Litchfield enquirer., 1847-12-30

l
 con Family" It has pith equal to the Massachusetts Agricultural Reports:
 COMMIT ON SWINE.
 The we'll chusen chairman of the com mittee "n swine, Mir. George Bacon, comes up missing, nr rather. should say. he de- cl'neA to serve in that capacity, for the req son, suppose, that he is too modest to say what ought to be said in praise of the "Ba> con Family" have been elected in Mir. Bacon's stead, to represent the pigs of Lo. rain in ;his assemtiy-an though feel | myself unqualified for the important. sia- .ion, assure you am very prou'l of my constituents. My friend, Dr. Hubbard, here will probably say something of this kind, only "great deal more so," in case he gets elected next week, to represent the people of Lorain in Columbus the coming winter. Should he do this, his design, you know, would he 10 soap you little-but as nobody would think of soapinga pig, fshall get credit, trust, for perfect sincerity.- Pigs, gentlemen, at the present day are poor ly appreciated. Feeling this, am prompt cd to offer worl or two in lheir behalf.
 Some people cali hogs loafers. because they do not perform manual labor. But nobody ought to expect hand work of pig, particularly when there are other kinds of work for which he is better adapted. Some 1 body must do head work-but it is not pigs we want for this-there are pigs enough at head work already. It is stomach work we I want ofpigs-we need them 10 convert our corn, potatoes, and such like raw materials, into articles of higher market value At tn kind of work, hogs cant he beat No, l gentlemen, pigs are not loafers-on the con trary, they are among the most productive of all the producing classes. I need not ask where we get our pork, our ham, our bacon, or where the ladies get their lard, or honorable Congressmen their sausagrs, or | honest saddlerS their leather, or brushma> I kers their hriStles, or where we get the oil that turns darkness into day in all our dwel> lings, or for the beacon light to guide the tempest>iossed mariner into port. All these things, and many more, come from the Bacon Family" In short, every inch of | them is made 10 contribute in some way 10 ihe general good, with perhaps Inc trfing lx, nctr tn1s so thn EtS lyria Natural History Society, s lhatyou cannot make a wk islle out of pigs tail, no how you can fix it." ...st
 Again: Some folks accuse pigs of being filthy in their habits; ant negligent in their personal appearance. But whether food is best eaten of the ground or from China plates, is, il seems to me, merely matter of taste aud convenience, about which pigs ind men may honestly differ. They ought, then, to be judged charitably. fat any rate, pigs are not filthy enough to chew tobacco, nor | to poisen their breath by drinking whiskey And as to their personal appearance, you l don't catch pig playing the dandy, BOT the females among them picking their way | up this mnddy village, after rain, in kid l slippers. But must confess that swine, in their notions of medicine, are not strictly oribo. dox. To be sure, they do not like the hot water and seam practice, never submitting l th it quietly until il is all over with them But neither do they approve of the bleeding and hlis,ering operations of the regular practitioners. Surgery, too, they do no, go for, having in particular mortal amipaihy 10 operations about the throat. The truth is. hogs show decided preference for hy> dropathy this they ofien go the " whole hog" and if what history says of certain old BladuG be true, to them belongs all the glory of discovering the "water cure" sys. tenn.
 l Notwithstanding their heterodox notions. hogs have some excellent traits of character If one chances io wallow little deeper in l some mire hole than his fellows, and SD car ries of and comes in possession of more oi I this earth than his brethren. he never as sumes an extra importance on that account neither are his brethren stnpd euough 10 l worship him for 1t Their only question seems to be, is he still a hog If he is, they treat him as such. .....r.
 And when hog has no merit of lis own, he never puts on aristocra.ic airs. or claims any particular respect on account Of his family ecnuections-and yet some Hogs
 have descended from very ancient families
 They und, r>,and full well the common
 sense maxim, aevery tub must stand upon
 it's own bo:iom.''
 Another remarkable fact, which ! cannot in justice to my constituents omit to mem
 tioD, is, that pigs are totally devoid Of all prejudice against color. With them. white pigs, sandy pigs. spotted pigs, or black pgs, alT stauA rD,,c a u nooai Eo.,tinD The g0Ot