, 1874-03-21
THE FIELD AND STABLE.

Fork nS an Article OF nnt1innn FOODS
Pigs Much Iyctter tllna Their Klcptr-
tnti0n-.rigss MS a Race, Possess
GREAT Vitality, and Hnnvo Little
Tendency to Become Discnscd--Tho
Great Usefulness of pigs..ptu- Pens.
Front Our 0ica Correspondent
MANHATTAN, Kan., March 10, 1874,
PORK AB AN ARTICLE OF HUMAN FOOD,
just now, Hoveral lecturers and writors try
hard to mako poop1o believe that pork is not
proper artioo OF human food. They arguo-at
least some Of thom-in very peculiar manner.
Ono, for instance,-who, by the way, ia better
vorsed in theological loro and In the nnciont
languages, but especially in tlo otymology OF
words, than in physiology and hygiene, and in
natural sciences in gsnoral,-says pork should
not be eaton, and is not fit to cut for American
people, for throo reasons: First, 1t stands in the
Dib1o TINT pork has heon or is forbidden to tho
Jews, bccauso it is unclean, ard comes from a
s'hog;" secondly, biologists cali our domesti-
cated porhor "sl1s Hcrofa, ,"-theroforo tho eating
of pork Causes scrofula; and, thirdly pork. which
ho delights IN calling " blubber," 10 nothing but
carbon, md carbon ia-is something very terri
bic. Hence he comes to tito conclusion that 1t
is q crime committed OH mankind to raBo pigs.
Another ono trios to aoaro tho people with
noaslcs (of pigs) aud with trichna spiralis and
another ono charges pigs with flltl,fuosH, with
heing auhjact to akin-diaoasos, aud to-Aog-
cholora. Still another COCA 30 far as to say that
pigR aro possessed by deyils einco Christ par-
m1tted legion to pass into hord Of swine. But
enough; lot them talk, and lot them write. II wo
examine the caso from an impartial and unbi-
aacd standpoint, and dlvcRt all that has beon
said against pork and porlsors from everything
that in imaginary or not true, and take the
fanat,csm, tho idiosyncraeies, and tho ignorance
of thoso lecturers and writer's for simply
Tint what thoy deserve, we shall find.
first, that pork is not a contemplate, useless,
unwloleaome, alsd ,lnsustautial food; and u
man WHO llaB to do hard days work, aud has
to eat his broad in the sweat Of his face" docs
by no moanB desplae it, but prefers it very ofton
to tho choicost beof or mutton. This is but nat
urat, for pork furnishes, more almost tbnn any
thing olse. not only tho clements required to
support tho respiratory proccaa, but alao those
which arc principally needed by THO organism OF
q laboring nlan to repair tho continual organic
waste Of material, as modified mud Increased by
hard labor. It In true, pork can he too fat, or
DO too badly aeryod or prepared by tho cook to
DO TASTY, even to the patato Of laboring man
as chi bo found out very easily in certain board
ing ghouaos. Mother is pork worry ,lnsubstantinl
nm article OF food as Rome Of those writer's mud
looturora aro anxious to make ns believo. Whi1e
ING DG0y OF Hlulpat afGIf otlGE uOIEGBLIGnLcu
mammal contains botwecn &C aud ~ per cent Of
water, the body OF fat pig contained, according
to analyses made In Tho Royal Agricultural Col
lcge at Eltsona, in Prussia, only 45.3 ror con:
aud the remainder, tho watcr-frce substance,
contained 2o.1 per cent Of Proteino substances.
TIL per cent Of fat, and s por cont Of mineral
substances. It IL true pork is not so rich III
nitrogen as beef. for instance; but 1t is not
nitrogen a1ono that is required In tho food.
Pork, of courAo, Is not always Of tho Baun
f3rn1rnHH md
respectively, dopond, first upon tho breed OF tho
animal, and secondly upon tho kind of food with
which tho same has boon fattaned. As general
; 1S tho 1n small mall breeds Gs;a Of IL hogs e9t espo-
pigs, and the pigs Of Naples, and thoir dosconl-
anta, have much softer pork tEian tho larger
breeds Of England and Of Central Europe and
thoir. descendants. Tho so-callod improved
loal OF muscle, if tho salno have comparatively
but little blood Of the small hroods Of a South
ern climate; and prodnco a soft and oily pork,
II the same have but lttlo, or scarcely any.
Europe. The f<od also carses considerable Diff
forencea in tho quality Of tho pork. Barley pro-
duccs the tirmest and most solid pork, and oats
produce the aofteat, t,-oyon softer and moro oily
than TINT produced BY feeding corn. Tic fat q
fattoned with oats at 1004 dog. r. rio
former, when fluid, stifons III ono hour at tom,
porAture Of 69t dog En- and the Inter III six hours
at temperature Of 75.2 deg, ?. Consequently,
pig OF q lntgo breed, and must fattnan 1t with
barley; aud ono who desires his pork soft may
select q ANAL hrood, and fatton tho same with
corn or with oats.
OF much aalt (chlorido Of sodium ia injurious to
pigs, aud intorforea with their growth and with
the process Of fattoninG. Investigating further,
We shall fnd aocondly. That
and hnve done, and aro tlolug much moro for
mankind than mankind has dono asld IL doing.
for them. First, thero If no domeaticated aufmal
Tint is, as general ru'o 10 much neglected
by its owner, and loft to ita own RESOURCES be-
foro It is fattened for tile sl,asnb1es, M pig;
and Btill, there iB no otpr animal that converts
iB food 40 soon into food for human beings.
Secondly, Iig IL MI omntvorons anlnal; that is,
can feed and tfIriyo OIL btth animal and yogeta-
bio substances; Ia not worry particular, and con-
tho table. from the dairy, and from tho kitchen
md garden, which cal1 scarcely he utilized In
any other way, with which it calls tho grain Of
tue tleld. tho grass md clover Of tho pasture,
a'y family can raiHo and fattcn ono or two ptga
with scarcely any expense whatever. Thirdly,
! piga arc accused Of being dirty and filthy,
a@d n's fond f. samn Of wslloTng In tho AL mud;
our domestic animals keeps its stall and tts bod
ding az cloan as pig provided tho latter B not
| compelled by tho caroleaBteBa or by the lgno-
ruuce Of lta owner to sleep and to depoaIt ita az
c1omonts at tito samo placo, hut ls provided with
good, dry, warm, oll-li!toroA anl wcll-vonti-
lAto pen to sleepln, and will, a yard which it
ttlora In no animal thut 1t ~ more fond Of boiug
brushed r'ilbat, washed and pottod. Or TINT on.
joys good bath In cloau freall, and cool water
Us much as tlocs pig, especially In tho summer,
when daily batll IL 10 ESSENTIAL to tl,o hoaIth OF
the animal A pig takeh hath In . mud pool
only wlol, no otier opportunity Is loft.
plaH, Az A RACE, POSSESS dnEAr VITALITY, AND
HAVE LITTLE TENDENCY TO BECOME pIsnAsED,
Tign not only aro among the earliest don,es-
,nun loug bofore tho historic oya, but tho sa,uo
| bolol,y also to II claBs al al.nals-tbe paol,yd
crmntu-tint han been III oxispnco Elllch carlior