CAKE OF HOGS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2523, 10 May 1882, Page 4

CAKE OF HOGS.

The hog excels all the larger animals upon the farm in the matter of space occupied in his shelter, and the relative cheapness with which this can ba put up and maintained. No other animal can be made comfortable with so small an outlay of cash. None come so near being self-tenders, depositing their filth remote from their neat if given a fair opportunity to do this, making their own bed it allowed access to the material; and it is always the oise, that nohog is ever seen to carry wet or even damp straw to his bed, if ho hag access to that which is dry. During the winter season feed should be given, not less than three times a day, and four or five times would bo better. This should be the rule, as the stomach of the hog is of moderate capooity, and should not bo overtaxed by being distended. It should be the rule, also, for the purpose of inviting the hog to leave his nest at intervals that his dampened surface may dry off, thot ha may take needed exercise, and, at the same time, allow his nest to part with some of its moisture. The feeding-place should be some distance removed from the restingplace. This insures the deposit of droppings away from either, as the hog is cleanly to a degree beyond what he has credit for, unless, through our own slipshod inconsiderate practice, we force him to be otherwise. This we do when we confine him to a small pen, compelling him to sleep, with perhaps half a dozen of his fellows, upon one half of a ten-foot square space, using the other half as a place for his droppings, and for feeding also. Open the door, if his prison cell has one, and see if he will soil bis eating or sleeping place with his own refuse. The trial will show that he will not do this.