Show Self-Feeders Self Adapted for Heavy Grain Feed Self feeders for tor grain have been used continuously for many years by some of ot the leading steer feeders In Inthe Inthe Inthe the corn belt They are especially suitable for feeding heavy y rations of grain In fact tact self self fed ted steers usually eat more and make grenter greater gains than fed hand fed steers Many of ot us feed hay bay by the self feeder method to fattening fatten fatten- fattenIng fattening ing steers but we do not call cull It by that name In self feeding grain great care must mu t be given to starting cattle on feed To turn a bunch of ot hungry steers that are arc not used to gr grain ln onto a self feeder eder which allows them nU all they can eat would bo be disastrous Animals of ot this tills kind should be hand hand- hand fed fed for for a n month or more in the troughs of the self feeder er until they are com corn completely completely on a full feed of ot grain One should start with about one part ot of grain to three parts of ot roughage by b weight Then gradually gradually Increase the grain until the cattle are arc getting three parts of grain to two parts of ot rough rough- roughage roughage roughage age at the end of ot the first month Ot Of course toward the latter part of tile the fattening period the cattle will be eat eat- eatIng cat Ing lag Ing about three times titres as much grain as roughage |