| Show self seeder feeder Is best ast for swine unmannerly greediness and gluttony done away with by device prepared Prop arca by the united states department of agriculture hoggishness Hoggish neBs and eating like a pig dig are traditional phrases to describe unmannerly greediness and gluttony tony recent experiments in the feeding of 0 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 tile the feed but put hogs in a pasture fuld and they graze leisurely and in contentment tent ment help themselves it if instead of feeding by hand the owner installs a self feeder from which the ehg hogs and pigs may eat cat what they want when they want it and in whatever quantity they desire they soon lose their gluttonous ways commenting on a series of combar alive feeding tests in which sows bows were self fed and hand fed E Z russell of the e united states department of ak ag ale e said a noticeable fact about the 0 o S bows sows s in the self fed lots was that 41 there 11 never ever was any crowding at the leeders feeders scarcely ever were there bore more than two or three sows bows eating at the samo same time even when a dozen or OE more ore sows bows were being fed from the tha ne feeder only a small quantity would be consumed at one time it was taken slowly and apparently apparent 15 01 ily ma sti caten tina and digested ul Es e lose gluttony ways probably tills moderate eating and thorough digestion accounts for some of the good results of self feeding the natural presumption 0 n of most persons who have seen hogs cat would be that they would waste a great amount of grain and would overeat the first thought thou glit would be to question whether the hie saving in labor would not be more than balanced by waste of feed instead of tills careful experimentation shows that the labor cost la is only one saving from self feeding self fed hogs cat less grain than is usually feu fed by hand they make better gains from the hie quantity consumed and th the quantity of grain consumed per pound p aund of gain is lower than with hogs fed on a platform in a feed lot when left to their own devices eating like a pl pig seems to mean eating with a nicely adjusted instinctive regulation of the diet for maximum growth and development |
