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and traders settle down to steady work. 

 There are no figures available for hogs, which, 

 the same as we have seen in Venezuela, are 

 allowed to run wild, going around village and 

 town, scavenging for food like pariah dogs. 

 Even then they pay, but if compounded at 

 night and fed up, their flesh is greatly improved 

 at very little cost, and whilst their manure 

 can be utilized, the value of their carcases is 

 more than doubled both in quantity and quality, 

 i.e., in weight and value. Pig-raising, as done 

 in England with its dairy-fed pork, is unknown 

 in Central America, but that is no reason why 

 a start should not be made. When you are told, 

 as the writer was at Carupano, in Venezuela, 

 that no wise woman leaves very young babies in 

 the cradles unguarded lest the pigs should 

 " injure " them, one can easily realize what 

 these round-backed, tusked, decidedly savage 

 animals can and do eat, when allowed to 

 scavenge around for a living like wild animals ; 

 yet these same pigs, if fenced in and well fed, 

 improve in shape, weight and manners in an 

 incredibly short time. 



