ADVICE FOR LACKLAND 



There is almost the same diversity of opinion 

 with respect to the different races of pigs, 

 which our horticultural friends indulge in with 

 respect to fruits. It is always an awkward mat- 

 ter to discuss the merits of different families, 

 whether of animals who talk, or animals who 

 only grunt or bellow. If the raw suburban 

 resident, in whose interest I make these notes, 

 has an ambition to rear a prize hog that shall 

 out-weigh anything his neighbors can show, 

 and intends to keep his bin full of rank mate- 

 rial, I should certainly advise the great-boned 

 Chester County race, which, with judicious 

 feeding, come to most elephantine proportions. 

 If, on the other hand, he should prefer a dap- 

 per, snug-jointed beast, that shall not be par- 

 ticular in regard to food, and which will yield 

 him cutlets in which the muscular material 

 shall not be utterly overlaid and lost in fatty 

 adipose matter, I should counsel the sleek 

 Berkshire. Or if, uniting the two, he should de- 

 sire a delicate limbed, well-rounded, contented 

 little animal, that shall browse with equanimity 

 upon the purslane and the spare beet-tops from 

 his garden, I know none safer to commend 

 than the Suffolks. Nor is it essential that he 

 be thorough bred, since the tokens of pur sang 

 are a red baldness, and a possible twisting 



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