| Show barrel Is satisfactory self feeder for swine A cheap and satisfactory feeder for young pigs can he be made from a barrel says E R gross professor of rural engineering at the state college of agriculture A method found satisfactory by many farmers and pig club boys of the state Is to knock out heads of a barrel and then alien from old boxes build a square platform IS 18 inches wider than the diameter of the barrel on tile center of this platform a pyramid with a square quire base in ia built the base Is made just juit large enough so the barrel can stand over it feed la Is then put into the barrel the bottom of which must be raised just sufficiently to permit the feed to run out As s the pigs pig eat this Is done by nailing four blocks under its edges with feed in the barrel ban el the proper height to 1 easily determined in using this or any other type of self elf feeder the owner must be sure that enough feed runs through fast enough to 0 o the pigs will never go hungry and yot not so ao fast that feed will be wasted waited underfoot |
