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4- Lumut Laut. Ulva Lactuca, a "reen thin sea-wced abundant 

 on rocks and old logs in the harbour and round our coasts. This is 

 collected bv Chinese and Malays at low tide with the aid of a stick on 

 the end of which is a short transverse piece of wood, forming a kind 

 of wooden hoe or scraper. With this the sea-weed is scraped together 

 and put into baskets. It is then spread in the sun to dry for three 

 days after which it is bundled up and sold at a dollar and a half a 

 picul. 



5. The water hyacinth, Eichornia crassipes. This ornamental 

 aquatic was first introduced for the beauty of its flowers. The Chinese 

 cultivated it for this purpose and hawked bunches of flowers in the 

 streets, lately they have taken to use the leaves and stalks for feeding 

 pigs and say it is excellent for them. 



6. Kiambaiig. Pistia Stratiotes, often known as the water let- 

 tuce. This floating plant is cultivated on a large scale, in small 

 ponds, reproducing itself from its sideshoots and has always been a 

 popular pig food. 



7. Banana stems, Batang Pisang. The stems of bananas after the 

 fruit is taken are chopped up and added to the mixture. All 

 these vegetables are chopped up fairly finely mixed together and put 

 into the cauldron to boil. To them are added refuse from the sago, 

 and tapioca factories, and rice refuse. The latter is obtained from 

 the eating-houses, and consists of tlie waste rice and uneaten bits 

 and is known as "Nasi busuk." The pig breeder pays three or four 

 dollars a month for this stufl" which is kept for them, and amounts to 

 about two fair sized tubs a day. 



The sago and tapioca refuse is rich in starch as owing to the 

 often clumsy methods of washing the pith, only a portion of the starch 

 is washed out and retained. The refuse of sago of which there is 

 usually a large proportion left during the manufacture of the 

 starch from the tree fetches a good price for pig food, and is even oc- 

 casionally as valuable as the starch itself Deddak is rice dust chiefly 

 imported from Bangkok, as refuse from the rice mills. It is sold at 

 2 dollars a picul, and used also for feeding cattle and poultry. These 

 farinaceous foods are mixed with the boiling vegetables and when 

 well boiled the pig man allows the food to cool and feeds it to the 

 pigs. The pig^ are washed twice a day by pouring water over them, 

 which water runs into the tank below and helps to clean the wood- 

 work of the sty. 



Breeding. 



The breeding boars are kept by certain men who lead them about 

 from village to village for serving the sows, one man keeps one or 

 two boars for use, and charges from 15 to 50 cents for each service. 

 Six months after producing a litter the boar is left with the sow for 

 about an hour and then another sow is substituted. The boar is not 

 allowed to serve more than seven times in a day. The sow breeds 

 twice a year and the litter suck for a month. From eight to fourteen 



