. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. ed and the other sideboiled. Further still was this carried by stuff-ing the dressed animal with larks and nightin-gales and delicacies of all sorts, and servingwith wine and rich gravies. We can imaginehow delicious this dish must have been by com-paring it with those barbecues and Brunswickstews so well known by our country people, Germany and France have also, from timesimmemorial, depended upon the pig for food ;while in Ireland, especially among the poorerclasses, the pig is often the chief source ofprofit and the gintlem
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. ed and the other sideboiled. Further still was this carried by stuff-ing the dressed animal with larks and nightin-gales and delicacies of all sorts, and servingwith wine and rich gravies. We can imaginehow delicious this dish must have been by com-paring it with those barbecues and Brunswickstews so well known by our country people, Germany and France have also, from timesimmemorial, depended upon the pig for food ;while in Ireland, especially among the poorerclasses, the pig is often the chief source ofprofit and the gintleman that pays the early pig stock of our country and of thestates to the south of us came first by theimportations of the early Spanish first ships that landed on our shoresbrought swine ; from this early stock the pigin America has come, its habitat spreading in ashort time to the whole land. Since those daysof exportation and adventure improved hogsof many breeds have been imported, especiallyfrom England, but from other countries as A Drove of Hogs in Ohio and which possess rich and delicate flavorsnever equaled by other domestic animals. We have, on the authority of Varro, thestatement that the Gauls raised the largestand finest swine flesh that was brought intoItaly during those early days. This is ofinterest in connection with the fact that theItalians and ancient Spaniards kept large drovesof swine, which formed the principal part oftheir live stock. In those early days swine werecommon in Greece and in adjoining the Jews and the followers of Mohammedhave always abstained from swine flesh, nearlyall other peoples have found the pig of con-siderable importance in their food is true of the ancient Britons. Goodmeat was supplied chiefly from the hog. II. The Pig in the Old WorldThroughout the Old World the pig abounds,its highest development being attained byEnglish breeders. At the present time it isalmost universall
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