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of the butcher, than he had ever before witnessed. 

 There was the least possible oflal, the inside seeming 

 to be filled with flesh. It was remarked that the 

 great gut was smaller than the smallest gut of a 

 small pig. This pork was excellent, inclining to 

 the savoury. 



It has never occurred, that I am aware, to our 

 breeders, to preserve any of the fine foreign varie- 

 ties pure, whence possibly a still more delicate 

 pork might be raised than any we at present pos- 

 sess, granting the attempt were made with those 

 which furnish muscular flesh or lean, as well as 

 fat. Some of the wild swine of the opposite con- 

 tinent are well adapted to such purpose, and are 

 besides very prolific. Most countries abounding 

 with forests have herds of wild swine ; these animals, 

 under such circumstances, being always ready to 

 quit domestication. I remember, very many years 

 ago, two young boars retiring, on French leave, to 

 an extensive wood, then the property of Mrs. El- 

 dred, between Colchester and Mersea Island, which 

 became subsequently, during several years, the terror 

 of the neighbourhood. Hunting the wild boar in 

 India is a sport attended with considerable danger, of 

 which there is an amusing account in a late number 

 of the Sporting Magazine. 



CONVENIENCES FOR SWINE. 



ROOM and VENTILATION are objects of the great- 

 est import where numbers are kept, and dry lodging, 

 without which essentials success must not be ex- 



