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take flesh earlier and with greater facility, and, altogether, to 
turn out more profitably, than one of questionable or impure 
stock ; and, such being the case, I consider that the head of 
the hog is by no means a point to be overlooked by the pur- 
chaser. The description of head most likely to promise or 
rather to be concomitant of high breeding, is one not carry- 
ing heavy bone, not too flat on the forehead, or possessing a 
too elongated snout ; the snout should be short, and the 
forehead rather convex, curving upward : and the ear should 
be, while pendulous, inclining somewhat forward, and at the 
same time light and thin. Nor should the buyer pass over 
even the carriage of a pig. If this be dull, heavy, and 
dejected, reject him, on suspicion of ill health, if not of some 
concealed disorder actually existing, or just about to break 
forth ; and there cannot be a more unfavorable symptom 
than a hung-down, slouching head. Of course, a fat hog for 
slaughter, or a sow heavy with young, has not much spright- 
liness of deportment. 
ee Nor is the colour altogether to be lost sight of. In the 
case of hogs I would prefer those colours which are charac- 
teristic of our most esteemed breeds. If the hair be scant, 
I would look for black, as denoting connection with the 
Neapolitan ; but if too bare of hair, I would be disposed to 
apprehend too immediate alliance with that variety, and a 
consequent want of hardihood, that, however unimportant if 
pork be the object, renders such animals hazardous specula- 
tions as stores, from their extreme susceptibility to cold and 
consequent liability to disease. If white, and not too small, I 
w r ould like them as exhibiting a connection with the Chinese. 
If light or sandy, or red with black marks, I would recognise 
our favorite Berkshire .” — The Farmers' Herald, Jan . 1853. 
TINCTURE OF MASTIC AS A HAEMOSTATIC. 
It is stated in a recent number of Schmidt's Jahrhucher , 
that Dr. Franlcl has found the tincture of mastic an excellent 
haemostatic. He employs it in epistaxis, and in troublesome 
bleeding from leech bites. It is applied to the points whence 
the blood issues, by means of a camePs hair pencil. Terzer, 
a dentist of Vienna, is also reported to have used it success- 
fully in haemorrhage following the extraction of teeth. 
