PIG PASTURE.
[Sydney “ Town and Country.”]
Tho difficulty in admitting pigs to natural grass turf is their natural propensity to uplift it in search of roots and earthy matter. This may in some measure be remedied by a piece of wire inserted in the nose, and joined in the form of a ring. This operation is best performed on the young sows before they are admitted to the boar. A special danger attend* this operation on sows in furrow, resulting in what is termed "dancers ” in the offspring, which shake as if paralysed. An advantage in allowing young pig* to run out on turf away from tho nursing dam is that they early acquire the habit of eating. In addition to this, tho limbs are strengthened, and the animal assumes a straighter and better form. Young pigs too much cooped up, it allowed to eat out of high troughs, grow arched in tho back. My young Berkshires under six weeks old have ample range of a large paddock. They thrive and dp well, returning to the pen with good appetites to enjoy their meals of sharps and bran made into paste and served in a shallow receiver. A portion of small coal or cinder, should always form part of the bill of faro in the piggery.— Pbaotick,
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2183, 23 February 1881, Page 4
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217PIG PASTURE. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2183, 23 February 1881, Page 4
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