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den,(1)_ As,this animal is principally useful as food, 
the improyers;of the species haye aimed, only at 
torming,a race. which, with the least expence and: in 
the shortest time, should acquire the greatest bulk 
‘and, the highest degree of fatness... It is.on this. prin- 
ciple that the Chinese hog, which fats promptly and 
easily, but, which attains only, to a small size, is with 
great propriety, mixed with the bog of Europe, which 
acquires a much greater bulk, but is proportionably 
slow, and difficult of fatning. . The result of this mix- 
ture, has been many. improved races, at the head of 
which stands the hog of Parma, and those known, in 
England by the names of the Bakewel! and Babes 
breeds, pep ids 
The weight, of the hog, at eighteen, months. or two 
years of\age, (taking for granted a regular and suffi- 
cient nourishment,) varies from two to four hundred 
pounds. , Buffon, mentions. a hog killed in England, 
which weighed 850 pounds. . Sonnini, bis commenta- 
ior, mentions another, killed i in France, which weigh- 
ed 990 pounds ; and. Mr. Jefferson a third, killed in 
Virginia, which. reached. the enormous. weight, of 
1200 pounds.(2), 
The value of the hog is increased BY their natural 
fecundity, which much exceeds that of any other spe- 
cies of domestic animal. * This subject was thought 
worthy the pen of Marshal Wauban, who left behind 
him a manuscript calculation of the offspring of a 
single sow. ‘The paper was read in the Institute of 
_ (1). This is the Sus angula indivisa of Linneus. ‘ Aristottle was the first to mention 
this species andafter him Pliny; Linneus says, it is common in Upsal and. other can- 
tons of Sweden. Amenitat. Acad. tome 5: page 450, 
(2) Notes on Miceiche. 
