PIGS. 



YarrelTs Description — Mr. Crisp — Prussian Trade — Different Sorts : 

 Essex, Yorkshire, Suffolk, Tamworth, &c. — Pork during the 

 Peninsular War — Irish Pig — Pig's Dung as Manure— Modes of 

 fattening on Apples, Mast, Acorns, &c. — Food cooked and raw — 

 Peach Orchards— Mills and Breweries — Drayhorse — Nettle Broth 

 — Grease— Cotter's Pig— Stores— Damaged Rice Cargoes— Milk- 

 fed, Corn-fed, &c, Pork — Irish Bacon— "Westphalia Hams — Acorns 

 as Food — Beans— Mangold-wurzel — Physicking a Pig — Bleeding 

 — Porcine Dentition — Dr. Symonds — The Pig superior to Poison 

 — Flavour dependent on Food — Relative value of Black and 

 White Pig — Clean Lair — How to prevent Pigs rooting — Cinders 

 as a Condiment — Young Pigs — Brood Sows — Lying-in Sties — 

 Weaning— Wild Sow — Profit of Breeding— Age of Porcine Race 

 — Curing Hams — Historic Influence of the Pig — A Porcine Racer 

 — Time to purchase Porkers — Access to Fresh Water essential. 



" Sus 8crofa, cochon, verrat, common hog. Generic 

 character — snout elongated, &c. ; specific character — 

 back bristly, tail hairy, &c." Shades of Morland, 

 "Wiley, Fisher Hobbs ! Whatever will ye exclaim 

 at such teaching on the part of Mr. Yarrell ? How 

 doctors have come to disagree hereupon ! How 

 diametrically dissimilar is the idiosyncrasy of those 

 sleek, rounded representatives of porcine civilisation 

 which are being annually imported from the yards 

 of the famous Mr. Crisp for crossing with the produce 

 of Prussia and Russia, to the probable future damage 

 of the present trade in bristles. To be practical, 



