. Biggle swine book. Swine. [from old catalog]. 142 BIGGLE SWINE BOOK. Swine, like human beings, suffer from wet feet. The hog, unlike the farmer, grunts when grateful Don't breed " squealers ; " the well-bred hog is seldom noisy. Bury the idea that anything is good enough to feed the hog. Sows should be weeded out as well as cows. Keep only good milkers. A tame pig will turn its owner a profit, a wild one is a nuisance on any farm. Don't keep the boar with crooked legs, no matter what his pedigree may be. Many old farmers scrub scabby pigs with but- "" '^^ termilk, and it
. Biggle swine book. Swine. [from old catalog]. 142 BIGGLE SWINE BOOK. Swine, like human beings, suffer from wet feet. The hog, unlike the farmer, grunts when grateful Don't breed " squealers ; " the well-bred hog is seldom noisy. Bury the idea that anything is good enough to feed the hog. Sows should be weeded out as well as cows. Keep only good milkers. A tame pig will turn its owner a profit, a wild one is a nuisance on any farm. Don't keep the boar with crooked legs, no matter what his pedigree may be. Many old farmers scrub scabby pigs with but- "" '^^ termilk, and it proves to be a good thing. The old legal fence in Pennsylvania was re- quired to be horse high, bull strong and hog tight. Kill a runt that won't grow with proper care, and in nine cases out often you will find traces of organic disease. Sudden changes are usually to be avoided, but the change from a wet bed to a dr\' one cannot be too sudden. Do not compel the brood sow to climb a steep plank to get into her pen : it causes serious injury and difficult births. It has been determined by actual experiment that poor feed- ing is the great cause for extra development in the length of the snout. All the improved breeds are able to equal their advertised per- formances, but it requires skill on the part of the breeder and feeder. Here is a good way to lead a little pig. Tie the rope around his throat so it will nut choke him, then carry it back and make a loop back of his legs. He can't get away if the rope doesn't break and you can hold him. A friend of mine has a box with a slit at the bottom opening into a trough in which he keeps constantly a mixture of one pound of copperas, one pound of sulphur, one pound of black antmiony, one-quarter pound of saltpetre, one quart of salt and one-half bushel of wood ashes. He has it in a dry place where all his hogs can get at it and thinks this is one reason why he has never had cholera on his place. It used to be quite common in some sectio
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