Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-04-23
From HHllIh AID H0Hltf
PORK as AN ARTICLE OF FOOD.

From Hearth and Home
PORK as AN ARTICLE OF FOOD.
There are often to be found in the
muscles or lean part of pork quite
small. whf6Ish. ovakspOtss which, when
very numerous, give rise to the appear
ance known as H3edSD PORK. Inese
spots are from an Eighth to nail an inch
long, and consist OF a cyst or CAVITY,
formed usually between The Wuscnlar
hbres and filled with a whitish fluid.
In the cyst viii be found q thin, MEM
branous bag, filed sWtth1Iqald ana con
tanning the inVeUfe ed mead OF y young
taDe-worm. which. by gentle pressure,
may be mace TO protrude from one side.
Examined with a microscope, the head
is seen to have four suckeF-like organs
on the sides and a small proboscis on
the top, surrounded by a double circle
Of small, sharp hooks. The neck IS
slender aud composed of several joints,
and terminates in the rounded fbag of
fluid.
If such pork be eaten raw or imper-
fectIy cooked (for they can stand half
cookingl the meat will be digested, and
the Young worms thus liberated are
ready to commence a more active life.
Thew soon lose the terminal bag of
fold, and passing into the intestine, FIX
their sharp hooks inaits soft lining
membrane. In the Intestine they are
surrounded by the highly nutritious
fluid fchyle) which has been produced
by digestion, and prepared for absorp-
tion into the human circulation. This
fluid is freely fnibibed by the worm,
and though it has no stomach of its
own, it is not strange that it grows
rapidly, for it has a human stomach to
digest its food In growing, the joints
of the body rapidly increase in number
and size, those tOWaTd the head being
always small and immature, while the
posterior ones are large and broad.
When full grown, the worm may be
twenty or thirty feet long, with several
thousand joints, the largest nearly half
an inch broad. Should the whole body
be broken of, the head has the power
of rapidly forming another.
In the museum of Yale College there
is a speeimen imperfect at both ends,
which is thirty-ohe feet long. It was
raised in New Haven. The body is
white and quite hat, WITH long tu3e or
canal running in each edge hrough the
whole length, and connected together
in each Joint by cross tubes. Each joint
has also male and female organs Of its
own The oVaries are large, and very
much b~ranched, filling the greater part
of each mature joint, ahd dlschargsIhe
eggs through an 0pening iHfhe middle
Of One edge, where they are met by the
duid from the male organ and fertilized.
These joints are naturally dropped of
md discharged when mature, either
singlY oFin chains and, what is very
remarkable, each n has the power of
maintaining an Independent existence
and motion for some time. They can
even crawl some distance, and one is
said to have been seen TO climb up a
perDendfcular wall four feet high. At
anyFate, they live long enough TO ma
ture the thousands OF c2gs contained in
each. while new joints are continually
produced by the parent worm, to be
discharged in turn.
Of course. very few out of the mil
lions of anrorG TINS nv one
worm are ever Matched, for to pc
Matched they must be. taken into the
stomach of the hog or some other AMI
NAL. But owing to the instincts OF
hogsgRnd the way in which they are
keptythey are usually the animals that
dO-this kind of Matching. Vel oven
man bimseIf by accidentally swallow
ing the eggs, often becomes infested
Withth8 Young worms, aud his muscles
become Tmeasly." The eggs must, in
all cases, be derived, directly or indi-
Fectly, from manure, and may, there
fore, be eaten with uncoOked vegetables
and fruit. Although fu~Il-grown hogs
hatch the Eggs they are not liable to
become infected by the measles" But
when q pig swallows the eggs, or the
whole Joints filed with them, they very
quickly hatch in his stomach into
minute worms, which eat their way
through the walls of the stomach or in
testtne, and entering b blood vessels,
may be carried to all parts of the body
but most of them lodge in the muscles,
and especially in the hams. They have
also been found quite otter in the liver,
lungs, heart, and brain, both of pigs
inc man, sometimes in large numbers.
Within a few years sixty cases OfyOunW
tape-Worms in the human eye were OBJ
served at Berlin, Unless hese be ex-
tracteds they generally destroy the
sight. Having finally lodged, the
young worms grow rapidly, and IL
among muscles, a cyst or cavity forms
around them, and finally the appear
ance of measly pork is again produced.
this state the young worms quietly
wait to be swallowed by some friendly
pork-eater, that they may in turn 90
through the same changes.
Tt has been estimated that there are
eggs enough in the joints of an ordin-
airy tape-Worm to infect four pigs with
twelve thousand measles each, should
they all hatch. Pigs having but few
measles show no symptoms of them
while living, butWhen there are large
numbers they interfere with the growth,
and produce symptoms that may be
easily recognized.
In this peculiar young state theyMere
formerly supposed to be a species of
worm entirely distinct from the tape
worm, and were named CTYstceTeltS
ceHUI0SOg. Within a few years many
experiments have been made by feed
ing pigs with tape-w0Fm and men with
measly pork. In all Theses cases. the
eggs ot tape-Worms produced me9sly
pork, and measly pork produced tape
worms in corresponding numbers.
In Austria and some other countries.
another species of tape-worm, without
hooks, IS derived from measles in beef,
especially veal bUt in this country, the
beef tape-Worm is very rare.
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WILL SORGHUM CULTURE pa.
some one asks the Wester1 Ra.ar
whether it will pay to raise Sorghum?
That paper gives the following figures
in reply:
psa aDrs 9
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flantlng and aa..s.s.,o 3 %
aul1ng M
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