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 cGenerally-Natire Stock Included.

| A Learned and Valuable Disquisition upon
Swine GeneraIly-Natiro Stock Included.
The following report to the State Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical Society will be
read with interest and profit:
COLUMBIA, S. c., Nov. IA, 1878.
To the Hon. B. +. Crayton, President Of
State Agricultural and Mechdnical So
cicty, C6lumbia::
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 Litchfeld
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 500
pounds, exhibited by Mr.. P. II. Koon, of
Laurens. and the grade boar exhibited
by Mr.. o. L. Chappcll, of Fairfield, q
years, estimated weight, gross, GOO
pounds; and also the Berkshire boar and
SOW, l wear old, exhibited by Mr.. j. NJ.
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. G.. Robertson, citizen and thrifty
farmer of Fairfield County, also deserve
special mention. They were cross OF
the 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 commendable effort dis
PLAYED in the introduction and culture of
thoroughbred 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 true economic principle in raising
edible stock, they profoundly regret that
no specimen of our native stock was
placed on exhibition.
We hold it important for 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 eventful 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 OF
this extraordinary pachyderms, and he
distanccd with triumphant grunt even
the enterprising cavalry of the fiery Tar.
Teton. lie is absolutely unchanged and
unchangcable. He can neither be
starved nor fattened, and is really the
only one of our domesticated animals
which has always worked for his living.
For him "eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty" and he cannot be taken by
surprise, while the predatory rover who
essays to pursue him soon learns in deep
disgust the race is to the swift in the
case of this marvellous hog,
"With his long gallop which can tire
The hounds deep hate, the hunters ire. y
For his owner, he is light weight, it is
true, but then he is sure meat. The fat
hog, on the contrary, is perpetual haz'
ard and constant provocative of larceny
He is unable to deal with the only recog-
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 a law unto himself, relying
not upon statutes but on speed for his
protection. 1t is time, therefore, that we
should return to the original principles
on which the fathers founded our smoke
houses, and that the fattest hog of foreign
extraction should no longer be regarded
as superior for practical purposes to the
fastest swine of native growth, each one
of which yields the farmer "lorty pound;
of meat year." and thus tends greatly
to reduce the amount of money which W.
daily export from this State for bacon
amounting to nearly $7,0o0,O0O per an
mum. Respectfully submitted,
r. ]. MAcKEY, Chairman.