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the parlor. There seems to be a natural element for the hog. 

 My experience is this, that if a hog is injured in any way and 

 you give him a good mud hole to wallow in he is all right. If 

 he gets a cut or a bruise and you let him get into a mud hole 

 and throw him a cob of corn once in a while he will come out 

 all right. I have seen a hog that had jumped through a wire 

 fence and been so badly cut that the entrails were almost out, 

 but there was a mud hole near by and that hog instinctively 

 made for the mud hole and remained in it six weeks. He came 

 out finally all right. Of course we had to feed him." 



Mr. Halleck: "I believe when a hog is sick he knows what 

 he wants, whether he wants to lie in the sun or on the grass or 

 in the mud. My best remedy for a hog, no matter what is the mat- 

 ter with him, is to give him a mud hole, and if there is none about 

 I make one. I dig a little hole in the ground and put two or 

 three buckets of water in and let him nose around and he will 

 do the rest of it, and I don't believe he is such a fool as to stay 

 in a mud hole when he is sick unless it is good for him. I never 

 had a sick hog in my life that was not helped by a mud hole if 

 there was an opportunity to turn him out." 



Mr. Lamb: " The virtue in the mud hole to the hog is noth- 

 ing more than anything else that will take the fever out. If the 

 hog has a sore and you put wet clay on it it will take the in- 

 flamation out, and I don't think there is anything better. But 

 if they can get the coolness and . moisture to take out the fever 

 in any way, that is what they are after. When I came to Illi- 

 nois I raised a great many hogs; I went down in a slough and 

 took scoops and made a regular wallowing place and the hogs 

 would go down there in the morning in hot weather and lie 

 nearly all day and be covered with mud all over them, and I 

 thought it was bad practice. I dfd not think the hogs did as 

 well as they ought to. I took them away from there and fixed 

 a place in my tank where I always leave enough water in un- 

 derneath so the hogs can get into it to drink if they want to, 

 and I am satisfied my hogs have done better. I think a hog 

 will go into a mud hole in hot weather and stay too long at a time. 



