MODERN FEEDING OF PIGS. 
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Fig. VI. 
Skull of a full grown sow of the Small Yorkshire breed. (After Rhode). 
To express this idea in figures, see following table: 
Head. 
Basilar 
Length. 
Zygomatic 
Breadth. 
Greatest 
Heighth. 
Fig. Y . 
13^ inches. 
inches. 
inches. 
Head similar to 
6 f inches. 
Fig. VI. In posses¬ 
sion of writer. 
9f inches. 
65 inches. 
The pig has, perhaps, the most elastic and changeable or¬ 
ganization of any of our domestic animals. It also has the 
advantage of being able to digest all kinds of food as an om¬ 
nivorous animal, and last, though not least, it multiplies more 
rapidly than any domestic animal, even the sheep. Therefore 
it has been at all times regarded, and properly, too, as the an¬ 
imal par excellence for experiments in breeding, and the pig 
is the best example of what men have accomplished in the 
production of animals. 
Drawing, now, the conclusions from the above examina¬ 
tions, I shall summarize them in the following theses: 
