EDITOR'S PREFACE 



THK Publisher having committed to the editor the task of combin- 

 ing in one, the two volumes of " Youatt on the Hog," and " Martin 

 on the Hog," he has endeavored to so unite them, as to offer in one 

 the full substance of both. These two works are the best in our, or 

 any language, on the subject of the Hog. Youatt is eminent and 

 superior in his historical, descriptive, and veterinary portions, 

 and Martin in his Natural History of Swine. The Editor has taken 

 Youatt's work as the basis, which he has preserved entire, and has 

 incorporated therewith such portions of Martin as are not in Youatt, 

 and are not repetitions. 



The volume now presented is superior in its material to any other 

 on the subject of the Hog now extant, in all its departments of 

 natural history, in the history of the relations of the animal to man. 

 in its veterinary, or surgical and medical treatment, and in mo 

 breeding, feeding, fattening, and general economy of the Hog. 



A. STEVENS. 



