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Don't give the liquor in which potatoes are boiled to the pigs. If 

 you do they will never fatten. The tannin destrovs the lining of the 

 stomach. 



Don't keep pigs in confined places up to their bellies in mud. They 

 are not dirty in their habits except you make them so. 



Don't feed your pigs solely on maize, as pigs so fed do not command 

 the prices that peas-fed pigs do. The bacon from maize-fed pigs rapidly 

 turns rusty, and the curer cannot stock it. 



Don't send discoloured grain away ; it will pav \ou better to give 

 it to the pig, and let him do the carting. 



Don't discard pea-straw, cavings, or any straw stuff that will do for 

 bedding. It will give comfort to the pig. and ultimatelv make good 

 manure for the farm. 



Don't breed bad stock. 



Don't forget to feed the pigs regularly, and, finally. 



Don't forget that, by following out what you have heard to-day, you 

 are doing something for your country, not only by improving the breed 

 of stock, but by bringing Victoria prominently l3efore the commercial 

 world, and doing something for which \ our sons will thank you in time 

 to come. 



VI.— SOME LAW (AS IT MORE PARTICULARLY AFFECTS 



FARMERS). 



/. Wcldon Poivcr, Horsham. 



I have been asked by our President to deal with two branches of the 

 Law as it affects farmers, viz., Fencing and Travelling Stock.* Before 

 going further I wish . to distinctly state that this paper must not be 

 regarded as a treatise, even as far as it goes, upon the law involved, but is 

 intended to explain the operation of such law to my present audience ^n 

 general terms, and without anything like the accuracy of language or of 

 statement of propositions demanded in a treatise. 



Fencing. 

 The law relating to fencing is two-fold in character. First, the Com- 

 mon Law, which for our purpose is to be gathered from the decisions of 

 the Courts in many disputes over fencing and boundary questions, and, 

 second, the Statute Law, which is to be found in The Fences Act 1890. 

 Fortunately or unfortunately, it depends entirely on the point of view 

 from which you look at it, the framers of The Fences Act — which comes 

 down to us from only 1874 — have allowed the great bulk of the Common 

 Law to still remain applicable to fencing. This side of the question, 

 however, mainly affects the rights of a land owner to call to his aid the 

 provisions of the Fences Act so as to compel hiss adjoining owner to fence, 

 and the consequences flowing from neglect by an adjoining owner to 

 maintain fencing which he ought to maintain. Under this Common Law 

 it is quite possible for certain lands to become and remain burthened with 

 an obligation on the part of the owners and occupiers thereof to fence, or 

 rather maintain fencing, for the benefit of the adjoining land. In fact, 

 notwithstanding that the Fences Act in practically the same form in which 



*Owing to want of space the portion relating; to Travelling Stock has been held 

 over until a siibseqnent issue. — Editor. 



