REARING AND FEEDING OF ANIMALS. 



that they be kept warm and clean. They should be well lit- 

 tered, and as much substantial food and drink as they require 

 should be administered to them at regular intervals or periods. 

 They should be frequently curried; and in every stye or yard 

 in which pigs are kept, there should be erected a rubbing-post, 

 the advantages of which are too apparent to need any notice. 



When rearing swine a small quantity of nutritious food 

 given with lucern, clover, tares, &c. is sufficient; but when 

 put up to fatten, a constant supply of the most wholesome and 

 nutritious food should be provided. 



The hog, if we regard the multitudes of mankind who feed 

 upon its flesh, occupies, it will be seen, an important place in 

 the domestic economy of all civilized countries. His flesh is 

 perfectly nutritive, and, from its ready reception of salt, it is 

 better fitted for preservation than that of any other animal it 

 is therefore largely used for sea voyages, for which purpose it 

 is eminently adapted. It forms a very large portion of the 

 animal food consumed by the inhabitants of Europe; and from 

 the great facility with which it may be raised by the humble 

 cottager as well as the breeder on the larger scale, it has very 

 aptly been styled the poor man's stock. He is, beyond every 

 other animal, quickly multiplied, reared, and brought to the 

 required maturity; and it is a great error for a fanner, how- 

 ever extended his concerns may be, to disregard this branch 

 of farm stock it is to him a source of household economy and 

 comfort. He can raise the most delicate pork for use at all 

 times, and with the greatest facility; and will always derive a 

 sufficient profit by the sale of the remainder to repay him in 

 the most ample manner for his feeding, and induce him to give 

 attention to this branch of economy. 



DISEASES INCIDENT TO SWINE. 



Swine are liable to but few diseases; but inasmuch as they 

 are very bad and unruly patients, it is exceedingly difficult to 

 treat them in a proper manner. Fortunately, however, a sys- 

 tem of proper management, a regular supply of wholesome 

 and nutritious food, with a due regard to cleanliness, will in 

 general ward off all disease; and the necessity of attending 

 with the greatest degree of strictness to these matters cannot 

 be too forcibly impressed upon the mind of every farmer. 



The. garget is an inflammatory affection of the udder; the 

 lacteal ducts, by which the milk is conveyed, being obstructed 

 by an accumulation of coagulated milk; and as young pigs will 

 not suck when the milk of the dam becomes vitiated, the cor- 

 rupted milk must without delay be expressed gently by the 

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