FEEDING PIGS 



them while I spread the rest evenly. I am lucky if 

 I manage the trick without spilling the feed, and the 

 racket is deafening. By the time I am done I am 

 "all het up" and feel like taking the club and giv- 

 ing them a good mauling. I know I am to blame 

 myself for having things in such shape, but that 

 doesn't make me like the pigs a bit more. How- 

 ever, the trouble will be over in about a week, and 

 we shall have a new pen and a proper trough for 

 the next batch of pigs that we are arranging to raise 

 for the good of the country. A man can fight 

 a couple of pigs at meal times, but a whole litter 

 would probably prove unmanageable. 



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