Show SELF FEEDER IS BEST FOR SWINE animals can select their own rations better than feeder RIGHT r FOR OR FATTENING PIGS cowl comparative ill T testa a show adl advantage an tage of af allowing I 1 mg hog to hc help tl them act elves to V banou S roon feeds feed to mako make rapid growth pre prepared ed by the th united at der depart not of agriculture a a a 0 6 A self air fd IS IB at simply i a device as by means of which alrh a sup bup ply of grain or at other the food feed 1 la kept constantly available to the he hos hns I 1 in order that they may sin always satisfy the craving of the their ir up ap petites with fill respect to the ethid kind and amount of fee feed it the quick cat st the easiest fe felt aad ad most eco 6 method of 1 fattening thod 9 pigs with the th least expenditure of UI craan old and labor 1 la flu through it the use of the self feeder a hogs i ire are good judges of what miner they ustia to ell eat they can select elect their ft P permitted to do BO th thay cy will I 1 eat it the to richt p proportions m I 1 of a number ot of to feeds eds gacesa necessary essaiy ay to make rapid galli and strange to say my they will make these galas gains cheaper than it if the ration ratio I 1 is carefully measured out at and it fed to them flown by a ile hog ralser or numerous tests testa in 11 1111 which c it the S self adf feeder wid and balndford hand band feed ford methods of fattening hoga b g have been compared show how that the I 1 e marked success of it the iffrig self Iff feeding dIg system lt Is target largely due to the ili fall fact that the hogs a will eat cut I 1 an abundance hard C of those e feeds feed which will nourish them to a the b best a 9 advantage testa asins on government farm the united bulted states dep department of ng g ra 11 turn conducted two t tests e ats with till the belf a feeder nt at the experiment farm at B al t 1 l maryland and the results adl elluta illuta obtained in e from these tests show allow why self feed feeders to for far fattel fattening lug hogs are gaining 1 in popularity in one test 18 grade do berkshire pigs were re put on a 70 11 do day feeding period and it the retail relative fattening efficiency of a ration aou of cornmeal midd liag and ad fed kith the self feeder and by the hand method me was compared ed the pigs wire kept 1 in a dry lot the hand fed lot being fed three times time a da the file amount bing cove governed it b by athe the appetite that Is all the f toed it was S ids given them that they would old ell eat up cie clean while hill the self fed t an N t 16 at r Q 1 t ij P 1 young pigs helping theares themselves vea pigs had fro free access of nt at times to the three feeds placed in fil se pirate ex ts of the self elf feeder the th head hand feo fed p pigs ge were nere given a ration con rf of 5 pounds of mr cornmeal al 4 pounds of and 1 pound of tau lungO akey ate are a total of 2 5 PO pounds pods ds of teed feed and ad gained pounds pound making an beade dally daily gala gain of 14 pounds dismant a it required 1 pounds pound of grain to produce pounds permit of gain in this I 1 lot the th suit fed pike pa C consumed mood the their 1 r teed feed in the following ing proportion 19 9 pounds of cor cornnie musel al 23 pounds of age and ad I 1 pound of mdge t they consumed aund I a total of 4 pounds pound of teed feed and gained 1010 pounds permits milk mak ing so an duty ault get gain ol of 1112 P pounds it 1 in this lot it required pounds of irwin grain to produce pounds permits of get gain u allf fed pigs made much more rapid k ains by consuming hut a larger dally ration in proportion to live weight leight the than did the hard hand fed pigs pies but ti athla I 1 res rapid did gain did out not require say flay more feed in 1 proportion to the going gains in ure in live welfert in fact the heir fed plea big required require 1 I a little hill I 1 lew teed feed to sol gain I 1 pound la wal weight r shelled corn core V C cornmeal ye ill ID the other test 10 grade berkshire pig were used the object of the test tear we waa to compare the value 1 I of if commean with that of shelled corn core for or use in the belt self feeder the pigs pig wen war e divided client e it equally old and both lots kill access to leakage 1 in separate Bc parate elf If feeder frider the plea ged about M pound 1 in weight T to 0 vp complete Is the in comparison 0 a mother another lot at lot in three le ai 4 fed by amill method this tot lot had the run of an excellent ne pal gas lure love and nd vs fed all they would mould me con saime of a balanced auf calion of comment corm ueal and lot one belt fid on cornmeal and nd made am n a ftera ga dully gain of lot pounds life or more rapid a in than lhnn lot it I 1 two which alch w wa fed by the self feed plan on shelled corn and 1 mean ge and ad made daily get gain of 1 im 1 53 I 1 pounds dmd both bell tin atu w lot loll 1011 nifty it more rapid gains gain than the pig in let nt three burro which aih were a head hand fed on e corn meal 1 and lot one however el er required 81 31 pou pounds d noro a grolli grain than ihan lot tw two to produce d I 1 pounds of gain the in t pa eiDens lv rains were made do on lw lot I 1 tracee e aili the hard hand fell fed bl lot where her pounds wide of I 1 1 d feeds were required Is produce pounds of it gull gain th the get ellna we very PrO profitable fimble in n all I 1 I 1 lot lots but hulled corn carm and ad I 1 kg k belt off fed PIt duJ the best belt results tha th a testa test or are burns borne out cut hy by all outlined obtained nt at a number of state expert ment cut st stations t burs 1 in all 11 nearly early pigs pig have been used in tests testa it at these near a aai lions and the results result liow how clearly that more rapid gains are obtained with the self feed feeder the than by the best hand feeling feeding rort method boal 1 partly owing to the larger didi dalh I 1 lo consumption of feed per par head 8 pounds comp compared d to 5 47 pounds pound and partly parti owing to the more ere efficient use nee of if fl grain fia led feed the these to tetel 1 show enow that the file average dall daiev gain per 11 head it by the hard hand fed method we was pounds and by the cliffod self fed method pounds the average sure durecout cout of feed eed per pounds permits of gain we was P pounds it bv be it the hard hand fed method and ad 1 pounds by the self fed methods |