blistered. 
Indigestion 
Will you give me a worm remedy for 
a small white poodle three years old, 
weighing about 12 lbs.? I have used pills 
from a veterinarian often, but they do 
not seem to relieve him ; tlieu the symp¬ 
toms come again. Can you suggest a diet 
for him that would keep him well nour¬ 
ished and not cause worms? J. A. c. 
Ohio. 
The poodle probably is afflicted with 
chronic indigestion from overfeeding, in¬ 
correct diet and pampering. (Jive him a 
physic of castor oil; then let him live an 
outdoor life so far as possible, as should 
every dog, aud give one small meal of 
meat every day; or allow vegetable soup 
without potatoes, aud iu addition allow a 
raw beef bone twice a week. Do not give 
him sweets of any kind and make him 
take active exercise every day. 
Heaves 
I have a 10-year-old gelding that is 
ailing. He has a hard, dry cough, takes 
his breath hard and fast sometimes. He 
runs a little at the nose. He has a good 
appetite. Can you tell me what it is. and 
what I can do for him? M. w. 
New York. 
We suspect that the horse is afflicted 
with heaves. If so, you will notice a 
heaving of the flanks when he expires air. 
This is best observed when standing at 
the rear of the horse. In bad cases of 
heaves gas also is expelled from the rec¬ 
tum during coughing spells, and the horse 
is thin, weak, scours aud “plays out” 
quickly when at work. If these symp¬ 
toms are present let the horse live on 
grass during the pasture season and 
iu Winter feed wet oat straw or oat 
sheaves aud bright corn stover, along 
with crushed oats, wheat bran aud car¬ 
rots. Keep the bowels active at all times. 
Do not give any bulky feed at noon if the 
horse has to work, aud do not work him 
soon after a meal. Either give proprie¬ 
tary heave medicine, according to direc¬ 
tions given by the manufacturer, or give 
a tablespoonful of Fowler's solution of 
arsenic night and morning until great 
improvement is noted, when the medicine 
gradually may be discontinued, taking at 
least 10 days to the process. Write again 
if we have not correctly understood the 
condition present. 
A humane society secured a downtown 
show window and filled it with attractive 
pictures of wild animals iu their native 
haunts. A placard iu the middle of the 
exhibits read ; “We were skinned to pro¬ 
vide women with fashionable furs.” A 
man paused before the window and his 
harassed expression for a moment gave 
place to oue of sympathy. “I know just 
how you feel, old tope,” he muttered. 
“So was I!”—Ladies’ Home Journal. 
