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the farmer either does not care to eat himself or 

 to give to his stock; the sweeping of the malt 

 house ; the grain left after the brewer has 

 brewed his beer; the "bran and sharps" from 

 the outside coats of the grains of corn, the inside 

 of which the miller makes into flour, all these 

 things the pig will do well upon, and so, by 

 means of the pig the farmer can turn the leav- 

 ings of his farm into money. 



The farmer indeed has to be grateful for that 

 grim effort to lay on flesh in a short space of 

 time, that went on in those far back ages when 

 the pig wandered about in his wild state. And 

 he should also be equally grateful for the fact 

 that all those pigs that could not lay on a 

 sufficiency of flesh in a short space of time were 

 killed by their hungry enemies, or died from 

 starvation during the severe cold of the winter. 



It is well known that a pig by itself will not 

 fatten so readily as two pigs kept together, partly, 

 perhaps, because pigs are naturally sociable 

 animals, and have been accustomed to live to- 

 gether in herds, or numbers, gregarious as the 

 expression is. And animals that have been 

 accustomed to live together in herds will fret 

 when they are alone, and will not do so well as 

 when they have a companion. 



Another reason is that pigs are greedy, selfish 

 animals. If you watch two pigs feeding out of a 



