When, after the birth of the last her litter of six,* 

 little ones were put to the udders of the mother, and b 

 gan to draw their natural food, at that moment the sp 

 was broken, and the measureless love of the mother w 

 developed — at flowed with her milk. Though the procei 

 of putting the little pigs occupied scarcely a minute, y 

 that short interval sufficed for the great change, the bird 

 of an affection that was to be .boundless and untiring s| 

 long as her little one needed the mother's care, for upoi 

 one of her young uttering a cry as I placed it beside heij 

 she turned on me with a roar of anxiety and anger thai 

 sent me with a leap to the other end of the enclosure] 

 The development of hoggishness and spite in the youn 

 pigs immediately after birth, was both surprising an(] 

 amusing ; they would contend fiercely with each other fo 

 food, and when obtained would defend themselves froii 

 their fellows by moving their hinder parts towards th 

 quarter from which an intruder approached. 



Marblehead, Mass. JAMES J. H. GREGORY. 



[For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.] 



REMEDIES FOR CRIB-BITING, 



