4 - Lumut Laut. Ulva,tactuca, a. green thin sea-weed abundant 
on rocks and old logs in thfe harbour and round our coasts. This is 
collected by Chinese and Malays at low tide with the aid of a stick on 
the end of which is a shc/rt transverse piece of wood, forming a kind 
of wooden hoe or scrape'r, 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. Kiambang. 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 steins, 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 the waste rice and uneaten bits 
and is known as “Nasi busuk.” The pig breeder pays three or four 
dollars a month for this stuff 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 pigs 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 fo 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 
