960 



SWINE AND THEIR DISEASES. 



The custom of feeding 

 almost exclusively ; with 

 corn, a very prevalent 

 custom in the West, is a 

 hygienic mistake. No 

 one article of food, and 

 certainly not corn, con- 

 tains all the elements nec- 

 essary to produce healthy 

 and vigorous animals. Hogs fed on such a diet are predisposed to 

 disease, and fall victims to every prevailing epidemic. 



We cannot emphasize too strongly the necessity of permitting 

 the hog to keep himself clean, which he will certainly do if his sur- 

 roundings make it possible. The hog that seems contented in the 



Pig. 1277. — High-backed Iron Trough for Four Pigs. 



&m %> ^" *** 



Fig. 1278.— French Boar. 



midst of nastiness and filth, is so because he does not know any 

 other condition. As there is no more 1 docile nor tractable animal on 

 a farm than a well-bred pig, so there is no cleaner one than a well- 

 brought-up pig. It follows that the best preventive measures con- 

 sist in removing the causes we have named. If hygienic laws are 

 not violated in the management of swine, we believe there will be 



