The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 19, 1924 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minklef 
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How to Prove the Value of 
A Dairy Feed 
There’s only one way to prove absolutely the value 
of a dairy feed or what it costs: that’s by actual 
feeding. The highest priced feed may be the cheapest 
if it gives the results. 
Every feeder can and should find out for himself the 
feed that is best for his use. 
Compare Tioga Dairy Feeds with any other 
dairy feed you can buy. Prove their merits by results. 
You can make this test on a few of your cows. 
"When making this test, use the brand of Tioga 
Dairy Feed that forms a balanced ration with your 
roughage. Don’t mix any other feed with it, and feed 
according to the table on the tag. Feed 
Red Brand Tioga Dairy Feed 
with low protein succulent roughage. 
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with medium protein dry roughage. 
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If your dealer doesn’t have Tioga Dairy Feeds 
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Waverly, N. Y. 
Poor Ration 
I am milking 10 cows and I am not 
satisfied with the amount of milk I am 
getting. I feed clover hay mornings, 
bean pods at noon, and cut stalks at 
night. I have no silage. For a grain 
ration I am feeding 100 lbs. of ground 
corn. 100 lbs. of ground oats, and 100 lbs. 
of wheat bran, four quarts twice daily. 
Michigan. A - A. c. 
It is not surprising that you are not 
satisfied with the yield of milk that your 
10 cows are giving. A ration consisting 
of 100 lbs. of ground oats and 100 lbs. 
of wheat bran would not contain enough 
protein to enable cows to produce milk 
profitably and in any quantity. Such a 
combination would carry only about 12 
per cent of protein which is not enough 
for cows in milk but about sufficient for 
cows not in milk. Even though you feed 
an abundance of hay morning and night 
and provide bean pods for the noon meal, 
still four quarts of their ration supplied 
would be deficient in protein. Try the 
combination given below of grains and 
concentrates and feed the same amount 
of hay that you are now feeding. Make 
sure, however, that the cows are fed 
grain in proportion to the daily produc¬ 
tion of milk. I am using the three prod¬ 
ucts mentioned as a basis for the follow¬ 
ing mixture: 250 lbs. cornmeal, 200-lbs. 
I oats, 150 lbs. linseed meal, 200 lbs. 
1 gluten meal, 150 lbs. bran, 50 lbs. cotton- 
| seed meal. 
If it is impossible for you to get the 
I cottonseed meal in your territory, then 
increase the amount of linseed meal to 
200 lbs. In fact, this substitution would 
perhaps simplify mixing and would give 
you better results since you have neither 
silage nor succulence. 
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Feeding Oat Straw 
I have a herd of 12 Holstein cows, and 
as I am short of hay. I would like to 
know if it would be all right to substi¬ 
tute the noon feeding of hay with wheat 
bran. How much bran should they re 
ceive in place of three pounds mixed hay? 
They have silage twice daily, oat straw 
iu the morning and hay at noon and night 
besides the regular grain allowance. 
New York. *. A - c - 
Wheat bran cannot properly be used as 
a substitute for hay. Where cows have 
all the silage that they will consume and 
then have access to oat straw it will be 
possible to get along without the usual 
feeding of hay. However, I am sure that 
I should use some moistened beet pulp to 
substitute for the hay and to supplement 
the silage. 
I should incorporate some bran in the 
regular mixed feed; but I should not 
feed the grain at noon as suggested; 
rather, I should feed the grain in two 
feedings morning and night on the silage, 
and would use the straw as the bulky 
feed at noon. I have always contended 
that oat straw was worth quite as much 
under a cow as it is in the cow; but, 
under the circumstances, I think that 
some nice, clean, bright oat straw would 
improve the mechanical mixture and jus¬ 
tify its use in this case. 
You do not state the particular grain 
ration that you are feeding; but I am 
assuming that it carries between 22 and 
24 per cent of protein and that it will 
be compounded from quality products 
rather than extracted from a source 
where it is known that low grade prod¬ 
ucts predominate. I do know that cows 
fed all of the silage that they will con¬ 
sume will eat a surprisingly small amount 
of hay. On the other hand I know that 
a small amount of clover hay fed under 
such conditions would very materially in 
crease the flow of milk. 
Roughage, in my opinion, is the basis 
of successful dairy feeding. One can get 
along with a mighty poor grain ration 
provided his cows have a good grade of 
clover or Alfalfa hay in abundance. Ex¬ 
perience must be your guide and the only 
way to determine the value of this plan 
is to try it out in your own barn on your 
own cows in your own way. I am sure 
however, that there would be disappoint¬ 
ment if one expected any herd of milk 
cows to carry on for any length of time 
I ou roughage limited to oat straw. 
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