PIGS IN CLOVER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 December 1936, Page 3

PIGS IN CLOVER

AESTHETIC CHAPTER IN CULTURE (By Air Mail—Prom Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 19th December. During a recent week-end in the wilds of Wiltshire, just now a ravishing picture of rich autumn glory, I saw a novel pig farm. This is being run by a New Zealand farmer, who has settled in this country, and who claims that, properly managed, the pig is by no means the rather odoriferous and filthy animal we usually recognise him to be. He is running his piggery on quite novel lines so far as Wiltshire is concerned, and they reckon they know something about pigs in that county. He has built clean "kennels” for his pigs, and placed them in a big field. The pigs are, all tethered with harness like a pet Pekinese within a given perimeter of their respective kennels, and periodically the latter are shifted to a new spot, with a corresponding change in the tether range. I inspected these kennelled pigs, and found them entirely free from 8.0., clean-looking, and to all appearances quite healthy and happy. So we may be opening a new and more aesthetic chapter in our pig culture.