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hog in the boundless forest is as neat in his person and as cleanly 

 in his habits as any dandy among the quadruped tribe. The well 

 known propensity of the domesticated hog to roll himself in the 

 mud and cover himself with a coat of slime, is merely a proof 

 that he requires protection from the rays of the sun and from the 

 attacks of flies. It furnishes no evidence that he receives any 

 positive enjoyment, or derives any permanent benefit from being 

 daubed over with filth. 



An allusion from Scripture is sometimes quoted as an illustra- 

 tion of the filthiness of the hog, but a sow that has been washed 

 during the hottest season in this climate, and more especially in 

 Palestine, will be sure to " return to her wallowings in the mire," 

 not because she has a natural longing for filth, but because she 

 feels scorched and bhstered and sickened by the ardent rays of 

 the sun. Indeed, a hog of any breed, although rejoicing at being 

 accommodated with a filthy quagmire or a stagnant pool to bury 

 itself in at noonday, would be far more grateful, healthy and 

 happy if it could be furnished with shelter in winter, shade in 

 summer, and a clean, dry bed in every season of the year. 



The wild hog, although omnivorous, subsists chiefly on acorns 

 and nuts and roots. His diet is mostly a vegetable one, and he 

 eats his simple food in a decorous manner, such as might be 

 expected from a rational quadruped. He is neither a gormandizer 

 nor a glutton, and would turn away with disgust from such abom- 

 inable food as is often thrown into the pen and pronounced " good 

 enough for hogs." A large portion of the civilized world labor 

 under a great mistake in supposing because a hog in a domesti- 

 cated state will eat any kind of food rather than starve, that he 

 therefore iirefers food of a character which any other animal 

 would reject, and looks upon decomposed vegetables and the most 

 unsavory compounds as the choicest of luxuries. If we would 

 develop to their full extent the good qualities and capabilities of 

 this animal, we should see that he is furnished with a good supply 

 of cleanly, palatable, nutritious food. And a ivide distinction 

 should be made by the lovers of pork between swine that have 

 been properly nurtured and fed, and those which sleep in beds of 

 filth, wallow in sloughs, and are fattened on garbage. It is only 

 in this way the desirable reform in the treatment of hogs can be 

 brought about, and the errors and abuses to which we have alluded 

 be rooted out. 



Your Committee have said that the wild hog enjoys the senses 

 in great perfection, but in the domesticated state, the sense of 

 smell is the only sense he possesses in any remarkable degree. 

 His olfactory nerves are quite sensitive under any circumstances. 

 He snuffs the tempest from afar, and indicates its approach by 

 signs, when no threatening clouds are visible on the horizon. Di- 



