Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-04-20

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10 assure our readers, that regular saline !. ~
less refeial to hogs than to ,,her s,oot ~ !, =. no
70 spread the salt en- ashes in the sal, ,ro,.h
| nooe well calculated 10 preserve the bo.,'I -
animals. "0'''" Vi Inc
From the Farmer Rcpis,erl
| ANOTHER WAY OF FArrGNfSd noes
| mas oeen often SAIL Of the Dutch farmers i,
the State of New York and of the Gern,, IL
OF Pennsylvania, that in many yerv mno,,an,
branches of their business, they indclen,lv follom
rom generation TO generation, those imperfect Gus
IONS ana ways OF their forrathcrs, which grew out
OF mat rude state of things, belonging to the settle
'hch' oi an intermlnabe wilderness, and which
we're aoop'ed from the necessity of the case. |
'"''n me extraordinary manner in which hogs are
Po'.n'''eu 10 run al large IN Virginia, is as strong
an instance OF vcncration for ancient customs ne
can DC produced in the more Norihery States Ger
tainly as far os that audabc feeling has anv thing
to co with the NATTER the ancient dominion main.
'ains Its reputation we'll for the observation is not
united to particular localities, but appears to apply
10 every part OF the Saie ca ST of the mountains
ne custom OF letting sows pig in the woods.
ana thcn suffering them 10 get precarious living
mere Tor The next twenty months grew cuf of the
necessity OF the thing, when the first settlements
were made. The planters in those times had con.
| san'y 10 provide against dangers which eyrn
menacod their lives. Ii would be unreasonable TO
suppose that the sort of management and econo Nv
of means which are so successfully practscd in our
day, could be carried by such men into the details
their farming atfars--They were too much en-.
crossed with keeping the countrv for their pos,erity
Bacon, however, they could not do well without,
and it was the least dsadv anita geous way 10 pro.
cure IL TO lei The hogs at large, and feed upon
the mast, which sometimes, but not every year is
n Yer
chased very denly FIVE look back to the various
legislative rnaclnerts the subject of these ami
mails, we ran form to ourselves some dea-far short
the truth, lmogine-of the anxiety, the trouble,
tile loss of time and temper the qnarrcs the occa.
s'on'l loss OF life, which produced these cnnctments
In The Statutes at Large, il appecrs in 1862, only
'wcn'y-sx years after the first settlement OF Virsi-
Ia, no man was allowed to kill hog except on his
own plan'alion This enactment no doubt was
suggested By The Misunderstanding of the planters
| In lG42, any man killing hogs on his own land
was obliged TO call in two witnesses to ascertain
that the hogs were unmarked. Any man convicted
Of killing tau hog, no, his own was to "suner as
| fe|on. This punishment was afterwards COM
| mu'ed 10 fine to be paid TO the owner Of the hog
Of 1000 HIS. of tobacco, and 1000 lbs 10 the nformer
In case Of NAB lily 10 pay, the offender was to @rre
the owner of the hog one year and the nformcr ano
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without ears, % DC proceeded against as a hog
| acaicr.+ In 1914, the Indians were ordered to put
such a mark on their hogs, as the county courts
should direc, and that Indian proof was in future
to he GOOD against Indians, TO convict them the
act ags,ns hog stealing IN 1919 these laws net
be ng sufficient it was enacted that any one taken
third time stealing hogs, should be tried by the laws
of England, as Ia Of felony.
| We are now almost in the middle of the nine
teen'h century; every man who has got home
can live under his own vine and fs-'rcc secure in
his posse sions, fearing no violence and not I'M
der the necessity of intending any 10 others; still
The sows pig in the woods still the unhappy shoats
hat have survived one winter, running, three
quarters legged up and down the woods, hunting
and screaming for the mast that did not happen to
grow this year some with their ears no'chcd on
one side some on both, some quarter clipped Oft,
some half some withou; cars as If they had stood
in the pory Then comes November, that hog
uotting monh 10 The small farmer.
" t!ove YOU seen my old White sow +
al emit say have
" VIII, they telled me she was seen at your place
abe Ut harvest time
"Why there was strange SOW roofing IN my
sweet roto,oes in August and what marks had
she 7"
I" Her left ear roed off last winter, and she mad
a considerable cash in the RICH one.
All, guess that was not your sow then, Tor
this had lost both her ears and had seven shoats,
mighty bad varmint oil of tfcm for squeezing
through the rails"
"Well then that aras my sow, for when she
los, her left car she looked so much like Jun Gar
pentc,' s, that cut bother carroll too IN March
last. when she had six good shoas and runt with
he's"
DWELL | don't know where she is, know MOTH
ing about your hogs, Here Paul, calling ms
black MANI {" have you seen Mr.. Smiths hogs
No masser nehber see him since we turn MIN
out Of " iao patch
Now Paul being leading man IN The chufcn'
MIR. Smith had nothing left for 1t but TO peue'e
him (; and as soon as his master went 10 INC "ouso'
having high opinion of PauPs stock OF veraeny'
he tho't he would purchase some of HIM, ana 'ah,s
him, 10 the edge of the woods, he SAID, " Paul E"
believe wha, you say, and here's quarter u y ',
will tell me the truth Where's tie hogs now II
never say you told me-
We'll den massa, dc fac is, de SOW ana DC run,
is in the old field by de branch al Mr. JinK'n s.
seed EN- day before yesterday. bnt where uc oue'
shotes is dat is, umpossumel TO tell"
Will YOU help me TO drive 'em home ;,
uu AMI not possummcl 10 drive ncider OF en- ua'
is de fac for de iunt have lost oo.e w 'os
feet. and old sow have he leg broke" wen 10"
who the devil has done this T.
al think he is possumel masser somebody nv
buck shot nj en- Old sow masser ana az ~
.ho,os w,c an mischicvous ard thin, anu So "'"
orv ore Is M fence to stand EN-. BY goIy' neo-
er see de like. he turn him on his sde ana Squ'e~'
him ,bronob dc fence lis as a par longs
a. ~ 80 Internal set of devils as ever ilVe".