Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-10-11

The "Hog committee" of the Norfolk
{ (Massachusetts) Agricultural Society
thus diseources on Swine:
The hog is grave animal. Your
committee are grave men, and the sub
ject of pork is a solemn one; and in these
alarming times, when the olive tree in
Europe and the sperm whale in the
ocean are becoming scarce, and our
whalers are getting lazy or discouraged,
and we are likely to be deprived of all
such ofcastnous matarial, there is much
in the hog to interest mankind-much
matter, which judiciously used and
fairly tried, wills pour flood of light on
y benightcd world
In tender infancy the pig is regarded
with Kindness, and deseryedly receives
many marks of affection. Indeed this
can hardly be otherwise, there is so much
about him to win our confidence and
elicit our admiration. Look at him
while still requiring the care and pro-
lection of his maternal parent, and rap
idly ripening for the spit. Is there any
object in nature or art more beautiful or
interesting? His countenance how ex-
pressive! his features how striking!-
His figure how plump and transparent!
The twinkle Of his eyes, how rogueish!
The fexibility of his snout how wonder
full!
The young pig is type Of finnocence
and happiness. His voice is penetrating
and highly musical-insomuch that the
ehromatic scale took its rise from the
melodious sounds which proceeded from
the CLOTHS of this interesting quadruped,
when impatient for his food And it is
an undoubted fact that Hog g-arth adopted
The curyilinear line of beauty, after
studying the light and graceful twist
in the tail of a frisky young porker.
As the pig grows older he becomes
more sedate. He looses the delicacy of
bis proportions and the simplicity Of his
manners. lie is no longer difident and
deferential. The graceful kink in his
tail in most cases disappears, and the
matured hog, with long head, and in
dication of wisdom, and voice ranging
from the deepest bass to the highest
trebel, stands revealed in all his dignity
and grandeur!
That the hog has SOME wea Eness, your
Committee are prepared to admit, but
they are more than counterbalanced by
his virtues. In Cincinnati, and other +
pork cities Of the west, the noble quail
ties Of the hog are acknowledged. The
people bave studied his character, bear
witness Of his worth, and almost identify
him with the human species. It is even
said that the children in Cincinnati learn
to squeal, before they begin to talk; and
one Of the editors, when the question of
prohibiting hogs from perambulating
the streets was brought before the City
Council; manifested great indignation.
"It is" said he, "a violation of our
dearest personal privileges -
A learned pundit has happily re-
marked, that if brains be the measure
of intellect, as phrenologists assert, a
hog must be the wisest Of created ami
mails, for the smallest aad most insig-
nj Gca Mt of the Tace can boast of hogs
head full OF brains, at the very least!
And this may be the reason why Martin
I4uther, the reformer, whenever he was
troubled with '6t of the blues, would
rush out among the pigs, and hold with
those intellectual animals, on his part a
silent conversation. Their happy coun-
tenances, vocal rejoicings, and good-n
tured grunts, exercised soothing infu,
ence on the spirits of this learned thes
ologian, and soon restored his mind to, it;
Honted vigor.