Domestic animals: a pocket manual of cattle, horse and sheep husbandry; or, How to breed and rear the various tenants of tne barn-yard: embracing directions for the breeding, reari by Jacques D. H. (Daniel Harrison) 1825-1877

Author:Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Domestic animals, Bees
Publisher: New York, Fowler and Wells
Published: 1858-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

SWINE.

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SWINE,

Where oft the swine, from ambush warm and dry, Bolt out and scamper headlong to their sty.— Bloomjltld.

I.-NATUKAL HISTOET.

HE hog (Suidcs sus of Linnaeus), according to Cuvier, belongs to "the class Mammalia, order Pachydermata, genus Suidce or sus."

Professor Low remarks, that " the hog is subject to remarkable changes of form and characters, according to the situation in which he is placed. When these characters assume a certain degree of permanence, a breed or variety is formed; and there is no one of the domestic animals which more easily receives the characters we desire to impress upon it. This arises from its rapid powers of increase, and the constancy with which the characters of the parents are reproduced in the progeny.

There is no kind of livestock that can be so easily improved by the breeder and so quickly rendered suited to the purposes required; and the same characters of external form indicate in the hog a disposition to arrive at early maturity of muscle and fat as in the ox and the sheep. The body is long in proportion to the limbs, or, in other words, the limbs are short in proportion to the body ; the extremities are free from coarseness; the chest is broad and the trunk round. Possessing these characteristics, the hog never fails to arrive at early maturity, and with a smaller consumption of food than when he possesses a different conformation."

The wild boar, which was undoubtedly the progenitor of all the European varieties, and also of the Chinese breed, was for-

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