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Start with any kind of edible starch, such as bananas, rice or bread. Tear it into bite-sized pieces.
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Wrap individual pieces of starch into scraps of cotton cloth and tie closed.
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Bury the wrapped starch in a shady spot in a hole about one foot deep. Wait one week.
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Dig up the starch, unwrap and make sure it doesn't smell bad. If so, discard.
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Mix the starch pieces together in a bag and top off with molasses or sugar.
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Hang the bag up for a week or more.
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Pour the mixture in a bucket, add water and mix. Add maize bran and more molasses or sugar. Cover the bucket and wait three days.
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Loosen the dirt bedding in the pen.
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Sprinkle the mixture over it. Attracted to the sweet smell, the pigs will dig at the indigenous microorganism mixture, helping to mix it into the bedding.
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