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nesses that Essex county can yet raise candidates for the pork 

 barrel, the smoke-house, the spit, the sausage making machines, 

 the frying-pan and the chowder-pot. 



Honorable mention should also be made of the matronly 

 and amiable partners of Mr. Longfellow's bellicose Boar, who 

 testified their pacific dispositions by sternly repressing several 

 manifestations of a disagreement between their respective off- 

 spring, who proved themselves minors by burrowing into each 

 others pens to engage in juvenile rows. 



Your committee vainly endeavored to ascertain what was 

 the improvement on an " Improved Sufiblk Boar," but could 

 discover nothing remarkable about the animal unless it was an 

 unusually long snout. This feature could but find favor with 

 those farmers who believe with , Mr. Holbrook, of Vermont, 

 that it is sounder practice to use hogs as manufacturers of old- 

 fashioned manure than to buy the fashionable fertilizers of the 

 day, which too often merely stimulate the present crop, and 

 leave the land no better than they found it. An industrious 

 hog, like Wilkins Micawber, Esq., is always " waiting for 

 something to turn-up " with his insinuating yet effective snout, 

 and if supplied with the materials will speedily compost them. 

 Peat, as a basis for hog operations, is more remunerative than 

 when compressed into patent fuel. 



The committee failed in their endeavors to obtain from the 

 exhibitors any new information on the much discussed question 

 as to whether it is profitable to cook food for hogs, about which 

 there has been and is such a wide difference of opinion among 

 the best practical farmers of Essex county. The poet Southey 

 has asserted that — 



" The pig is a philosopher who knows 

 No prejudice." 



Indian-corn doubtless makes the most and best pork, but no 

 properly educated hog objects to the orts and ends of the farm 

 and garden, or the contents of the kitchen swill-pail. There 

 are good reasons however for believing that much of the pork 



