. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE SWINE—SWINE PROPER. o45> Pigs were brought to him; they were attired in queer clothing and danced to the music of a bag- pipe. ( Hher Pigs have been trained to form words of large printed letters, to indicate the time after looking at a clock, etc. An Englishman had a Pig trained to hunt. The animal was called "Slut;" it was very fond of the sport and would follow any hunter. It would point at any kind of game with the exception of
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE SWINE—SWINE PROPER. o45> Pigs were brought to him; they were attired in queer clothing and danced to the music of a bag- pipe. ( Hher Pigs have been trained to form words of large printed letters, to indicate the time after looking at a clock, etc. An Englishman had a Pig trained to hunt. The animal was called "Slut;" it was very fond of the sport and would follow any hunter. It would point at any kind of game with the exception of the Hare, which it never seemed to notice. So sensitive was its nose that it would fre- quently point at a bird at a distance of forty yards. "Slut" was employed in the capacity of pointer for several years, but was at last killed, because it had become a dangerous neighbor to the Sheep. Other Pigs have been trained to run in harness. A farmer near St. Albans, Kngland, often came in with a team of four Hogs, drove once or twice around the mar- ket-place, fed his team, and then drove back to his cause its death: as to the rest it eats anything Man eats and a hundred things beside. It selects its food indiscriminately from the vegetable and animal king- doms. It makes itself very useful on fallow land and in stubble-fields, as it destroys Mice, Maggots, Snails, Earth-worms, Grasshoppers, chrysalids of Butterflies, and various weeds, and as a result gets very fat while it is rooting up the earth. Black Hogs are said to enjoy the advantage of being able to consume poisonous plants of all kinds without injury to themselves, and therefore they are kept in some countries to either partial or total exclusion of all others. While one tries, as much as possible, during the fat- tening process to keep domestic Hogs from taking exercise, he must allow some space for recreation to those destined for breeding. They also require clean, warm folds. The pairing usually occurs twice
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