Identifier: horseotherlivest00jenn (find matches)
Title: The horse and other live stock
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Jennings, Robert, 1824- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter & co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hort time all the fat is extracted, and falls upon the lower bottom. The remaining mass is bones and scraps. The last is fed to pigs, poultry, or dogs, or affords the best kind of manure. The bones are either used for manure, or are converted into animal charcoal, valuable for various purposes in the arts. When the object is to obtain lard of a fine quality, the animal20 305 68 SWINE AND THEIR DISEASES. is first skinned, and the adhering fat then carefully scraped oflf; thus avoiding the oily, viscid matter of the skin. The bristles of the coarse breeds are long, strong, firm, and elastic. These are formed into brushes for painters and artists, as well as for numerous domestic uses. The skin, when tanned, is of a peculiar texture, and very tough. It is used for making pocket-books, and for some ornamental purposes; but chiefly for the seats of riding-saddles. The numerous little variegations on it, which constitute its beauty, are the orifices whence the bristles have been removed.306
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r- THEIK By reason of being generally considered asubordinate species of stock, swine do not, in manycases, share in the benefits which an improvedsystem of agriculture and the present advanced state of veteri-nary science, have conferred upon other domesticated animals.Since they are by no means the most tractable, of patients, itis any thing but an easy matter to compel them to swallowany thing to which their appetite does not incite them ; and,(69) 307 VO SWINE AND THEIR DISEASES. hence, prevention will be found better than cure. Cleanlinessis the great point to be insisted upon in the management ofthese animals If this, and warmth, be only attended to, ail-ments among them are comparatively rare. As, however, disappointment may occasionally occur, evenunder the best system of management, a brief view of theprincipal complaints with which they are liable to be attackedis presented, together with the best mode of treatment to beadopted in such cases. CATCHING THE PIG. Swine are very

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