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 * , treatment of, 161.
 * Abstinence from pork, necessary in hot climates, 23.
 * Acorns, pigs thrive on, 182.
 * Age, great, of wild boars, 48.
 * Agricultural societies, influence of, on breeding, 176.
 * America,
 * importation of breeds of swine into, 61;
 * six species of hogs in, 58;
 * wild boars in, 57.
 * Analogy between the Chinese and their pigs, 64.
 * Anatomy of swine, &c. 101,
 * Ancients, boar-hunts of, 48.
 * Anecdotes of pigs, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39.
 * Anglo-Saxons, boar-hunts of, 50.
 * Animal substances, feeding swine on, 188.
 * Apoplexy in pigs, 108.
 * Apparatus for preparing pigs' food, 200.
 * Apples, swine fed on, 189.
 * Ardennes, wild boar of, 52.
 * Armor, hogs in, or Tatous, 15.
 * Ashes given to pigs, 197.
 * Attachments of swine, 39.
 * Autumn, best time for fattening pigs, 190.


 * Babiroussa, the, 14;
 * at Zoological Gardens, 14.
 * Bacon,
 * curing, 213;
 * derivation of the word, 213;
 * importation of, 220.
 * Bakewell, Mr., his pigs, 80.
 * Bavarian pigs, 68.
 * Beans, feeding swine on, 181, 187.
 * Beasts of draught, pigs used as, 36, 37.
 * Bedford, Duke of, cut of his Berkshire sow, 86.
 * Bedfordshire pigs, 82.
 * Beech mast, swine fed on, 182.
 * Bement, Mr., of Albany, on breeding pigs, 61.
 * Berkshire pigs, 85.
 * sow, cut of a, 86.
 * Bladder, the, 134;
 * inversion of, 135.
 * Bleeding swine, 134.
 * Blood, hogs', used as holy water, 65.
 * Boar hunts, laws respecting, 48, 49, 50.
 * of the ancients, 49.
 * of the Anglo-Saxons, 50.
 * Boars, choice of, for breeding, 150.
 * Boar's Head,
 * Christmas dish, 51;
 * presented to the hangman, 51;
 * at Queen Margaret's wedding dinner, 51.
 * Boars,
 * tamed, 39;
 * technical terms for, 50;
 * wild, see "Wild Boars."
 * Bothnian pigs, 68.
 * Brain of the hog, 107;
 * inflammation of, 108.
 * Bran, feeding pigs on, 189.
 * Breeding, rules respecting, 149, 150.
 * swine, how far profitable, 170.
 * Breeds improved by judicious crosses, 153;
 * which are the best, 153.
 * Breweries, pigs fed on refuse of, 179.
 * Brine, poisonous properties of, 220.
 * Bristles,
 * ropes made from,74;
 * use made of, 34.
 * Bronchial tubes, 122.
 * Brushing pigs, 202.
 * Butcher, profit of pigs to the, 206