SECTION rv, 
DISEASES OF SWINE. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The most erroneous opinions prevailed for a long time re¬ 
specting the nature of swine, as also their mode of treat¬ 
ment. It was fancied that this animal would thrive equally 
well, whether kept clean or dirty, as it was supposed its 
natural habits were to wallow in the dirt and mire. Modern 
experience, however, has proved these fancies to be most in¬ 
correct, and it is well known that pigs always prefer a clean 
sty and clean litter to those that are dirty; and it is an 
equally well-ascertained fact, and they never thrive when 
these important points are neglected. 
If it is possible, swine-sties should be constructed in 
localities through which a running stream passes, and their 
sleeping-houses on a sloping bank, so that they may be dry 
and comfortable for the animals, and the inclined plane will 
carry off any urine from the enclosure appropriated to them. 
Those who keep a number of pigs should have separate sties 
for the young and the old, as well as for the accommodation 
of those which are in pig ; and where they should be kept 
until they farrow. 
