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cate what they deem the essential characteristics of a good 

 hog. He should not be too long — full in the head and 

 cheek, short neck, good round carcass and full quarters. 

 Formerly, the Berkshire breed was preferred, but now it is 

 believed that a cross with the small Chinese breed is the 

 most profitable, they being susceptible of considerable weight, 

 with comparative light feeding, while the cross has produced 

 a more mild disposition in the animal. 



Your Committee deem it their duty, to urge upon every 

 family that has a small patch or garden, to rear their own 

 pork. The public have but a vague, imperfect idea of the 

 large sums of money which might be saved by substituting 

 hogs for dogs. In the expense it will be less, while by a 

 little care and economy, by the saving the wash or swill — 

 the weeds of the garden, and surplus vegetables, adding a 

 little corn meal at the end, they may eat their own pork, 

 in lieu of eating as they do, many times, the rattlesnake, 

 beechnut pork of the west. Our native born citizens, may 

 well take a useful hint from our Celtish brethren, with their 

 clean, well washed pigs, well secured pig stys, and potato 

 patches to feed them. 



To the farmer, they would say, build warm, comfortable 

 hog houses, which shall shelter this abused animal from 

 our keen wintry winds, and he will pay you for it in addi- 

 tional pork. Commence to breed largely from the most ap- 

 proved stock, upon a large scale. The little grunters will 

 always sell to profit. Instead of fatting four or five hogs a 

 year, you can about as well fat forty or fifty, and let us 

 have the pleasing, the profitable reflection, here in Webster 

 County, that let others do what they will, here we save our 

 own bacon. 



For the Committee, 



A. CROCKER, Chairman. 



