DIVERSITY Of 



CALIFORNIA 



A MANUAL m THE HOG. 



IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT. 



In this utilitarian age, the value or importance of every- 

 thing seems- to be determined by the profit to be derived 

 from it, or the amount of human comfort secured by its 

 use. It is with these two objects in view that this subject 

 will be discussed. 



From the remotest ages of the past to the present time, 

 the hog has been an object of special interest to the human 

 race, in all of its stages of social, moral and intellectual 

 development, from the rude barbarian to the most enlight- 

 ened. He contributes more largely to the food supply of 

 the human race than any other one animal, notwithstand- 

 ing the fact that two very large religious sects the Jews 

 and Mohammedans reject his flesh as an article of food. 



The hog is a cosmopolite, equally at home in all except 

 the frigid zones, though his original habitat was in com- 

 paratively warm climates. 



The reader will better understand the importance of the 

 subject under discussion by reference to statistics. 



The, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics shows, in his state- 

 ment of Domestic Exports during the fiscal year ending 

 June 30th, 1876, that the United States exported during 

 that year : 



