Augustus Whipple - "On the Care of the Pig"

One constant factor in all of the Blandings Castle novels of P. G. Wodehouse is Lord Emsworth's devotion to the study of that monumental tome, On the Care of the Pig, by Augustus Whipple. One wonders why this singularly scholarly volume is not more famous today. (The fact that it is entirely fictitious might have something to do with that, of course.) Whenever the constant bossiness of his sisters grew too great for the Earl to bear, he would retire to his study to refresh himself by perusing Whipple.