Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-15

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God that the Jews were denied the use Of
pork, because, seeing how depraved they
were without that Wand, he trembled at
the consequences of allowing them pork.
and so superadding the evil in the hog to
that in the Hebrew. Moreover, Esop,
IN the childhood of Greece, had tabled
that pig squeals when'you catch him be-
cause he knows he cannot carry you like
the horse, or clothe you like the sheep, or
yield you milk like the cow-and SO feels
guilty. Again, so fierce were medieval
hunters in chasing wild bears, that the
priests could only curb them by teaching
that any man killed in that chase must
burn in purgatory a hundred years longer
than if he died in any other way. Nor
ia the German superstition yet extinct
which maintains that if, in going to pay
a visit, you meet hog, you will not
prove a welcome guest. Moreover, hogs
are slanderously compared to misers, be-
cause both are good for nothing as long
as they live, but, after all, both cut up
we'll.
In addition to the multitudinous profits
which Yankees extract from swine, !
have seen their skins in Spain preferred
to all other wine caskets. Other winners
speak fguratively of wine in "hogsheads,"
but Spaniards ego the whole hog" with
out metaphor, and fill him with grape
Juice fuller than he ever fills himself with
swill. The legs are good handles for lift
ing no cask is so convenient for trans
portation on pack-horses, and in most
parts of Spain nothing is carried on
wheels.
Abominated all his life, the hog cuts up
we'll. What illustration so vivid of the
strange power death has to transform
aversion to affection. See Celestials
proof against the seductions to Islamisn,
because it forbids pork; see the German
with bologna on the brain, so that in
Rome he mistake the coils of the anacon-
-da that entwine LAGOON for links in
chain of sausagRs; see Yankees hostile TO
yours society for the conversion of Jews,
because you would thus raise the price of
pork.
It used to be supposed that porkers
would fulfill their mission while rowing
at will as the scavengers of Cincinnati, or
turning over kingcrabs at lew tide on
New Jersey shores, or creeping through a
hollow log into neighbours garden. Now
another creed has come into vogue. Ideas
suited to ages when men either feasted on
pork where it was fattened, or tasted from
it altogether, are obsolete now that live
hogs cross continents, and dead ones cir
Gle the globe. Hence new fattening pro-
cesses are struck ont. A Mexican when
he has fed his bristly herd to the full,
employs a fiddler or other musician to
play soothing airs and beguile them into
speedy slumber. On the other hand, an
English farmer who, year after year,
gained the county prize for the latest
hog, and who kept his process secret,
was detected after fatted swine had lain
down gorged, and would eat no more, let
ting in a half starved pig. The bigger
beast was SO hoggish that be waddled to
his trough again, pushed away the puny
interloper, and, 30 long as the swill
| lasted,
"Bore, like the Turk, no brother near the throne,
After all there is no hog-feeding more
scientific than that in Iowa and Nebraska
to-day. The Sourthen portions are the
special paradise of hog fatteners. There
hog and hominy rejoice together as in
their cangenial element. Corn crops are
sure and stupendous, cattle need no shell
ter except the brush and banks of wind
fall as crumbs from his feeding-box, or TO
| look and digest corn enough to increase
the weight of two hogs at the most rapid
rate. Thus the cattle dealer gets the feed
of his hogs free of all cost, for those vora-
tious scsvangers, besides following the
beeves, gather up all fragments and let
nothing be lost.
Even at the heel Of letter there is
room for statistics which show in nut
she'll where the pork in many an eastern
market comes from. The Burlington and
Missouri railroad, the most southern OF
Iowa lines, in a year when it was only
half done, carried eastward 1862, OFT hogs,
upwards OF 10000 more than any other Of
the seven roads on which Iowan exports
90 abroad. It now frequently moves
1900 swine in day, and shipped 81 cars
full of them in sixty days from Vlllisca
a hamlet, half the land all around which
was one year ago railroad grant not ye'
brought into market, although much Of
it is now sold Not long ago Schemes
and Butler was disputing, in Congress
whether the tariff on jute butts does mol
hinder Western farmers from bsggine
their corn. Iowa members ought to have
ended the strife by teaching those fight
ing cocks that, beyond the Mississippi, NJ
farmer needs to import bagging, for every
one knows that the best corn sacks arr
made out of oxhide, or, rather, of hog
skin. Hog and hominy here rejoice to
gether as in a we'll matched marriage.
SYBoTEs.