Nebraska advertiser., 1857-01-15
:farnlers' 4eparturert.
ii2F From the Rural EeW-Yorker.
HOGs:.-TBEIR CHARACTER AND MANAGE
PIP MKKT.


PIP MKET.
tits with hogs as with sundry great
and coed people-tEey are not appre-
ciated till after they are dead! Then
even fastidious persons have liking
for them. Kicked and cursed through
life and uncharitably ranked along
with, the most obstinate and sensual Of
all men, they all at once, their end
having come, receive a warm welcome
at the gay, festive board, and in the
humblest mansions Of the poor.
The Posthatmous fame Of the hog.
viii take care of itself. / stand here,
my countrymen, to defend him while
yet alive; to do him honor, when honor
may profit him somewhat. I carry
the war into the enemy's country, and
| charge my clients bad moral, char
acters, (for I am forced to admit that
even hogs have their peccadilIos,) upon
unfortunate relations with bad men,
Col. Long, Of Livingston Co., and
Col. Morris, are both gentlemen; they
treat their SStfoEEs well, and if I am
correctly advised, they estimate them
highly. IF a man wrongs you, be
assured he win traduce and Yilify YOU
also.
We pity the poor Israelites who
were required to make @brick without
straw -4-but a BERKSHIRE, out Of the
stayest material is requiredto manufac-
ture most sagory morseIs; from the
odds and ends of all things he is ex-
peeted to grease the wheels Of society.
What are his faults? ''Clamorous, OBJ
stinate, always, in the. way, and always
in mischief" That's a a.tie-holdEI
forgot; / thought I was talking poll
ticsi I mean, tstrts mistake. / saw
Col. Sherwood's pigs, chow the c0tOnels
do run to swine, at Elnira last year
and in the frame of mind they were
then in, I doubt if they would go ten
feet out Of their way for the best plum
pudding that ever graced the table Of
royalty. Why, one of them actually
refused to get up at the request
Of am admiring beyy of ladies, and
shortly after went to sleep in the
middleof d grunt. FThey sqlteQZ, and
are always getting into mischief
That's their misfortune, and not their
crime--that's the breed with bristles,
snouts and legs, that Tan the gauntlet
for a living. They don't belong to
any of the ColoneIs--their eVer-present
inquiry is, like that of a great orator,
twhere shall / go?'' Rover gives them
a bite on one side,. and John pummels
them with sticks and stones on the
other, while Dorothy salutes them with
basin of hot water. IF they pass
through hole in the corn field, that's
an ofense; if they takea walk into
the garden, the cellar, or the kitchen,
in search Of food, and in obedience to
sTthe first law Of nature, self-preser-
yation,''' that's a crime! Pray, where
would yeu have hungry creature go?
Where there is food, Of course. Give
them food, secure them In the enjoy
ment7 of their just rights, and they
become peaceable, laW-abiding citizens.
Would you have them pusillanimously
crouch under oppression, wrong and
outraged" Trs ~ r9H1 aoa6
isPll tell you about my hogs. For
the last year there has been no stain
upon their character. they have lived
down all opposition, and made theme
selpes glertensively useful. The other
day I pointed Mr.. Lyman Brainard, Of
Attica, and some other friends, to a
elump Of apples trees which were
loaded with fruit, while the surround-
ing trees bore very few.oIgThe season
had been eaprfcieus." Not SOIL had
enclosed those fruitful trees with a
fense summer before last, and within
said enclosure I kept my hogs during
three or four months, before the weather
became very cold, and all the while
they had dry, warm bed They took
whatever apples fell from the trees in
the enclosure, and had, in addition.
the soft and ripe apples that feHin the
remainder ofthe orchard, not enclosed
In this way all the apples were saved
andwe had great abundance, and q
dozen apple trees rere diiqqed GBOse
and dangsd in the most thorougl
manner resulting IN an abundant
crop of apples this year, where apples
don't grow on every bush. The sam,
plan ! have pursued before Eael
year I shift the fence toa new place
and 50 manure and cultivate aneY
plot of ground, and in every case
have seen a marked improvement il
the trees that were honored BY the at.
tentions Of the swine. Hogs, wheI
freely supplied with apples, need LITTLE
or no water, and good breed Of hog
will gr0aO upon raw apples and beeoml
so near fat a novice would scarce know
| the difference. In this region o
country we cannot afford to feed cor
to hogs unless it is ground and bOile,