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Article XLVI. 

 Experiments on the Feeding of Swine. 



[By George Winter, efq.] 

 Sir, 



SHOULD the following experiments be ef- 

 teemed worthy the notice of the Bath Society, 

 you are at full liberty to make them publick. 



As fwine is one of the moft increafing, pro- 

 fitable, and fagacious* fpecies of animals that can 

 be kept on a farm, they muft deferve the hufband- 

 man's particular attention. I will confine myfelf 

 to fuch obfervations on this fubjedl, as I have not 

 yet feen made publick, 



• I have obferved the fagacity of fwine to be equal to that of any ' 

 domeftick animal. The too general barbarous bseatment of kicking 

 and beating tliem, as if inanimate beings, only tends to make them 

 vicious and furious. I do not permit any of my fwine to be in the 

 lead abufed, but give eveiy encouragement to have them gently 

 treated. By this mode, they will follow the boy who feeds theia 

 like fo many dogs; and will, even in the open field, lay themfelves 

 down to be fmoothed and played with. 



One of my labourers living near me, was lately employed on a com- 

 mon in front of my houfe. I obferved his pig grazing near him all 

 the morning. When the man went to dinner, the pig followed him ; 

 when he returned to his work, the pig returned : which induced me 

 to be very attentive ; and I found that the pig continued grazing 

 within ten yards of him the whole day. On enquiry, I was informed 

 that he had not purchafed this pig more than a fortnight before, 

 when he was fo unmanageable, that it was with difficulty he could 

 drive him home; and that according to his ufual method of the 

 moft gentle treatment, the man found that pigs could be fo tamed, 

 M to follow liim wiicrevcr he would permit them. 



