Show Self-Feeders Self Adapted for Heavy Grain Glain Feed Self feeders for grain have ha been used continuously for many veirs vears by some of ot the leading steer feeders In Inthe inthe inthe the corn belt They are especially suitable for feeding ln he hey heavy y rations ot of grain In fact self fed steers steers usually eat more and make greater gains than hand fed steers Many of ot us feed bay by the self feeder method to fatten fattenIng fattenIng lag Ing steers but we do not cull call it by that name In self feeding grain great care must be gl glen given en to starting cattle on feed To turn a bunch of 01 hungry steers that are arc not used to grain onto a self feeder fE-eder which allows them aU all they cm can eat cit would be ue disastrous Animals of ot this kind hind should be hand fed for a month or more in the troughs ot of the self feeder until they are corn com completely on a full feed teed of grain One should start si Ith about one part ut of grain to three parts of ot roughage by weight Then gradually increase the grain until the cattle ire are getting three parts of ot grain to two parts of ot rough roughage roughage roughage age at the end of ot the first month Of course toward the latter part of ot the fattening period the cattle will III be eat eat- eatIng eat eating ing lag about three times as much graIn as roughage |