Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-21

for Csc apiece. Later adyiccs, however, are
more fayorable.-San Francisco R4tletun,
Nov. Esd.
A GOOD WORD FOR THE HOG.
He is one of the pachydermatous or thick
skinned animals, of which the existing gen
era are the elephant, the rhinoceros, the
~hippopotamus, the hyrax, the tapir, the hog.
The elephant, which once spread its count
hess herds to the polar regions, is now con-
fined to the woods of the tropics ; the rli-
noceros, yet more rare, is limited to the hot
test regions of India and Africa; the hippo
potamus, one Of the hugest of Ewing, quad
rupeds, is c~onA1ned to the larger rivers of
Africa the tapir merely fingers in some OF
the forests of inter-tropical countries; but
the hog survives the revolutions Of count
less ages, and is reproduced in countless
maltitudes in every region on the earth.
However groveling and mean may ap~
pear his habits when reduced to the deg
relation of slavery, yet he is not destitute Of
sagacity, nor unsnsceptible OF attachment.
When he lives in the cabin of the peasant, he
loses much Of his rudeness, suffers himself
to be carressed, and recognizes his proteo-
| tors. Instances are known in which the
hog, for the purposes of exhibition, has
| been brought to perform a number of feats,
! displaying a marvellous degree of docility.
Intractable, rapacious, and selfish, as we
are wont to esteem this animal, no mother
is more tender OF her young or more reso-
Lutte in their defence. Hogs are not insen-
sible TO natural affections (; they are greega-
rious and social, warming one another with
their bodies IN cold weather; and when as
sembled in herds. manifesting the almost
sympathy for one anothe9>s suffcrings.
Shoald one give signal of distress, all within
hearing rush to his assistance; they gather
rousad their comrade and fiercely assail the
largest animals that nave injured him. In
Calahria, where they are grazed in herds,
the keeper uses a kind of bagplpe, which,
when at sunset they are to be driven home
ward, Instantly collects them from albparts.
In certain villages there is a common swine
herd; in the morning when he sounds his
horn, all the pigs rush forth and follow him
to the place. of feeding in the evening they
return nnder~his guidance, and when. they
enter the village each runs to his own sty
without mistake.
In some ofthe Southern United States, it
is usual to turn the pigs into the woods, but
collect them together once a week, by CIV
ing them salt and maize, or other fovorite
food. At the very hour they are to receive
their weekly present, they reasonable from
all parts, without as straggler. They have
the sagacity always to discover the food
that suits them, never being, like some 9th.
er animals whose senses are blunted by do
mestication, poisoned by the plants they
findin the wild state. Their exauisite-senses
of smell and touch direct themsto earthnuts
andtother roots. acorns, and the like, which
are found buried in the ground. .Ehey are
conscious of an impending storm, and carry
straw as if to shelter themselves FROM its vi
olence. They are agitateds when the WING
blows violently, screaming and running tx
the sty for shelter, which has given rise tt
this singular saying, of the country people
that "pigs see the, wind" The explana
ton is that the hog breads wet and cold
and is e%ninently sensitive to coming change
of the weather.-Rref Lou IN Nationa
Lipc-Stock Jousasal.-
Mr. Il. E.. Wood, of Boyle ceunty, KY.
shipped recently, forNew York, fifteen car
t loads of fat cattle, purchased in Boyle an'
Garrard counties. Fifty head averageas l,
5 627 lbs, anu the balance 1,57Sibs. each.