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upon the amount of individual attention which 

 the workers in the area are prepared to give. 



The pig is the natural dependent of the 

 dairy, for he uses up the spare milk ; but he 

 also depends upon arable land, for he thrives 

 upon potatoes. The pig, therefore, takes his 

 place with all propriety in a national scheme. 

 But he takes this place with even more comfort 

 and security in a local valley scheme, because 

 one of the greatest dangers to the industry 

 is swine fever, and the risk of this is much 

 more imminent when pigs are purchased in 

 a market instead of being bred at home. 

 The little space for cereals, too, is important, 

 since cleanliness is of immense value, and 

 towards this clean bedding has the chief 

 influence. 



The breeding of pigs has been regularised 

 to a small extent by the foundation in certain 

 districts of bacon factories which aim at a 

 definite size or weight for their purpose. 

 But consider the probabilities all round for 

 reasonable prices for pigs where the grower 

 has to depend upon his own skill and resources 

 in all the preliminaries and then has to face 



