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INDEX. 



C. 



Caesarian operation performed on a 

 sow, 153. 



Cape, the, the phaco-choeres in, 15. 



Capibara, the, 15. 



Carrots, feeding swiie on, 180, 181. 



Castrated animals, disposed to obesity, 

 178. 



Castration of pigs, modes of, 145. 



Catching pigs, 147. 



Cattle shows, benefits and abases of, 

 177. 



Census of the increase of pigs by breed- 

 ing, 170. 



Chanting to pigs, 203. 



Character, developing a pig's, 108. 



Charles!., reintroduction of -wild boars 

 by, 51, 87. 



Cheshire pigs, 83. -,-, <u . , 



Chestnuts, swine fed on, 182. 



Chest of the pig, 120. 



Chinese swine, 88,99 ; liable to become 

 over fat, 178. 



Chinese, the, and their pigs, analogy 

 between, 64. 



Choice of boar and sow for breeding, 

 150, : 



Christmas dish, the boar's bead a, 51. 



Cinders given to pigs, 189. ..J^ 



Cleanliness of swine, 41, 189. 



Clover, feeding pigs on, 187. 



Cochon d'Inde. See " Guinea Pig." 



Co3cum, the, 128. 



Coleshill pigs, 179. 



Colic, 129. 



Colon, the, 128. 



Combing pigs, 202. 



Copts, the, rear no pigs, 27. 



Cornish pigs, 85. 



Crete, hogs sacred in, 23. 



Crops, number of swine to be propor- 

 tioned to the farmer's, 171. 



Crosses, judicious, improve the breed, 

 153. 



Curing bacon, 213. 



Cuvier, Baron, his definition of "Hog," 

 11 ; on . the babiroussa, 14 ; on 

 the capibara, 15; on the peccary, 

 13. 



D. 



Dairy refuse for pigs, 179, 192. 

 Dead pig. preparing the, 212. 



Definition, zoological, of the pig, IL 



Democrates' prescription for measles, 

 143. 



Derbyshire pigs, 79. 



Derivation of term " Hog," 15. 



Desquamation of the skin, 143. 



Diarrhoea, 129. 



Dickens, Charles, on American pigs, 

 59, 60. 



Dieskau, M. de, taming boars, 40. 



Diseased valves of the heart, 121. 



Diseases of swine, described, 102; little 

 notice paid hitherto to, 102 ; medi- 

 cines used for, 140, 223. 



Diseases of the skin, 136. 



Distilleries, pigs fed on refuse of, 179 

 197. 



Docility of swine, 35, 37, 40. 



Drenching pigs, 148. 



Duodenum, the, 128. 



E. 



Early domestication of swine in Eng- 

 land, 31. 



Early history of swine, 30. 

 Emperor of Austria's wild boar park. 



Empirics, animals not to be intrusted 

 to, 101. 



England, breeds of swine in, 77 ; re- 

 cords respecting keeping swine in, 

 30. 



, English swine introduced into France, 

 72. 



Enteritis, 129. iV . 



Epidemics among swine, 123. 



Epilepsy, 110. 



Epitaph on a prize pig, 178. 



Erysipelas, gangrenous, 137. 



Extinction of wild boars in Great Bri 

 tain, 50. 



F. 



Farrowing, best time for, 156 ; rules 



respecting, 153. 

 Fattening pigs, 33, 177, 184, 186, 188; 



excess of, 179. 



Feeding swine, 33, 176, 177, 188. 

 Filthy habits of swine denied, 41. 

 Fleam, the U8e of, dangerous, 145. 

 Food of swine, 33, 42 ; best kind for 



fattening, 189. 

 Food of wild boars, 47. 



