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been advised to try feeding their stock upon sugar, 

 which is both cheap and fattening. This would be 

 good hearing for many horses, which like nothing 

 so well as lump-sugar ; but neither cows nor pigs seem 

 to be particularly fond of sweetstuff in this form, 

 though the latter are very partial to raw, crushed sugar- 

 cane. But the pig, though greedy and omnivorous 

 when kept in a sty, and a very foul feeder on the New 

 Zealand runs, is most particular in its choice of food 

 when running wild in English woods. Its special 

 dainties are underground roots and tubers, and it is 

 the only animal, except man, which appreciates and 

 seeks for the truffle. For all these underground 

 delicacies its scent is exquisitely keen. If by any mis- 

 hap a pig enters a garden at the time when bulbs are 

 planted, it will plough up a row of snowdrops or crocus- 

 roots, following the line as readily as if they lay 

 exposed to the surface. On the other hand, pigs seem 

 to have discovered that raw potatoes are unwholesome. 

 Cooked potatoes are devoured greedily ; but the raw 

 tuber is as a rule rejected, unless the animal is very 

 hungry, and though pigs will sometimes root among 

 the potato-mounds, it is in search of other food than 

 potatoes. Stud-grooms have decided that carrots are 

 the favourite dainty of the horse, and accordingly it has 

 become part, in many stables, of the under-groom's 

 duty to slice carrots and arrange them on a plate ready 



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