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to such purpose, and are besides very prolific. Most 

 countries abounding with forests have herds of wild 

 swine, these animals, under such circumstances, 

 being always ready to quit domestication. I remem- 

 ber, very many years ago, two young boars retiring, 

 on French leave, to an extensive wood, then the 

 property of Mrs. Eldred, between Colchester and 

 Mersea Island, which became subsequently, during 

 several years, the terror of the neighbourhood. 

 Hunting the wild boar in India is a sport attended 

 with considerable danger, of which there is an 

 amusing account in a late number of the Sporting 

 Magazine. 



CONVENIENCES FOR SWINE. 



ROOM and VENTILATION are objects of the great- 

 est import, where numbers are kept, and dry lodg- 

 ing, without which essentials, success must not be 

 expected. Nor are swine, in whatever state, proof 

 against excessive cold, for I have known instances 

 of their being frozen to death in their stye, and 

 have always remarked that severe weather materi- 

 ally checks their thriving, unless they be sufficiently 

 defended from the chilling effects of the air. 



The STY, situated upon a dry foundation, as well 

 as sheltered above, should be paved at bottom, to 

 the end that it may be kept clean and dry, the ope- 

 ration necessary for which should be daily per- 

 formed, for although pigs will wallow in the mire, 

 they are yet more thrifty in clean lodgings. As 

 swine confined usually employ their leisure time in 

 demolishing, with their teeth, the wood-work within 

 their reach, the modern cast-iron TROUGHS are pro- 



