Show epicurean porkers corkers are favored at beltsville the hogs reputation as a gourmand la Is so general that lie Is rarely credited with any refinement of appetite even farmers were surprised a few years ago to find that these greedy animals would select the proper feeds for a balanced ration if served the cafeteria way some hogs however it now ap pears ore are capable of even finer gastronomic tron tro omle disc discrimination nation according to 7 H zeller swine specialist of the united states department of agriculture two shoats at the departments experiment peri ment farm at beltsville md bid he says have apparently found tile inside of the corn kernel a great gereht delicacy unlike most of their kind they do not eat the whole kernel but like squirrels spend hours at a time cracking the grain deftly extracting the meaty inside and ejecting the kernel shells in neat piles about the lot kernel cracking however Is not a common accomplishment of the porker mr zeller says and lie he doubts the possibility of teaching the trick to the common herd even if it were found a desirable trait to develop |