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Everyone will have read in the home papers about the large 
importations of Chinese pig carcases to England. At first there 
seemed to be some opposition to this trade but now it appears that 
a good business is being done in this line. 
It would he quite possible, one would think, for the Malay Penin- 
sula with its large number of pig-rearers to get a corner of the 
business if it were worked up, and the Chinese taught and encour- 
aged to grow sound pork for the home-market as well as for tbeir 
own use. 
Mr. Douglas lays great stress on the correct feeding of pigs, the 
value of the meat depending much on the kind of food supplied. The 
feeding recommended for the English pig would not be possible here. 
Thus one gallon of separated milk, three pounds of potatoes and 
four pounds of barley meal is stated to be a very common ration for 
growing pig, and one which seems to pay well. Milk indeed seems 
to be agreed upon by all breeders as an important item in the diet of 
the pig. The feeding of the Chinese pig is based on utterly different 
lines, the most striking thing being the great difference due to the 
large amount of green vegetable food used. 
The following notes on pig culture in Singapore may be inter- 
esting to many. 
The pigs are kept in shaded styes with a plank or round wood 
flooring beneath which is a cement tank for receiving the excreta, 
which are used as a valuable manure for the vegetable garden. 
The roof of the sty is usually made of attaps, the sides of a fence 
of horizontal poles to keep the animals in. This arrangement though 
not perhaps quite as good as the styes used by high class breeders in 
Europe is a great deal better than many pig-styes in the country 
villages in England where the excreta are left on a brick floor in 
actual contact with the animals. 
The pigs are fed thrice a day, on a mixture of farinaceous foods 
and green stuff all boiled together in a large iron cauldron or “ kwali.” 
The following are the chief vegetables used : 
1. Kangkong: Ipomoea Squaiica Forak. an aquatic convolvulus 
with white flowers, cultivated extensively as a spinage for human 
consumption and an excellent and rapid growing vegetable. 
2 . Sweet potatoes. Ipomea Batatas, the leaves of this well known 
vegetable. 
3- Keladi Babi. Colocasia Antiquorum L. This aroid, an intro- 
duction probably from Polynesia, is only used here for pig feeding. 
In other places the tubers are extensively used for human food, but 
in the Straits it is not favoured to any extent though the shoots and 
rhizomes are eaten to a small extent. The plant grows abundantly 
in ponds and swampy low lying places and is very prolific. Indeed 
it is a troublesome weed to exterminate in many spots. 
