CHAP. VIII.] COWS, SHEEP, HOGS, &C. 309 



labour of milking and of the subsequent opera 

 tions, all being performed by women, is of great 

 inconvenience. Better let each pig suck its 

 adopted mother at once, which would save a 

 monstrous deal of labour, and prevent all pos 

 sibility of waste. There would be no slopping 

 about ; and, which is a prime consideration in 

 a dairy system, there would be clean milking ; 

 for, it has been proved by DOCTOR ANDERSON, 

 that the last drop is fourteen times as good as 

 the first drop; and, I will engage, that the 

 grunting child of the lowing mother would have 

 that last drop twenty times a day, or would pull 

 the udder from her body. I can imagine but 

 one difficulty that can present itself to the mind 

 of any one disposed to adopt this improve 

 ment ; and that is, the teaching of the pig to 

 suck the cow. This will appear a difficulty to 

 those only who think unjustly of the under 

 standings of pigs : and, for their encourage 

 ment, I beg leave to refer them to DANIEL'S 

 RURAL SPORTS, where they will find, that, in 

 Hampshire, Sir John Mildmay's gamekeeper, 

 Toomer, taught a sow to point at partridges 

 and other game; to quarter her ground like a 

 pointer, to back the pointers, when she hunted 

 with them, and to be, in all respects, the most 

 docile pointer of the finest nose. This fact is 

 true beyond all doubt. It is known to many 



