220 FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT 
Exercise.—Probably nothing is more essential to the health 
and vigor of an animal than exercise. Jn 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 und 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,— 
namely, the tusks must be broken off and a eool dav 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 
