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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 15, 1921 
Hand mixing 
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FEED SERVICE 
Time was when folks ground their own flour, 
tanned hides and made boots, spun yam and 
wove cloth. Mixing grain by hand on the barn 
floor today is just as unprofitable. 
Admitting that the feeder knows all the require¬ 
ments of a balanced ration—knows where, when 
and what to buy to supplement feeds already on 
the farm, hand mixing is inefficient, costly, and 
hard work. 
TI-O-GA Feed Service is under the personal 
supervision of experts who know what to buy 
and where to buy; they know what ingredients 
to use in compounding feeds to maintain scientific 
standards at lowest cost to the feeder. Modern 
machinery is used for mixing feeds to form bal¬ 
anced rations which make results certain when 
fed with the class of roughage as intended. 
Red Brand TI-O-GA Dairy Feed 
to be fed with low protein succulent roughage: Silage, 
Pasturage, 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 of TI-O-GA Dairy 
Feed to balance your roughage, advise us and we will ar¬ 
range for some nearby dealer to supply you. 
Our book on TI- O- GA Feed Service and explanation 
of how the three feeds give the same results, sent free on 
request. 
Tioga Mill & Elevator Co. 
Waverly, N.Y. 
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Use the TI-O-GA Dairy Feed 
which forms a balanced ration 
with your own roughage. 
The same careful service ia 
furnished through: 
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 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). 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Grain Ration to Feed with Cabbage 
As I have got about 40 tons of cabbage, 
and have been offered only $S a ton, I 
would like to know what grain ration 
would be best for milk cows. I am feed¬ 
ing ground oats and hominy at present. 
Binghamton, X. Y. c. E. 
I find the best dairymen advise, for use 
with cabbage beads or roughage, with at 
least one feed of hay per day, a grain 
ration rich in protein. Cabbage is an ex¬ 
cellent succulent feed, and may be fed 
liberally, the amount used being deter¬ 
mined by the excreta. Too much leads 
to excessive looseness of the bowels. How¬ 
ever. the bowels need to be kept open aud 
active for best milk yields, and cabbage 
is useful for this purpose. A favorite 
grain ration used by dairymen who study 
market conditions of both bay and other 
roughage, as well as of the grain ration, 
is as follows, feeding 1 lb. of grain to 
each o lbs. of milk : 400 lbs. oats and bar¬ 
ley, ground, or plain prime oats, ground; 
100 lbs. wheat bran, 100 lbs. gluten feed, 
300 lbs. cottonseed meal, 100 lbs. oilmeal. 
This would allow C. E. II. to use his 
home-grown barley aud oats to advantage. 
It will be seen that practically all of these 
feeds are rich in protein, while half of 
them are heavy proteins, making a good 
combination with cabbage, which has lit¬ 
tle protein. Since money has become so 
scarce on the farms, many who are con- 
fat? I give her Alfalfa hay, but she does 
not seem to eat much. Would Alfalfa 
leaves in mash be better? Boar is in 
fine shape; not too fat, and am feeding 
him about same ration. Would you sug¬ 
gest best for each? 4. I have bunch (IS) 
purebred registered Shropshires, due to 
lamb in January to February. I give 
Alfalfa and mixed Timothy now, mostly 
Alfalfa. When should I begin on grain 
and mangels? I think mangels would 
better come when lambs come, as I have 
not many mangels for everything (about 
six tons). 5. What is a good laying ra¬ 
tion for chickens? I am feeding mash 
always in hoppers of bran, cornmeal and 
Alfalfa leaves, with meat scrap, ground 
oats. Grain mixture in morning, wheat, 
Kaffir corn and cracked corn, and at night 
whole corn. Is this right, and what 
quantities best? R. M. s. 
• Pennsylvania. 
1. I judge from your letter that you 
have Alfalfa hay, but no silage. The fol¬ 
lowing ration is recommended for cows: 
200 lbs. ground oats, 100 lbs. wheat bran, 
200 lbs. oilmeal. 200 lbs. cornmeal or 300 
lbs. corn and cob meal. 200 lbs. gluten. 
This ration should be fed at the rate of 
1 lb. of grain to three pints of milk, to¬ 
gether with 30 lbs. of mangels daily. A 
cow should be able to consume at least 
10 lbs. of Alfalfa daily. I believe you 
would get better results from your corn 
nubbins to feed them to the hogs only. 
