The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24

savers and one of the most economical | and efficient means of feeding hogs is | the self-feeder. Many experiments com | pairing the self-feeder with feeding by hand show not only that it is aN time- saver, but that more pounds of pork will | be produced with given number of pounds of grain by using the self-feeder. | This applies not only to the use of corn. ! but to ground and meal feeds, such as 1 tankage, shorts, middlings, peanut meal l soy bean meal and the like.
 1 It is highly desirable from stand point of saving labor that the feeds used | for hogs and other animals be fed as near as possible to the crib or granary. Feed 1 ing floors should be built adjoining corn l cribs or granaries holding shelled corn. ! It will save feed as well as labor. 1 Another means of saving labor in hog growing is the more extended use of 1 " oven-wire fences. If the fields and lots have hog-tight fencing, the owner can save much of the waste after harvesting | by allowing animals to forage in the | fields Such fencing makes it possible to hog down corn and other forage crops. Hcgs thus cared for require little at | tention during the pasturing season, which l is at least six or seven months in most parts of the country.
 LET SHEEP HARVEST CROPS Ordinarily the management of sheep | calls for comparatively small demands upon farm labor. The labor cost for a dollars worth of wool or lamb is lower | than for any other farm animal product Sheep raising, however requires steady and continuous attention. As with hogs, sheep may be pastured in corn fields at l a great saving in labor. This practice
 has proved satisfactory in many states larger use of forage crops for fatten- l ing mutton sheep can be made with saw zf 1aL r,1a itc inc on large gains with crops harvested en- l tirely by the animals. In many sections l fall-sown wheat and rye can be grazed | by sheep, thereby making a saving in ,, winter feed as well as in the labor of | feeding. Self-feeders for the feeding | of hay to fatten sheep and lambs can be used to good advantage. They are not recommended for the feeding of grain to sheep and lambs.
 SAVING LABOR WITH CATTLE | Ir general, labor in beef cattle opera
 tions may be saved in two ways The
 first which probably will offer the quick
 est relief and rot require an extra outlay | of capital is to alter the daily routine l of chores so as to reduce the amount of | labor needed. Stack coarse roughages in
 racks from which the cattle may eat at | will instead of rationng their feed to | them daily. Use self-feeders in fatten- l ing cattle for market instead of meas uring out the feed once or twice a day. | The second way to have labor with beef
 cattle is to supply labor saving equipment. | While this method requires an expendi-
 tUre of money, the equipment supplied will be permanent and in the long run
 will save considerable labor. The fol- lowing are some of the forms of equip
 ment that should be supplied for this pur- pose Permanent pasture, self-feeders, l feed racks, deep well, windmill, a l water-piping system, water troughs, lit ! ter carriers, a manure spreader, a de-
 horning shoot and pasture fencing.