St. Paul 249 273 .. Sioux City 593 431 .. Cedar Rapids 346 307 847 St. Joseph, Mo 253 258 .. Ft. Worth, Tex .. .. .. New Orleans .. .. .. Denver 75 64 54 ---- ---- ---- Total 1,516 1,333 .. Montreal 23 26 .. Toronto 57 36 35 ---- ---- ---- Total 80 62 35 [1] For year ended March 31. CRATE FOR MOVING SWINE OR OTHER ANIMALS. It is often desirable to move a small animal from one building to another, or from one pasture enclosure to another. The illustration, Fig. 35, shows a crate on wheels, with handles permitting it to be used as a wheelbarrow. Into this the pig can be driven, the door closed and the crate wheeled away. It will also be found a very useful contrivance in bringing in calves that have been dropped by their dams in the pasture. [Illustration: FIG. 35. HANDY MOVABLE CRATE.] CHAPTER XVI. DISCOVERING THE MERITS OF ROAST PIG. By Charles Lamb. The art of roasting, or rather broiling (which I take to be the elder brother) was accidentally discovered in the manner following. The swineherd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast for his hogs, left his cottage in the care of his eldest son, Bo-bo, a great, lubberly boy, who, being fond of playing with fire, as younkers of his age commonly are, let some sparks escape into a bundle of straw, which, kindling quickly, spread the conflagration over every part of their poor mansion, till it was reduced to ashes. Together with the cottage (a sorry, antediluvian makeshift of a building, you may think it), what was of much more importance, a fine litter of new-farrowed pigs, no less than nine in number, perished. China pigs have been esteemed a luxury all over the east, from the remotest periods that we read of. Bo-bo was in the utmost consternation, as you may think, not so much for the sake of the tenement, which his father and he could easily build up again with a few dry branches, and the labor of an hour or two, at any time, as for the loss of the pigs.