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Show j Easy Access to Water Beneficial to Swine It has been demonstrated many j times by experiment stations as well i as by thousands of producers that : hogs do better and make larger gains from a given amount of feed when they have constant access to water. Normally a hog drinks only small quantities at a time, but It likes to drink often. It will drink several times during one feeding period when it can run to a self-feeder at will. When the feed is thrown on the ground or on a feeding floor where the individual hog must eat in competition with a large group it is not likely to-stop to-stop for water so long as there Is grain to eat. But when It can run to a self-feeder It soon learns that there will he plenty of feed left when It returns. Then It begins to eat more deliberately and to drink several times before it has satisfied its hunger. |