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When, after the birth of the last of her little of six, [?] little ones were put to the udders of the mother, and began to draw their natural food, at that moment the spell was broken, and the measureless love of the mother was developed--it flowed with her milk. Though the process of putting the little pigs occupied scarcely a minute, y[[?]] that short interval sufficed for the great change, the birth of an affection that was to be boundless and untiring so long as her little one needed the mother's care, for upon one of her young uttering a cry as I placed it beside her she turned on me with a roar of anxiety and anger that sent me with a leap to the other end of the enclosure. The development of hoggishness and spite in the young pigs immediately after birth, was both surprising and amusing; they would contend fiercely with each other for food, and when obtained would defend themselves from their fellows by moving their hinder parts towards the quarter from which an intruder approached.
Marblehead, Mass.      JAMES J. H. GREGORY.
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(For the Country Gentleman and Cultivator.)
REMEDIES FOR CRIB-BITING