The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-11-28
A JUDICIAL DECISION ON HOGS.
A learned and Valuable Disquisition upon
Swine Generaliy--Native Stock Included.

A Learned and Valuable Disquisition upon
Swine Generaliy--Native Stock Included.
The following report to the State .Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical Society will be
read with interest and profit:
COLUMBIA, s. c., Nov. ii, 1878.
TO the Hon. b. +. Crdyton. President Of
Slate Agricuiturai and Mechanical So
ciety Columbia
The Committee on Swine for the Tenth
Annual Fair of the State Agricultural
and Mechanical Society beg leave to re-
port that they found on exhibition thirty
six head of all ages embraced in the sec
ond, third, fifth, sixth and seventh
classes, of which eleven were Essex,
eight Berkshire, eight Chester Whites,
six graded, being crosses of the Poland
China on the Berkshire, or cross of Po-
land China on common native stock, and
three full blood Poland China. There
were eleven exhibitors of swine. No
hog was exhibited of the first or fourth
class--that is Suffolk and Grazier, nor of
the Lincoln, Yorkshire or Litchtield
breeds. We deem it just to make special
mention, in addition to the premiums
awarded. of the Poland China boar, age
l6 months, estimated gross weight 800
pounds, exhibited by Mr.. p. H. Koon, of
Laurens, and the grade boar exhibited
by Mr.. o. +. Chappell, of Fairfield, %
years, estimated weight, gross, 600
pounds and also the Berkshire boar and
sow, year old, exhibited by Mi. j. III.
Crawford, Of Richland, estimated weight
360 pounds each.
These last present the most perfect
type of the Berkshire hog, and may well
be exhibited as faultless specimens of
their excellent breed. Two grade pigs
six weeks old, boar and SOW, exhibited
by n. c. Robertson, a citizen and thrifty
farmer of Fairfield County, also deserve
special mention. They were cross of
tho Poland China boar on the native SOW,
presenting marked traces of the former,
and weighed about 25 pounds each.
| While your committee recognize with
satisfaction the commendnble effort dis
PLAYED in the introduction and culture of
thorough bred and high grade swine of
the most improved breeds, yielding the
largest weight of meat and lard in pro-
portion to the amount of food, which is
the trne economic principle in raising
edible stock, they profoundly regret that
no specimen of our native stock was
placed on exhibition.
we held It :a:rc--!.a.3:. :;r chronological
reasons, that the native hog of South
| Carolina should be widely cultivated.
He is TO our people the monumental hog,
and around him cluster the traditions OF
two evcntful centuries. Older than the
constitution of the United States, he
alone seems unaffected seriously by its
amendments" Roaming at will through
our far reaching swamps and over our
homestead hills in the days of 1776, the
bold infantry of stout CORVALLIS grew
faint while following the fleet career oi
this extraordinary pachyderms, and he
dstanccd with triumphant grunt even
the enterprising cavalry of the fiery Tar
, Teton. lie is absolutely unchanged and
, Interchangeable. He can neither bt
starved nor fattcncd, and is really the
OILY one of our domcsticated animals
, which has always worked for his living
For him "eternal vigilance is the pric,
of liberty" and he cannot be taken b,
surprise, while the predatory rover VIII
r essays to pursue him soon learns in dee
disgust the race is to the swift in tn
l case of this marvellous hag.
9 "With his long gallop which can tire,
, The hounds deep hate. the hunters ire.
For his owner, he is light weight, it
:, true, but then he is sure meat. The IA
; hog, on the contrary, is perpetual haz
l ard and q constant provocative of larceny
=, He is unable to deal with the only recog
r nized race issue in this State, of which
he is the frequent, because the easy vic
: tim. On the other hand, the native self
preserving hog appreciates "the situa
} tion," and is q law unto himself relying
5 moi upon statutes bnt on speed for BIZ
, protection. 1t is time, therefore, that W;
should return to the original principle
on which the fathers founded our smok,
, houses, and that the fattest hog of foreigl
extraction should no longer be regarded
us superior for practical purposes to th'
} fastest swine Of native growth, each on,
Of which yields the farmer "forty pound
of meat n year." and thus tends great,
to reduce the amount of money which w
} daily export from this State for bacon
amounting to nearly $7,000,000 per an
nun. Respectfully submitted,
T. ]. MACKEY, Chairman.