214 FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT 



Exercise. Probably nothing is more essential to the health 

 and vigor of an animal than exercise. In summer it is usually 

 a comparatively simple matter to provide exercise in a paddock 

 or pasture lot, but in winter it is rather more difficult to 

 furnish this. A roomy pen should be. provided, with a 

 sheltered outside yard. 



When practicable, it is well to feed the boar out-doors at 

 some distance from his sleeping quarters, thus compelling him 

 to take exercise in walking back and forth between his pen and 

 the feeding place. Icy ground is the greatest drawback to this 

 method, but this can be overcome by littering the walk with 

 some strawy horse manure. Sometimes the boar can be fed in a 

 well-littered barnyard, which makes a very good arrangement 

 when practicable. 



When several boars are kept, it is difficult to provide 

 separate runs for each boar, and it simplifies matters if they 

 are taught to run together. The tusks should be removed 

 and a cool day should be selected for turning them together 

 for the first time. It takes a very short time, as a rule, to 

 settle the question of supremacy, and when once settled no 

 further disputes arise. The writer has had considerable ex- 

 perience with this method, and has never known bad results 

 to follow. The two mentioned conditions are necessary, 

 pamely, the tusks must be broken off and a cool day selected 

 for the tournament which decides. After this first struggle has 

 taken place, the boars will live together quite as peaceably as 

 sows. 



Removing Tusks. Armed with long, sharp tusks, the boar 

 is capable of inflicting serious injury upon man or beast, 

 should he take the notion, but, deprived of his tusks, he becomes 



