LET THE PIGS BATH THEMSELVES
It is the pig's nature to wallow and it may be taken for granted that so sensible an animal knows what is good for it. In hot weather pigs will take a mud bath, and they will wallow in any filth that they can find. One may, therefore, just as well make them happy 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 would-be admirer.
Mud. pure and simple, will brush off when you want your pigs to look their host, and with very Httl* trouble you ran make them presentable, but mud which contains manure and yard drainage sticks like grease, and nothing short of thorough washing will get rid of it. Let 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, you 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 of it around fho pool.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 24 March 1930, Page 7
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