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fleece. With some enterprise and attention, the mountain 

 may become the mutton-growing region of the State. Will 

 the mountaineers look at this subject a little ? 



HOG. 



PACHYDERMATA, (Family SuidaB.) 



Genus Sus. Species Scrofa, variety Domestica. Many 

 varieties of the common hog exist, the most detestable of 

 which is, perhaps, the mountain wood-hog. It is composed 

 principally of bristles, gristles, legs, and snout,* producing 

 indestructible pork, which is also destitute of lard. The 

 form of the animal is that of a fish, with long legs, consti- 

 tuting the true land-pike, to which no fence is impenetrable. 

 A cross with the Berkshire and China modify the creature 

 to a certain extent in his leading attributes, furnishing a 

 pork that may be partially masticated by first-class natural 

 grinders. This animal is undoubtedly a return (illustration 

 of the fatal and eternal un alter ability of type) to the ori- 

 ginal wild boar, Sus Scrofa. 



JACKASS. 



(Family Equidse.) 



Genus EQUUS, (Linn.) Species Asinus, Jackass. This 

 is a native of the East, a hardy and useful animal, valuable 

 for more purposes than the degradation of the horse by the 

 production of monsters in the shape of mules. It thrives 

 well on the mountain. 



HORSE. 



EQUUS Caballus, the horse. The present horse cultivated 

 on the continent, as is well known, is not indigenous. It 

 was long supposed that there was no American horse, and 



* This is a close connection of the Crawford County hog, a slab- 

 sided brute, flat as a shingle, with large predominance of the above 

 materials, particularly bristles and jaws, with the addition of an ex- 

 cessively long, straight, characteristic tail. This is the variety well 

 known to everybody as the hog which is prevented passing through 

 fences by tying knots on his tail. 



