Show epicurean porkers corkers are favored at beltsville the hogs reputation as a gourmand Is so general that he la 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 appears are capable of even finer alner gastronomic tro oll discrimination seram I 1 nation according to J 11 II zeller swine specialist of the united states stales department of agri culture two shoats at the departments experiment peri perl ment farm at beltsville md aid he says have apparently found the inside of the corn kernel a great delicacy unlike most of their kind they do not eat cat the whole kernel but like squirrels spend hours at a time aline cracking the grain deftly extracting the meaty inside and ejecting the kernel shells in neat plies piles about the lot kernel cracking however la Is not a common accomplishment of the porker mr air zeller says and lie doubts the possibility of teaching the trick to the common herd even if it were found a desirable trait to develop |