INTRODUCTION. 



HEALTH OF THE PIG. 



Edmund Park says: "If we had a perfect 

 knowledge of the laws of life and could apply this 

 knowledge in a perfect system of hygienic rules, 

 disease would be impossible. Hygiene is the art 

 of preserving health. It aims at rendering growth 

 more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, 

 death more remote." So beautiful and compre- 

 hensive is this definition that it ought to be often 

 repeated. 



In dealing with this subject of health there are 

 several things to be taken into consideration ; this 

 I will do as briefly as possible. First, we should 

 follow nature's steps as closely as practicable, and 

 should consider the condition of the pig in its nat- 

 ural haunts, and deprive it of as few of them as 

 possible. The pig is an omnivorous animal and 

 eats all. It is destined by nature to uproot plants 

 and grope for food among the dropped acorns and 

 other fruits of the forest, and Youatt says: "In 

 point of fact the snout of the pig is its spade with 

 w hich it roots in the ground for roots and earth 



