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when so piled. It is about on a par with the whipping and dogging of 
cattie about a yard at night to get up warmth. A more sensible and 
cheaper plan would be to provide comfortable quarters, where they 
might lie warm, and separate them into gangs, according to age and 
etrength. Thus with plenty of fat next the skin, aud good liberal feeding, 
.very little difficulty will be experienced, in keeping them growing steadily, 
dmtil of a sufficient age for the slaughter pen. 
Absolute Cleanliness lfeoessary. 
Of all farm animals hogs especially must have plenty of water. It 
should also be pure. Swine breeders can not too soon disabuse them- 
selves of the idea that swine are dirty, or filthy feeders, or that they 
naturally incline to wallow in the mud. There are no farm animals ricer 
in the fqod* they eat than swine if allowed to be. It is true, they ira 
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omnivorous feeders. So is man. Like man, although they eat fish, flesh, 
fowl, vegetables, roots, and grain, they like it fresh. If forced by hunger 
they will cat disgusting substances, so again will man. The elephant, 
the rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and tapir, seek the water to clean and cool 
themselves in Summer, liko all pachydermatous animals. The wild men 
like swine will cover themselves with mud to ward off the attacks of biting 
and stinging insects. In their wild state the nearest tree furnishes to 
ewine the means of rubbing it off when dry, and the rubbing post fur- 
nishes them the means of cleaning their skins in a state of domesticity- 
