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to yourselves, and satisfaction to his numerous admirers. 

 And when the time comes that we shall have nothing but 

 your likeness to look upon, may you enjoy that most 

 enviable of posthumous fame, that the world are now 

 bestowing upon your much lamented predecessor. And 

 so far, I am in candor bound to say, the evidence is 

 strongly in your favor. 



I remain your devoted agricultural friend, 



Solon Robinson. 



Lake Court-House, Feb. 28, 1840. 



Hog Illustration — A True Picture. 



[Albany Cultivator, 7:81-82; May, 1840 1 ] 



[March 15, 1840] 



Messrs. Editors of Cultivator — We are all of us 

 willing to show forth any thing that will illustrate any 

 favorite theory, or favorite breed of cattle that shows 

 to our own advantage. Would it not be equally useful if 

 we were equally willing to illustrate the reverse of the 

 picture? I think it would. And, therefore, I offer the 

 following true picture of the profits of that universal 

 breed of hogs, that covers the face of our country, to the 

 exclusion of a better breed. 



When I settled in this new country a few years ago, 

 I determined that I never would be the owner of any 

 of that vile race of animals which infest the country, 

 and which, before the discovery of the name of "land 

 sharks," used to be known by the name of hogs. But 

 being unable to procure any thing worthy of the name, 

 the force of circumstances made me the owner of several 

 breeding sows in the winter of 1837, then running in 

 the woods. With a force of dogs, men and guns, I 

 caught and brought them home, and confined them in a 

 lot, where I kept my cattle upon prairie hay. I found 

 no difficulty in wintering these wild animals which I had 

 bought for hogs upon the same. In the spring, they 

 "multiplied and replenished" the woods. In the fall there 



'Reprinted in Franklin Farmer, Lexington, Kentucky, 3:301 

 (May 16, 1840). 



