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INDEX. 



Sea-hog, the, 15. 



Sense of smell. See Smell." 



Sharon Turner on swine, 30. 



Shropshire pigs, 83. 



Skin, diseases of, 136. 



Skull of the pig, 104. 



Slut, training of a sow called, 35. 



Slaughter house at Rome, 211. 



Smell, exquisite, of the hog, 35, 42, 

 45, 48, 105. 



Smokehouse, for curing bacon, 216. 



Snout of the pig, 104 



Snuffles, the, 116. 



Social pigs, 40. * 



Soiling swine, 187. 



Sow, a Berkshire, 86 ; best time for 

 farrowing, 160 ; choice. of, for breed- 

 ing, 150 ; devouring her young ac- 

 counted for, 42 ; English on the 

 quality and price of, 31 ; fertility of 

 159 ; pregnancy of, 160 ; rules re- 

 specting farrowing, 160 , trained to 

 hunt, 35. 



Spain, wild boars in, 54. 



Spaying of sows, 145, 146. 



Spinal cord, disease of, 109. 



Spleen, the, 131; absorption of, 131; 

 rupture of, 131. 



Splenitis, 131. 



Sporting pig, 35. 



Starch manufactories, residue of, food 

 for swine, 192. 



Stomach, the, 127. 



Strangles, 119. 



Sty, how to be constructed, 197. 



Sucking pigs, 206 ; how to be fed, 206 ; 

 when to be killed, 207. 



Suckling, treatment of sows while, 

 166 ; the young while, 166. 



Suffolk pigs, 81. 



Sumatra, the babiroussa found in, 14. 



Sus, varieties included under the name 

 of, 11, 12. 



Sussex pigs, 87. 



Sweden, wild boars in, 54. 



Swine. See " Hog." 



Swineherds, outcasts from society, 29 ; 

 three powerful, in Great Britain, 29 ; 

 in Germany, 32. 



Swineherd, the, of Ulysses, 30. 



T. 



Talented pigs, 37, 38. 

 Taming wild boars, 40, 57. 



Teachableness of swine, 35, 39, 40. 



Technical terms for the boar, 50. 



Teeth of the hog, 106. 



Tetanus, 112; a consequence of ca* 

 tration, 146. 



Thorax, the, 120. 



Thornton, Col., account of a sow be- 

 longing to, 36. 



Toby, a pet pig, account of, 40. 



Toomer, Messrs., a sow trained by, 35. 



Tractability of swine, 35, 39. 



Training swine, 35, 36, 38. 



Trollope, Mrs., on swine in America,60. 



Trough, the, how to be kept, 199 ; de- 

 scription of, 199, 200. 



Truffles, hunted for by pigs, 45. 106. 



Turnips, not beneficial to pigs, 180, 

 199. 



Twety, William, on hunting, 51. 



U. 



Ulysses and his swineherd, 30 ; boar- 

 hunt of, 49. 

 Usefulness of swine, 34. 



V. 



Valves of the heart, diseased, 121. 



Varro on swine's flesh, 22 ; distinctive 

 marks of a good boar, 151. 



Vegetable diet of swine, very select, 

 43 ; feeding pigs on, 180. 



Ventilation required in piggeries, 108. 



Vesical calculi, 134. 



Veterinary surgeons should not be dis- 

 pensed with, 102. 



W. 



Wallachian pigs, 68. 

 Warmth required by swine, 198. 

 Wart-hog, the, 16. 

 Wash, pigs fed on, 179. 

 Washing swine, 202. 

 Water-hog, the, 15. 



Weather indicated by hogs, 42. 

 Western, Lord, his Essex pig, 80. 

 Westphalian hams, 52 ; how cured, 217 j 



pigs, 68. 



Whey, hogs fed on, 179. 

 Wild boar, cut of a, 46 ; hunting, 48 : 



49, 50 ; of Ardennes, 52 ; park of 



Emperor of Austria, 53. 



