TO DRIVE A PIG

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1782, 13 July 1926, Page 6

TO DRIVE A PIG

USING (DIPLOMACY

It is a well-known fact that it is almost an impossibility to induce a pig to go where you happen to want him by the old-fashioned way of just driving him. He js sure to resent the idea of travelling in the path you have mapped out, and is “pih-headed” enough to choose some other direction. (However, it has been discovered that., by simply using a little diplomacy, the pig can be very easily induced to travel in any direction that you may happen to desire, while still believing that he is carrying out his own inclinations.

This i s the first way: If you have ever tried to drive a pig up a little inclined platform into a waggon you will remember that you experienced a rather strenuous time. The pig evidently took it for granted that you and he were playing a game, with the result that he came off victorious. If you had simply held a half-bushel basket ov.er the pig’s head he would immediately have started to back, and you could very easily have steered him up the platform and into the waggon in less time than it takes to tell it. This is the second way: If ever you dkisire to drive a pig for any long distance over the ground, just attach a long rope to one of his hind legs, and follow along after him. If he begins to side-track, a little pull on the rope will start him off again in the right direction.