Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/553/en

The measured calibration of pig husbandry to the farm's own feed base — with bedding, outdoor access, and pasture grazing wherever possible — produces a low-odour, substantive manure of relatively firm consistency. In peasant tradition, probably on account of a sensitivity to the essential nature of pigs as omnivores in comparison with pure plant-eaters, pig dung was called "cold manure" — suited less to the "cold clay soil" than to the "warm sandy soil." Mixed with the other manures arising in the farm organism, it is a valuable complement. As a manure it bears, in its substance-composition as well as in its forces, the stamp of the pig's soul-nature. What the pig tastingly savours and soulfully lives through in deep contentment as it roots in the earth — plant and animal food alike — it subjects, like the other domestic animals of the farm, to a "cosmic-qualitative analysis." The outcome of this analysis characterises the manure's fertilising value. It is a different value in each case, depending on whether the feed is imported goods or produced on the farm itself. By analysing the self-produced feed in its own way, the pig prepares a manure that meets the site-specific needs for the enhancement of soil fertility.