American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . hill districts. Yet it is said to do well inmost localities where the air is pure, the heat not oppressive, and water for bathing readilyaccessible. The latter is stated to be indispensable to the health of the animal, which, whendeprived of this requisite, soon becomes fevered and infected with scab. While the introduction of the alpaca into this country still remains a matter ofexperiment, there is no known reason why such experiments should not be successful, whenproperly con
American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . hill districts. Yet it is said to do well inmost localities where the air is pure, the heat not oppressive, and water for bathing readilyaccessible. The latter is stated to be indispensable to the health of the animal, which, whendeprived of this requisite, soon becomes fevered and infected with scab. While the introduction of the alpaca into this country still remains a matter ofexperiment, there is no known reason why such experiments should not be successful, whenproperly conducted, in localities affording some approximation of the native conditions of theanimal. Not to mention many elevated situations in the Atlantic, Northern, and CentralStates, the regions lying along the Rocky Mountain ranges have been indicated as presentinggood opportunities for such trials. It therefore still remains to be seen whether the rearing of these animals in the UnitedStates shall prove a success, and thus open a new field of enterprise and wealth hithertoJinknown in the agriculture of this 1195 SWINE. THE present domestic breeds of swine are the remote offspring of the wild swine (Susscrofa), and though occupying a less prominent place in the estimation of the farmergenerally than the horse, ox, or sheep, the hog is nevertheless an animal of greatvalue, being easily reared, arriving quickly at maturity, subsisting on a great variety of yielding a larger and quicker return in the amount of flesh in proportion to live weightand food consumed, than any other domestic animal whose flesh is used for food. This animal is found in almost every zone, although his natui-al habitat, as with most ofthe thick-skinned animals, is in warm climates. Ihe original country of the hog, however, isunknown, as is the case with many of the domestic animals. It has been known to exist ina wild state in Asia, Europe, and Africa, ever since history began. A species of wi
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