The Pig: Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing

by Sanders Spencer

THE PIG
BREEDING, REARING, AND MARKETING

BY

SANDERS SPENCER

London
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
Henrietta Street
1919

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Introduction	[13]
I.	Non-Pedigree Pigs	[19]
II.	Pure Breeds (with Standard Descriptions and Scales of Points)	[26]
III.	Cross-bred Pigs	[39]
IV.	Dentition and Age of Pigs	[49]
V.	Selection of the Boar	[54]
VI.	Selection of the Sow	[63]
VII.	The Sow's Udder	[67]
VIII.	Mating the Young Sow	[72]
IX.	The Farrowing Sow	[79]
X.	Weaning Pigs	[91]
XI.	The Rearing of Young Pigs	[97]
XII.	Housing of Pigs	[107]
XIII.	The Exhibition of Pigs	[113]
XIV.	Present and Future Pig-keeping	[125]
XV.	Pig-fattening	[131]
XVI.	A Pig Calendar	[148]
XVII.	Diseases of the Pig	[157]
XVIII.	The Curing of Pork	[171]
	Index	[182]