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Show ON TWENTIETH CENTURY FARM, Bathroom for Pigs Looked Upon as a Necessity. "And this Is the pigs' bathroom," Mild .the twentieth century farmer, aa ho fitted an Egyptian cigarette into a long and elegant tube of meerschaum and amber. "I have heard of hog wash, but 1 didn't know pigs bathed. Do they?" The farmer struck a match on bis London-made walking breeches. "Yes, thi modern pig bathes," ho said. "With squeals of rage and disgust dis-gust he tumbles once n week into a hot bath, and U thoroughly scrubbed with stiff- bruslies dipped In strong, soft soap. This cleanliness keeps htm always well, and It Increases bis weight 20 per cent. "All our agricultural colleges now advise the pig to bathe. Uy experiments experi-ments they continually show that baths causa him to fatten a fifth better. bet-ter. The pig's bathroom Is a feature of tho twentieth century farm." |