WASHING PIGS
A PROFITABLE PRACTICE How many pig farmers ever wash their pigs? asks an English agricultural writer. I am not thinking of show pigs, or even of pedigree pigs, but of common or garden commercial animals we are feeding for the butcher or factory. Yet it pays, and pays well, especially in the hot summer weather. If anyone wants to try the experiment, it is very easy to do it providing they have a weighing machine. If four pigs of a given litter and of about the same weight are taken at, say, four months old, and two of them are washed twice a week, but otherwise are treated and fed exactly the same as the other two, I will guarantee that the washed pigs will have increased in weight more than the unwashed ones.
Years ago, after I had proved this, I built a dip 2ft wide by 12ft long, sloping at each end to 4ft deep in the middle. It makes an excellent pig wash—we give them a good scrub at one end with soft soap and push them headlong in to swim to the other end.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 862, 4 January 1930, Page 23
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190WASHING PIGS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 862, 4 January 1930, Page 23
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