54 ON SWINE — ON THE DA FRY. 



.sidering that we are a Committee on Swine, we have 

 felt bound to take our stand upon pig — not that we love 

 Lamb less, but pig more. 



The late eminent writer, and celebrated Poet, Robert 

 Southey, although he held the high station of Poet Lau- 

 reate of England, and whose special duty it was to com- 

 pose Sonnets and birth-day Odes in honor of Royalty, 

 has wielded the same powerful pen in defence of his 

 Royal Highness the Hog. We think we cannot more 

 appropriately close this report than by citing a few lines 

 from his apology for the Pig. 



-"I do not love to see thy nose 



Turned up in scornful curve at yonder pig. 



It would 1)0 well my friend, if we, like him, 



Were perfect in our kind. And why despise 



The sow-horn (jrunter? Thou sayst he lives 



A dirty life. Here I could shelter him 



With precedents right reverend and noble. 



And show by sanction of authority 



That 'tis a very honorable thing 



To thrive by dirty ways. But let me rest 



On better ground, the unanswerable defence. 



The Pig is a Philosopher, who knows 



No prejudice. Dirt! Wliat is dirt.? 



If matter, why the delicate dish that tempts 



The o'er gorged epicure is nothing more. 



And there — that breeze 



Pleads with me, and has won thee to the smile 



That speaks conviction. O'er yon blossomed field 



Of beans it came, and thoughts of bacon rise." 



For the Committee, 



F. POOLF 



ON THE DAIRY. 



The Committee on the Dairy, in presenting their Re- 

 port, would remark, that the first prerequisite in making 

 good butter is to have good cows. And to be sure in 

 this respect, every farmer should test the value of each 

 cow by milking and preserving her milk separately, and 

 noting carefully the quantity required to make a pound 

 of butter. By a very little attention in this way, it may 



