INTRODUCTION. 
HEALTH OF THE PIG. 
Edmund Park says: “If we had a perfect 
knowledge of the laws of life and could apply this 
knowledge in a perfect system of hygienic rules, 
disease would be impossible. Hygiene is the art 
of preserving health. It aims at rendering growth 
more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, 
death more remote.” So beautiful and compre- 
hensive is this definition that it ought to be often 
repeated. 7 
In dealing with this subject of health there are 
several things to be taken into consideration; this 
I will do as briefly as possible. First, we should 
follow nature’s steps as closely as practicable, and 
should consider the condition of the pig in its nat- 
ural haunts, and deprive it of as few of them as 
possible. The pig is an omnivorous animal and 
eats all. It is destined by nature to uproot plants 
and grope for food among the dropped acorns and 
other fruits of the forest, and Youatt says: “In 
point of fact the snout of the pig is its spade with 
which it roots in the ground for roots and earth 
