Kinney on Swine and Their Diseases
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. %tp..: \ ©op^rig^ fa, Shelf,...; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. HKINNEYK ON Swine >nd Their Disej AN J) THEIR BREEDING.REARlNGf MANAGEMENT. ALSO HIS THIRTY-THREE YEARS' SUSSESSFUL MEDKBAL TREATMENT lOFi SIXTY-FO UR DISTINCT DISEASES. >h> "• GEORGE w/kINNEY. i ALL COMMUNICATIONSUNICATIONS TO. DIRECT TO | D. T. MICHAEL TAYLORVILLE, ILLINOIS. *~ r Copyright, 1891, By GEOKGE W. KINNEY, All Rights^ Reserved. PRRFAGR. The continual introduction of and the use of thor- oughbred boars will, with a liberal system of pedigree, produce better pork at a far less cost than when we use the common boar, and the farmer who practices this will be more likely to study the principles of breeding with an interest he had never felt before. With the end in view to improvement of the different breeds of hogs and their health, I offer this volume to the public, hoping that into the hands of whoever this work may fall that they will give it a careful perusal. I give it the name Swine because it applies to all breeds and classes of the hog species. If I were writing a work on natural history, hog would be the proper word to be used. But this is mere- ly a practical treatise on Swine. First, the manner and mode of breeding, as given by those who have spent years in the improvement of the different breeds throughout both Europe and the United States, as given by Stevens in his Book of Form, the wri- ters in Morton's Cyclopedia of Agriculture, and Youatt, Martin, Richardson, Sydney, and Darwin, though they speak of the pig and not hog, think that the refined, im- proved hog of to-day should not receive the rough, dirty name of a thousand years ago, as you will see from the plates in this work which are true copies given by the above authors.
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