how to handle PIGS

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May/June 1974
 
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After a week of this, our pigs were like deer. We could walk within a foot of them in tall grass and they would stand stock still and silent, completely invisible.

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I next spent a week or ten days trying to snare the fugitives out in the woods. First I dug a pit trap four feet deep, covered with twigs and burlap and baited with a pan of feed. The hogs fell in half a dozen times, and climbed out just as often. Then I tried a box trap. . . an even more dismal failure. It turned out to be too short and-when triggered-dropped on the backs of the quarry. With its sides held up that way, it let the pigs right out again.

I finally decided just to feed and water the critters out in the brush, and to move their rations a little closer to home every day. This process took another week, until finally one day I set the pan down inside the barn. I was standing on the back porch watching the rain fall when I saw my hogs disappear into their former quarters through the only open entrance. Jubilantly I sneaked down and slammed the door before they knew what had happened. Once more they were domestic pigs.

I hope my experience helps some of MOTHER's readers. Happy hoggin'.

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