An enterprising writer in the Norwich Argus has just been making a computation which gives some startling results. He has discovered that, if permitted, pigs will live till from 15. to 20 years of age; that they commence breeding when they are from nine to 12 months old ; and that from one pair only in 10 years, allowing only six to litter, male and female, upward of 6,434,838 pigs would bo obtained ; that is to say, that if, instead of three acres and a cow, a oountryman started with some acres and a pair of pigs he might, in the course of 10 years, count their progeny by millions.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 858, 10 August 1888, Page 27
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