LET THE PIGS BATH THEMSELVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 66, 19 March 1930, Page 23

LET THE PIGS BATH THEMSELVES.

5. Keep the grasses in a pasture from tunning to seed,, even if the mower has to be used.

It is the pig's nature to wallow and it may be taken for granted that ?o sensible an animal knows what is gOod for it. In hot weather pigs will take any and every opportunity for having a mud bath, and they will callow >1 any filth that they can find. One may, therefore, just as well make them hap' r ? and keep them fairly respectable by providing a decent mud bath instead of leaving them to find it for themselves under unsuitable conditions. Just ordinary mud does not make a pig a filthy and disgusting creature, such as one is ashamed to present to any woi;'dbe admirer.

Mud, pure and simple, will brush ofl when you want your pigs to look tbe:r best, and with very little trouble you can make them presentable, but mud which contains manure and yard draiuage sticks like grease, and nothing short of thorough washing will get rid of iLet your pigs, then, have their mud bath under decent conditions, and they will be all the better for it. If the surroundings are reasonably clean, yoj need do nothing more than provide a shallow cemented or clay-lined basin filled with water.

The pigs will see about the mud all right, for there will soon be plenty oi it around the pool.