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Title: The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;
Identifier: cu31924024782827 (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Pechuel-Loesche, Eduard, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard
Subjects: Mammals
Publisher: Chicago, A. N. Marquis
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE SWINEâSWINE PROPER. Pigs were brought to him; they were attired in â queer clothing and danced to the music of a bag- pipe. Other Pigs have been trained to form words -of large printed letters, to indicate the time after looking at a clock, etc. An Englishman had a Pie trained to hunt. The animal was called "Slut" it was very fond of the sport and would follow 'any hunter. It would point at any kind of game with the exception of the Hare, which it never ^seemed to notice. So sensitive was its nose that it would fre- quently point at a bird at a distance of forty yards "Slut" was employed in the capacity of pointer for several years, but was at last killed, because it had become a dangerous neighbor to the Sheep. Other Pigs have been trained to run in harness. A farmer near St. Albans, England, often came in with a team â of four Hogs, drove once or twice around the mar- ket-place, fed his team, and then drove back to his o45 cause its death: as to the rest it eats anything Man eats and a hundred things beside. It selects its food indiscriminately from the vegetable and animal king- doms. It makes itself very useful on fallow land and in stubble-fields, as it destroys Mice, Maggots, bnails Earth-worms, Grasshoppers, chrysalids of Butterflies, and various weeds, and as a result gets very fat while it is rooting up the earth. Black Hogs are said to enjoy the advantage of being able to consume poisonous plants of all kinds without mjury to themselves, and therefore they are kept in some countries to either partial or total exclusion of all others. While one tries, as much as possible, during the fat- tening process to keep domestic Hogs from taking exercise, he must allow some space for recreation to those destined for breeding. They also require clean, warm folds. The pairing usually occurs twice
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THE TUFTED HOO. This animal, sometimes known as the Red River Hog, is noted for its vivid coloring its sninpwhaf (,âTr,â»j k.-i j hght-colored mane, and above all for its long, penciled ears. It is a native of west Africa, where it runs wiM TS^Vt^^s Tp^fl^o^r^s^lrcl"^^ house. Another farmer laid a wager that he would in one hour ride his Pig from his own house to Nor- folk, a distance of four miles, and he won his wager. . These stories prove that Hogs are docile and carry with them the corollary that we ought not to underrate their mental capacity. It is a queer fact that Hogs always display a certain aversion towards Dogs. Tame and wild Hogs have no scruples against eating all other sorts of carrion, but are said never to touch Dog-flesh; on the other hand strange Dogs are often attacked by a gang of village Hogs, and sportsmen and promenaders, who, with their Dogs, visit villages where Hogs are allowed to run abroad, do well in being cautious. , Feeding and Uses In general a tame' Hog is almost of the Domes- absolutely omnivorous. There really tic Hog. is hardly'a nutritive substance which this animal would scorn. Some plants are not toiiche'd by it and acrid, pungeht spices sdmetimes a year, in the beginning of April or in September. From sixt^ien to eighteen weeks later, the sow pro- duces from four to six, sometimes from twelve to fifteen, and in rare cases from twenty to twenty-four young. The mother displays little maternal solici- tude for her Pigs, often not even preparing a bed before their arrival. It happens not infrequently, when the number of her progeny annoys her, that she eats some of them, this usually happening'after she has smothered them by rolling over the Pigs accidentally. Some sows have to be watched and denied animal food a longtime before the little ones make their appearance. If the mother is patient and careful with them, the young are left to suckle for four weeks, and require no other attentiom Then they are taken away and reared on light, easily- digested food. Their growth is very rapid anci a Hog is capable of reproduction at the early age of eight months. ' â â â ,,,;â j . & , ,.-

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