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sooner or later, of a cow and a pig the pig to con- 

 sume the waste growth of his garden, and the cow to 

 supply such tender food for his growing ones as they 

 most need. 



The pig can hardly be regarded as a classic ani- 

 mal ; Virgil, indeed, introduces him as crunching 

 acorns under elm-trees which account I cannot help 

 reckoning as apocryphal. But he is a very jolly and 

 frisky little animal in his young days, not without a 

 good deal of clumsy grace in his movements, and 

 showing a most human zeal for the full end of the 

 trough. 



There is almost the same diversity of opinion with 

 respect to the different races of pigs, which our horti- 

 cultural friends indulge in with respect to fruits. It 

 is always an awkward matter to discuss the merits of 

 different families, whether of animals who talk, or 

 animals who only grunt or bellow. If the raw sub- 

 urban resident, in whose interest I make these notes, 

 has an ambition to rear a prize hog that shall out- 

 weigh anything his neighbors can show, and intends 

 to keep his bin full of rank material, I should cer- 

 tainly advise the great-boned Chester County race, 

 which, with judicious feeding, come to most elephan- 

 tine proportions. If, on the other hand, he should 

 prefer a dapper, snug-jointed beast, that shall not be 

 particular in regard to food, and which will yield him 



