If you are using a gravity feeder you should have not wasted your time attaching it to a tree and just dumped out 50lbs of corn on the ground. :-) They are only good if you want to take pictures of the deer with a trail cam... you can get two photos a min for an hours straight.all the woodland creatureswill sit there all day till the well runs dry.

Spreader is the way to go.... Make them work for the food a bit. The will once they know its's there.