Identifier: livestockcyclope00bake (find matches)
Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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GROUP OV CHESTER WHITES. The hunting of wild hogs has formed an exciting chase in ail ages ofLhe world, both on account of their fleetness and their savage couragewhen brought to bay. In the southern portions of the United States, insparsely settled districts, swine are found escaped from domestication, andshowing all their natural savage traits, including dangerous fiercenesawhen brought to bay. Forty years ago the writer hunted wild hogs,—the descendants of Indian breeds,—in the swamps and morasses of north-ern Indiana and the timbered river bottoms of the Calumet. The hai-dwinter of 1844, howev(;r, destroyed the last remnant of these wild hogs,they having all died in their lairs, from exposure and want of food. Wildhogs are now rarely found in Europe, and this when preserved in royalforests as in Denmark, Italy and Greece. In France and Germany theyhave become extremely rare, and in Great. Britain the wild species haslong been extinct CO CO ?1 ■; ^ p td
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HISTORY AND STATISTICS OF SWIXE. 941 V, Teeth of the Hog. The teeth of swine are 44 in number, as follows: Incisors, six upperand six lower, (12); canines or tusks, two upper and two lower, (4);molars, or grinding teeth, fourteen upper and fourteen lower, (28); mak-ing 44, inrlnding what were formerly called wolf teeth, but are now.classed with the molars. They are represented scientiticilly by the den-ial formula: ; — ; — ;; —44. Furstenburg, a careful German author-ity, gives the manner of determining the age of swine as follows : Born with eight teeth, four corner incisors and four tusks, on theeighth or tenth day the second or third temporary molars appear. Thefour ni))pers, two on the upper and two on the under jaw, appear at fourweeks old. At the fifth or sixth week the first temporary molars appear in theupper and lower jaw. At the age of three months the intermediary incisors aj)pear. At the sixth, the so-called wolf teeth arc seen, and also the third per-manent molars.

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