Show self feeder Is best for swine unmannerly greediness and gluttony done away with by device prepared b by the united states state department of agriculture hoggishness and eating like a pig a are re traditional phrases to describe unmannerly greediness and gluttony recent experiments in the alie feeding of pigs suggest that the phrases do not always apply when pigs are fed by hand they do in fact rush in to make sure of their share of the feed but put hogs in a pasture and they graze leisurely and la iii contentment tent ment help themselves relve if instead of feeding by hand the owner In installs a self feeder from which the hogs and pigs may eat what they want when they want it and in whatever quantity they desire they soon lose their gluttonous ways commenting ona on a series of comparative feeding tests in which sows bows were self fed and hand fed EZ E Z russell Il of the united states department of agriculture ri said a noticeable fact about the sows bows in the self belt fed lots was that there never was any crowding atthe at tha feeders scarcely ever were there more than two or three sows bows entin eating ni at the same time even when a dozen or more bows sows were being fed from the one feeder only a wall quantity would be consumed at one time it was taken slowly and apparently thoroughly masticated and digested lose gluttony ways way probably this moderate eating end and thorough digestion accounts for some of the good results of self feeding the natural presumption of most persons who have seen hogs eat would be they would waste a great amount of grain and would overeat thought would be t to 0 question whether the saving in labor would 0 uld more than balen balanced ced by waste of feed instead of this careful experimentation shows that the labor cost Is only one saving from self feeding self fed hogs eat less grain than Is usually fed by hand they make better gains from the quantity consumed and the quantity of grain consumed per pound of gain Is lower loner than with hogs bogs fed on a platform in a teed feed lot when left to their own devices eating like a pig seems to meanest mean eat ing with a nicely adjusted instinctive reg regulation of the diet for maxima mail muia growth and development |