52'± MANUAL OF FARM ANIMALS 



point of an iron wedge in one of the notches, and tap the tusk 

 with a hammer, and it will break squarely off. The tusk may 

 then be filed off rounding. 



CHICKEN-EATING SWINE 



While not a disease, chicken eating is a vicious habit often 

 contracted by swine kept near chicken yards. The habit 

 once acquired is often difficult to overcome. A very good device 

 to prevent the hogs from catching the fowls is a common four- 

 inch ring hung before the hog's snout. This may be held in 

 place with the ordinary hog-ring placed around the four-inch 

 ring and into the nose, as when ringing to prevent rooting. 

 Th&s the large ring hangs in front of the hog's snout and pushes 

 the chicken away as the hog reaches for it. 