2. A good ration for your bull is three 
parts cornmeal, one part bran, five parts 
oats, one part oilmeal. Feed him enough 
to keep him growing, but do not let him 
get over fat. 
3. Your ration for brood sow and boar 
Grand Champion Wether at the International. Bred by Jess C. Andrews of 
Indiana 
viuced of the high feeding value of cab¬ 
bage, when fed to milk cows, are hoping 
for a chance even yet to get $S a ton. 
Where the crop is stored safely and is 
keeping well there is a tendency to wait 
for a later market, as there are so few 
other crops that are in demand at any¬ 
where near production costs now. Some 
are using beet pulp and molasses, with 
this hope, even though molasses is now 
high. Two pounds of pulp per cow. with 
one-half pint of molasses mixed with the 
water the pulp was soaked in, makes a 
fair succulent feed if there is no cabbage, 
or if there is a desire to hold it little 
longer. M - F - 
Feeding the Farm Stock 
1. I wish to get a good balanced yet 
economical ration for our cows, three- 
fourths to seven-eighths grade Guernseys, 
of about 1.000 to 1.100 lbs. weight, and 
giving milk averaging 4*4%. I am 
now feeding a mixture of 100 lbs. gluten, 
100 lbs. cornmeal. 25 lbs. cottonseed meal. 
25 lbs. ground oats, 1 lb. to 2 qts. milk, 
with 10 lbs. cut mangels and 5 lbs. nub¬ 
bins. cut up small; Alfalfa bay (fine), 
what they will clean up. Feed prices are, 
gluten, per 100 lbs.. $3.50; oilmeal, $3.50; 
bran, $2.75; ground oats. $3. I can get 
other feeds; have cornmeal and will have 
coril and cob meal when cobs dry out. 2. 
What is best ration for year-old Guern¬ 
sey bull used with herd of six to seven 
cows? I want to keep him right, but not 
“ornery.” I give him grain in form af 
meal, with nubbins and Alfalfa hay; 
about 3 lbs. grain per day and all the hay 
he eats. 3. I have sow I wish to breed 
at Christmas time; am giving middlings 
(red dog) and cornmeal, with handful of 
tankage twice a day in warm slop, skim- 
milk in morning and warm _ water in 
afternoon. At noon a few nubbins of corn 
and slops from three or four houses fur¬ 
nish fresh stuff. Will this make her too 
is all right, except I would not advise 
feeding cornmeal when you are feeding 
nubbins. Alfalfa hay is excellent for hogs, 
and would not advise the extra trouble of 
feeding leaves. 
4. You should begin feeding grain and 
mangels to your ewes about three weeks 
before lambing time, giving them about 3 
lbs. of a ration of equal parts corn aud 
oats and one-half part bran. Feed man¬ 
gels gradually up to 10 or 15 lbs. daily, 
but do not allow the buck or wethers to 
receive any mangels, as they cause gall¬ 
stones. Timothy bay is constipating, aud 
I would advise feeding Alfalfa alone. 
5. For your poultry, a scratch feed of 
200 lbs. cracked corn, 100 lbs. wheat. 100 
lbs. oats and 100 lbs. barley is advised. 
Your mash should consist of equal parts, 
by weight, of bran, wheat middlings, 
ground oats, cornmeal. gluten feed aud 
meat scrap. Alfalfa leaves are good for 
all live stock. j. J. b. 
Preservative for Sweet Butter 
Is there any preservative for sweet but¬ 
ter? If so. what is it, and how much of 
it do you use in the cream? I am mak¬ 
ing sweet butter, and one of my customers 
complained that they got butter that 
tasted bitter. Other people who got but¬ 
ter from the same batch told me the but¬ 
ter was good, as usual, but to do away 
with further complaints I would like to 
put some preservative iu it. M. R. 
Pennsylvania. 
I would advise you not to add any pre¬ 
servative to cream in the making of sweet 
butter. This would be adulteration, and 
is against the State laws. On the other 
hand, it would be dangerous to add a 
preservative to butter for consumption. 
The bitter taste in your butter is due to 
some organism that is in the cream. This 
can be overcome by taking the proper 
precautions to clean the cows' udders be¬ 
fore milking and to keep the milk or 
cream away from any possible taints or 
odors. Be sure that all your utensils aud 
separator are sterilized each day. J. J. B. 
