SWINE. 237 



But when we remember that even a hog cannot be so hog-g-ish 

 as to more than fill himself, and one quart of cooked meal would 

 fill them as much as three quarts of uncooked meal, we can 

 easily see that a pig, fed on uncooked meal, would eat nearly 

 or quite three times the value of meal, compared with the one 

 fed on cooked food, providing cooking did not increase the 

 value. Even if cooking increases the value one-third, then a 

 pig would not be able to eat enough to fatten readily, as it must 

 take a certain amount of food to support life, whether cooked 

 or uncooked. Taking swine from uncooked food and putting 

 them upon cooked food, in both cases, they lost in weight. On 

 the other hand, taking them from cooked food and giving them 

 uncooked food, there was a fair gain. 



SUNDEHLAND, Oct. 8, 1855. 



HAMPDEN. 



Report of the Committee. 



The committee on swine, availing themselves of the privilege 

 usually granted to all committees on important subjects, to 

 embrace such collateral testimony as may be elicited by an ex- 

 amination of the subject referred, and to illustrate their con 

 elusions by comparisons analogous to the direct object of their 

 investigation, have attended to the duties of their appointment, 

 and respectfully submit their report in the form of A Tale on 

 kSwine. 



" My kingdom for a horse," that we might escape the duty. 

 A Tale on Swine ! Who ever saw a swine without a tail ? or, 

 who ever saw a swine with two tails ? Now, let us not be mis- 

 understood in this subject, for the law makes nice distinctions 

 sometimes in matters of less importance ; and as, by recent 

 enactment, the construction of the law is intrusted to the jury, 

 the committee, as jurors in this case, will first decide the dis- 

 tinction between a tail and a tale. If we remove the "t" from 

 tail, it becomes a malady ; if from tale, it leaves a proscribed 

 beverage under the present license law, and this would seem to 

 exhibit the distinction to a t. But still greater distinctions do 

 exist between the two, which will be apparent by a further illus- 



