The Pig, Breeding, Rearing and Marketing
by Sanders Spencer
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About this eBook
- Author
- Spencer, Sanders, 1840-
- Title
- The Pig: Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing
- Credits
- Produced by Steven Giacomelli, Simon Gardner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- SF: Agriculture: Animal culture
- Subject
- Swine -- Marketing
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 33074
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33074
- Release Date
- July 4, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE PIG BREEDING, REARING, AND MARKETING — CONTENTS — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — INTRODUCTION
- 2.THE PIG — CHAPTER I NON-PEDIGREE PIGS — The Hampshire — Spotted Pigs — The Large White and Blue Pigs — White Pigs — Black Pigs — CHAPTER II PURE BREEDS — STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE — LARGE WHITE — MIDDLE WHITE — TAMWORTH — BERKSHIRE PIGS — LARGE BLACK PIG — LARGE WHITE ULSTER — LINCOLNSHIRE CURLY-COATED PIG — THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE OLD SPOTS — THE CUMBERLAND PIG — CHAPTER III CROSS-BRED PIGS — CHAPTER IV DENTITION AND AGE OF PIGS — CHAPTER V SELECTION OF THE BOAR — CHAPTER VI SELECTION OF THE SOW — CHAPTER VII THE SOW'S UDDER — CHAPTER VIII MATING THE YOUNG SOW — CHAPTER IX THE FARROWING SOW — CHAPTER X WEANING PIGS — CHAPTER XI THE REARING OF YOUNG PIGS — CHAPTER XII HOUSING OF PIGS — CHAPTER XIII THE EXHIBITION OF PIGS — CHAPTER XIV PRESENT AND FUTURE PIG-KEEPING — CHAPTER XV PIG-FATTENING — CHAPTER XVI A PIG CALENDAR — CHAPTER XVII DISEASES OF THE PIG — Swine Fever — Swine Erysipelas — Anthrax, Foot and Mouth Disease and Rabies — Cramp, Diarrhœa and Epileptic Fits — Inversion of the Vagina or the Uterus — Inversion of the Rectum — Tender Feet — Constipation — Eczema — Measles — Rickets — Tuberculosis — Worms — Sore Teats — Salt and Soda Poisoning — CHAPTER XVIII THE CURING OF PORK — INDEX
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