The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-11-14
On Behalf of the Hog.

II ! were to go on farm with The
idea OF ascertaining whether the man
who owned it was thrifty and intclli-
gent man in his calling, that i: to say,
a good farmer, the first thin? would
do would bc TO look at his hogs lie
might take me to his stable and show
me horses direct from Lexington or
from Elcctioneer. or he might takcmc
to the pastures and let me gaze upon
the fawn -coorcd and delicate Jersey
and the black -and-whitc ponderous
HolstciD, or even on his bccf-stock Of
Galloways, Durhams, Ilcrcfords or
Polled- Angus, and yet | would not be
satisfied. L would want to 60 to his
pen and ascertain what he was doing
there. For if in his pig pen or pig
pasture he had the shrivelcd hog, I
| would know that his cattle were moth
ing but fad. and that after all there
was nothing in him in the way of the
practical farmcr.
1t might be that he would expect
mis- fiud cattle to yield enough to
"makc his meat But if he had the
hogs, whether beef was high or low, he
had the meat anyhow. To me 6nc
horses, fine cattle, fine sheep, fine
houses aud all that. without the hog,
is what might be called speculative
farming. But when you look over in
the pen of the farmer or in the hog
pasture of the farmer, or even when
he calls them up from the roads, and
they are healthy and strong and of
the right proportions, then you can
60 on and look at the balance of his
stock with some pleasure, because
you know that he has been wise
enough to provide his meat for the
year, anyhow, and with the bread, corn
or wheat, which never fails entirely,
his cattle and horses and sheep are to
great extent profit. / 90 not care
how full is the stable and the COW pen
if the pig pen is empty-the owuer is
guessing.
Of course, everyone knows that the
hog characteristics arc not pleasing to
man. He is an animal without
friend, so to speak, except when the
time comes to eat him, and then he is
appreciated only after he is dead. In
to our language has been engrafted
such words as hoggishness and trying
to hog, and all that. If child's
clothing is soiled by playing, his affec-
tionate mother says he is as "flthy as
pig" If man becomes the least
obese, his kind friends will say that
he is "as fat as hog" If man
wants to get what is coming to him in
this life, other people with as much
greed as he will say, "he is trying to
hog everything in sight" The very
name of hog carries with it the sug-
gestion of filth. obesity, greed and
coarseness. Next to the snake there
is nothing living more condemned
than this most lovable, most intelli-
gent and Lost useful animal to man.
AS far as the books show he has been
the constant companion Of man, multi
plying and furnishing him food. He
rode out the storm with Noah, and the
chances arc ten to one that the frst
fresh meat that Noah tasted after his
long, but not altogether exciting float,
was fresh pork. Belonging to the
pachydefm family, be has relatives in
the elephant, rhinoceros and hippopo-
tamus, and some near relatives, suoh
as the bariroussa OF the Polynes;an
islands and the pecoary Of the country
south Of US.
Being somewhat short on clothes,
that is hair, and insects liking his
meat about as we'll as man, he seeks
mud to smother the enemies Which
prey upon him, and as far as intelli-
genoe goes l leave it to any farmer
who ever tried to keep fence-break.
ing SOW out Of field, to testify wheth-
er saS anima! is more intelligent than
hog, and If this testimony is not
sufficient 70 prove that the animal
knows more in q minute than horse,
dog and elephant all combined in q
thousand years, I will bring to the
stand one Of the best lawyers in tho
State, who played seven-up with
one OF them at the Omaha exposi-
tion.
Intended for food for man, in order
to be of full benefit to said man he
has to be in 'good order" To be in
''good order" he has to hustle for food
and eat all set before him. Hustling
and eating in this way ho is careless
in his general department aud habits.
To the ordinary person ne is not at all
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