Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . O I-J a; BOOK III PART I SWINE HISTORY, MANAGEMENT AND CHARACTERISTIC;OF THE VARIOUS BREEDS 938 CYCLOPEDIA OP LIVE STOCK AND Co-T ptf •<Tn(K DOCTOT^.. SWINE. CHAPTER I,HISTORY AND STATISTICS OP SWINE. 1. ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF THE HOG. II. THE NATIVE AMERICAN SPECIES III. SWINE OF EUROPE, ASIA ANU AFRICA. IV. THE WILD HO
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . O I-J a; BOOK III PART I SWINE HISTORY, MANAGEMENT AND CHARACTERISTIC;OF THE VARIOUS BREEDS 938 CYCLOPEDIA OP LIVE STOCK AND Co-T ptf •<Tn(K DOCTOT^.. SWINE. CHAPTER I,HISTORY AND STATISTICS OP SWINE. 1. ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF THE HOG. II. THE NATIVE AMERICAN SPECIES III. SWINE OF EUROPE, ASIA ANU AFRICA. IV. THE WILD HOGS OF EUROPE. V. TEETH OF THE HOG. VI. BROUGHT TO AMERICA BY COLUM-BUS. VII. LOCATION OF PRINCIPAL MARKETS. I. Origin and Antiquity ol the Hog. The original country of the hog, like that of the other domesticatedtinimals of the farm, is lost in the obscurity of the past. Yet, ever sincehistory began, the hog has bo^n known in a wild state in Asia, Africa andin Europe. That the hogs < f all these countries have a common origin isshown by the fact that they all belong to the same scientific classification,nus scrofa, and also by the more important fact that they are all fertiletcgether, and continue to produce fertile offspring, from generation toofeneration. The great antiquity of swine is shown by the fact that fossil remainshave been found in the tertiary and diluvial deposits of Europe ; and fos-sils of a speci
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