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 . cies here are not, we believe, continuouoly fertU*with the domesticat>ed bo^ 939 940 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. m. SwineofEiirope, Asia and Africa. While it is a fact, as i)reviously stated, that the swine of Europe, Asiaand Africa have a conimoii origin, there is no means of knowing how orwhen th
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 . cies here are not, we believe, continuouoly fertU*with the domesticat>ed bo^ 939 940 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. m. SwineofEiirope, Asia and Africa. While it is a fact, as i)reviously stated, that the swine of Europe, Asiaand Africa have a conimoii origin, there is no means of knowing how orwhen they were first introduced. The probability, however, is that theyspread si)ontaneously over these countries ; for the original forest cover-nig rendered the means of migration easy to them, since thiclv timber andall the lands along streams furnish their natural feeding The Wild Hogs of Europe. It matters little, practically, how any of the farm animals originated,or how they were naturally disseminated over the earth ; though tosavants, of course, the question is curious and interesting. It is worthyof remark, that of all domestic animals used as food by man, the hog isthe only one that has preserved his native characteristics unmoditied in awild GROUP OV CHESTER WHITES. The hunting of wild hogs has formed an exciting chase in ail ages ofLhe world, both on account of their fleetness and their savage couragewhen brought to bay. In the southern portions of the United States, insparsely settled districts, swine are found escaped from domestication, andshowing all their natural savage traits, including dangerous fiercenesawhen brought to bay. Forty years ago the writer hunted wild hogs,—the descendants of Indian breeds,—in the swamps and morasses of north-ern Indiana and the timbered river bottoms of the Calumet. The hai-dwinter of 1844, howev(;r, destroyed the last remnant of these wild hogs,they having all died in their lairs, from exposure and want of foo
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