270 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 APRIL, 1900: 
thrown in the tubs. Now, when these happen to get in the feeding trough 
the pig, feeling something lumpy naturally makes a dive for it, seizes Ne 
mouth and crushes it, never feeling what it is in its eagerness to secure its ‘A 
share of feed. The result is, it generally gets badly cut, and, its ™® 
becoming sore, is thrown off its feed. wy 
As an instance of the danger, I might mention a case that came une 
notice some time ago. I was called in to look at a pig which could n0 i 
and was consequently running downin flesh as fast as she could. She tes 
sore about the mouth, and I advised the man to have her slaughtered. I 
was done, and when she was opened the carcass was a nasty yellow colonia 
took off her head, and, having split it down the centre to the tongue, I ona 
the tongue and found an ordinary sewing needle with a little sewing % she 
nearly buried in the tongue at the root. I do not for a minute doubt tha att 
got the needle from her feed into her mouth, and with the action of Open one j 
may quite easily and unwittingly happen. I have seen cases where sewing 
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pork will cost a great deal more than that of pigs which are allowed 4 be 
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where pigs can be allowed to roam, lest they should get across th ane 
boundary and get destroyed for trespass. But there are not many farmers pi? 
ave . 
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the use of grain and similar hard food. All pigs should have a shelter, ae ha 
1d be 
fall to one corner, and a cask or tank to catch all liquid, which shou’. 
should be flushed with water twice or thrice a week to keep them sweeh il 
animal can thrive if subjected to extremes of cold and heat, either of wh!¢ ‘ 
cause a waste of the body, otherwise waste of food, adding to the cm 
producing the pork. very farmer and gardener should keep a few pigs ay 10 
up all waste, such as skim milk, waste fruit, and vegetables, It will also P ie 
grow food for them ; for instance, peas, barley, mangolds. Do not keeP ‘ab 
pigs than you have food for, as it will not pay to buy food for them. J+ iq be 
bad plan to keep your pigs half-starved for five or six months; they sboU 
kept in good condition from the time they are born till you kill them. South 
Mr. Mills, speaking at a meeting of the Kammantoo branch of the eats 
Australian Bureau of Agriculture, said :—During the last two or three yi 
pigs have without doubt been the most profitable animals upon. the fat they 
South Australia, and especially so in these southern districts, owing 1 So 
numerous bacon factories which have sprung up in our neighbourhoo4 the 
greatly has the pig industry expanded that at a single fortnight’s fr, ob 
return from the pig branch of the market often amounts to hundre®® 5 
pounds, and there seems to be no reason why this business should collaps?# west 
it will be wise for those who raise pigs to study how to feed them at the !° 
