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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869
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299 racious performances. The acute instinct which directs the pig straight to lis home, as the bee flies, miles distant, when he was conveyed in a tight box rom home, round a circuitous and crooked road, is a performance that man, v n t h all his faculties, can never imitate. There is no animal so low in the scale but has characteristics that excite »ur admiration and wonder. They are all the handiwork of the Great Archiect of Nature. If we would rear them successfully we must know their naures, their instincts and their wants, and we shall learn that the treatment vhich kindness and humanity dictates will bring the greatest pecuniary proit. As the path of duty is the path of happiness, so kindness to the most nferior animals we rear, is the best guarantee of success. DISCUSSION. Mr. M. L. DUNLAP—We have a gentleman here who makes a peciality of breeding hogs for the purpose of selling. Perhaps 10 party has sent out a larger number or a better style of pigs. I efer to Mr. Floyd. He can no doubt tell us something that wil\ > instructive upon this subject. e Mr. FLOYD—The speaker, in the excellent lecture given us, has aid all that is necessary to be said. I have nothing further to Ad that I think would be either instructive or interesting. A VOICE—At what time would you advise the commencing of eeding grain? Mr. BALDWIN—Early feeding is always better than late feeding, nd having commenced to feed early we would increase the feed ntil hot weather is past. Mr. ROBINSON—I would ask what stock of hogs is best for our State ? "What class of hogs is usually made most valuable in our ountry ? Mr. BALDWIN—I think perhaps the Berkshire is as good as any. Mr. M. L. DUNLAP—I will mention a very important use that is aade of the hog. In passing through this State I find that many ruit growers are using the hog to pick up the fallen fruit, that ontains the codling moth and the curculio. Large orchards are up posed by this means to be kept free from these enemies. Now f this is the case, we have here a hint to fence in our orchards, o we can turn in our hogs and save our fruit. I have no doubt 7e shall have, before long, to adopt this plan. It is also economial. A small amount of feed will do the hogs, aside from what bey get in the orchard.
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