Rich County Reaper | 1930-06-06 | Page 2 | Self-Feeders Adapted for Heavy Grain Feed

self feeders adapted for heavy grain feed self feeders for grain have been used continuously for many years by some of the leading steer feeders in the corn wt belt they are especially suitable for feeding heavy rations of grain in fact self fei fed steers usually eat more and make greater gains than hand fed steers many of us feed hay by the self feeder method to fattening steers but we do not call it by that name in self feeding grain greit great gre it care falusi must ii be glien given to it starting arting cattle on feed to turn a bunch of hungry steers ateer that are not used to grain onto a self feeder which allows them nil all they can call eat would be disastrous animals of this kind should be hand fed for a month or more in the troughs of the self feeder until they are completely on oil a full feed of krala grain one should start with about one part u af f grain to three parts of roughage by weight then gradually increase the grain until the cattle are aie getting three parts of grain to two parts of roughage at the end of the first month of course toward the latter part of the fattening period the cattle will be eating aing about three times ns as touch much grain as roughage liage