Chap. VIII,] Cows, Sheep, Hogs, &c. 177 



what is done by neither horse, cow, sheep, dog nor cat. 

 And this should admonish us to provide hogs with warm 

 and comfortable lodging. Their sagacity in providing 

 against cold in the night, when they have it in their 



?ower to make such provision, is quite wonderful, 

 on see them looking about for the warmest spot : then 

 they go to work, raking up the litter so as to break the 

 wind off; and when they have done their best, they lie 

 down, I had a sow that had some pigs running about 

 with her in April last. There was a place open to 

 her on each side of the barn. One faced the east and 

 the other the west; and, I observed, that she sometimes 

 took to one side and sometimes to the other. One 

 evening her pigs had gone to bed on the east side. She 

 was out eating till it began to grow dusk. I saw her 

 go into her pigs, and M'as surprised to see her come 

 out again ; and therefore, looked a little to see >vhat 

 she was after. There was a high heap of dung in the 

 front of the barn to the south. She walked up to the 

 top of it, raised her nqse, turned it very slowly, two or 

 three times, from the north-east to the north-west, and 

 back again, and at last, it settled at about south-east, 

 for a little bit. She then came back, marched aAvay 

 very hastily to her pigs, roused them up in a great bus- 

 tle, and away she trampled with them at her heels to 

 the place on the west side of the barn. There was so 

 little wind, that I could not tell which way it blew, till 

 I took up some leaves, and tossed them in the air. I 

 then found, that it came from the precise point which 

 her nose had settled at. And thus was I convinced, that 

 she had come out to ascertain which way the wind 

 came, and finding it likely to make her young ones cold 

 in the night, she had gone and called them up, though 

 it was nearly dark, and taken them off to a more com- 

 fortable birth. Was this an instinctive, or was it a 

 reasoning proceeding ? At any rate, let us not treat 

 such animals as if they were stocks and stones. 



309. Poultry. — I merely mean to observe, as to 

 poultry, that they must be kept away from turnips and 

 cabbages, especially in the early part of the growth of 

 these plants. When turnips are an inch or two high 

 a good large flock of turkeys will destroy an acre in 

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