PIG RAISING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1300, 1 December 1911, Page 10

PIG RAISING.

CHIKF. veti;rln-awan'3 ADVICE. Tho Chief Veterinarian- (Mr. = C. i J. Roakes) gives tho following advice in reiorenco to pig raising, .in his annual rcport:- _ ■'~_" 'In connection with, tho keeping of-pigs on dairy, farui* there is TOoni for very! great improvement in thy methods generally adopted. Pigs -are too 'often- badly housed under- insanitary conditions in iniproporly. built' sties. In tho, feeding- of pigs sufficient judgmeit is not .exercised in finishing them 'of?• before thev are sold for slaughter. Defter carcasses", and, bettei; pork for bacon would he produced if the animals wore given a certain quantityof, good dry fowl daily, during tho : 'lnst month before slaughter, instead of, as is' often the case, being kept practically ni)on separated mil'; or whey alono righ't up to the time that they .are sold. In the past there has )«en too much of a tendency upon tin. part of dairy farmers in particular to look upon'pigs as wing simply consi|mcrs of Inr-m-mliints, nnil undeserving of any special attention. Tliij niM.'ik'fii idea should he absolutely diwurded. No nniuml gives a better return for proper core and attention and proper feeding than does the. pig. ' "In (lie inspection of pigs on slaughter a considerable proportion are found lo iinvo snfi'ored from attacks of pleurisy (not tubercular), which hnvo resulted in permanent adhesions being produced between tho pleural covering of the lung 3 and that of the chest-wall. This prevnlenixi of plourisyi is no doubt tho result of thn improper conditions undeT which (ho pif>s. especially when young, have had to exist, and. worn these, conditions coiisidor.ihiy improved, this trouble wotild bo far las prevalent than is tho case^'.