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Show All Big Eaters WOUI t CHAMPION MII.KKH, Green Meadow t.ily Tabst. boasted 4 hearty bihoUU' during her recm-d production of 4Z.H05 lbs. of milk in a liG.Sday test as a seven year old. Her daily menu: nlfalfa-brome nlfalfa-brome pasture day and niKht, 40 lbs. uf grain, and all the alfalfa huv she wanted. Last two months on test, she tucked away an extra bushel of cat-ruts daily. Her home Green Meadow J arms, Klsie. Mich. i APPfcTITb of a two-ton hippopotamus, hippopota-mus, with a four-foot mouth and a stomach about 10 feet long, calls for a 75 pound bale of chopped hay daily. (N. V. ZoolnKlrnl Society rhotol m4 Tt vw I SHICKWS ARK KAVl.N- l OliiS, mouse-like animals I that eat their own weight duilv. Native to the U. S., they eat mostly bugs and ' worms but get so hungry they attack and devour ! animals larger than them-s them-s selves. (Chlc;u'o Nnturnl History Museum Mu-seum 1'hotol BIGGEST "HOG" OF ALL is this new McCormick i-.av baler, capable capa-ble of baling 10 times its own weight every hour. USDA indicates today's farming methods enable farmers to produce a ton of hay with only half the labor required 15 years ago. Production per farm worker has doubled since 1940. Development of other labor-saving labor-saving machinery is certain to bring even greater efficiencies in farming durina Uia -vanris aboH |