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foremost temporary molars are in the upper and lower 

 jaws. At the age of three months, intermediary incisors 

 appear above the gums. At the sixth month, the " wolf 

 teeth" appear, and at the same age the third permanent 

 molars. At the ninth month, their permanent corner 

 incisors should be visible, permanent tusks, and second 

 permanent molars. At the twelfth month the permanent 

 nippers should be in view. With the twelfth and 

 thirteenth month the three temporary molars shed, and 

 their permanent substitutes, which at fifteen months of 

 age will have fully appeared, are cutting through the 

 gams. With the eighteenth month the permanent 

 intermediary incisors and the hindmost permanent molars 

 should make their appearance, and with the twenty-first 

 month should be fully developed. Then we have a full 

 mouthed pig. 



Pen and Paddock Feeding. Pen feeding until the 

 fattening time is reached is not profitable with pigs in 

 Australian practice. The animals require much attention 

 when penned ; they fret and suffer in flesh when they are 

 not attended to. They do better in paddocks, on a piece 

 of good soil, with a stretch of swamp in it, irom the time 

 of weaning until they are penned for fattening. They 

 may be fed in paddocks, but not at regular times. A 

 whistle or horn should call them, and they should get 

 nothing without calling ; then they do not "loaf" around 

 waiting for the slop-pail, but occupy their time rooting 

 and grazing as well-ordered pigs ought to do. When 

 there are shelters in the paddock for warmth, and in case 

 of storm, pigs are profitable stock and do not exact so much 

 attendance. 



Points in Feeding. Pigs allowed to ream at will over 

 good grass, lucerne or other green feed, and which got all 

 the milk and grain they would eat, made the most rapid 

 growth, and made the best use of what they ate. Those 

 fed on grass, with milk and maize, on a small patch made 

 more rapid growth than those fed on grain alone, and 

 apparently made a slightly better use of the food eaten. 

 Green grass appears to be of the greatest value as an 

 appetiser. Pigs kept on grass alone made but slow growth 



