Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1914 — Lambs and the Self Feeder. [ARTICLE]

Lambs and the Self Feeder.

We all differ in our methods (la feeding lambs. Some of us '“get there’’ much better than others, and succeed in fattening the lambs. A man that can not make them fat, does not long continue in the business. I never tried the self-feeder, for the simple reason, at first, that the evidence of the experiment stations was decidedly against the practice. As experience comes to me, I am more strongly against the practice. Station work says that gains by the use of the self feeder are more costly than gains otherwise made. Any one that has ever fed lambs, knows, or should know, that a lamb will not leave a feed that he likes till he is full and in too maay instances, too full. Then he stands off until hunger impels him to feed again. If the other lambs have “blown” upon the feed that he must eat, he will not touch it till very hungry, and then he eats too much again. This “see-saw” way of feeding must belong to the self-feeder. Then another objection to the ►elffeeder is, the corn must be s>«ll .d, which entails a great deal of b_rd labor unless a man has a power sheller, which adds muchjto the expense and care of the plant. In my experience, I have found it much more easy to pick the cqbs out of a rack than to feed th* ears into a corn sheller While the other fellow turned the crank. —John M. Jamison in the Ohio Farmer.

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