Charcoal for
Pitys. Give charcoal to pigs occasionally ?. they eat it greedily, and it would be wolfli to, sift -wood ashes to get charcoal for that y*u.-pose. Ashes on so many are leached tor tye s| and then spread upon land from which p%s are excluded, that, swine seldom get chavooaL Both charcoal and ashes are antidotes for fermentation in tlie> stomach, and aro especially boneficial and invportant while pigs are growing, or beingfattened. A healthy digestion conduces to> a healthy anriß rapid growth. On the other hand-* there can, be Htfl)a gain when the stomach, is flatulent andt ■fcyerish $. in, that condition a, proper assimilation of food cannot be- expected, nor satisfac*tory results reaJasedj j& raising wim*
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Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 7
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118Charcoal for Otago Witness, Issue 1602, 5 August 1882, Page 7
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