No. 27.-VOL. 4. These rewards compared with those of older" tic manufactures, as in their judgment are ensocieties, may appear small; but the farmers" titled to encouragement by rewards, and shall and others are informed, that the rewards as well" also at the same time fix, ascertain and publish as the objects of them, will be extended in pro-" such rewards, and the conditions whereon the portion as the means of the institution are in- same shall become due, and payable to the percreased. And in a short time the directors hope" son or persons who shall by his, her or their In conformity with an Act of the Legislature to include as objects of reward, crops of all the " skill, or industry, according to such conditions, of Pennsylvania, "For the promotion of Agri-modes of cultivation, manures, fences, condition different kinds of grain and culinary vegetables;" become entitled to the same." culture and Domestic Manufactures," the first Annual Meeting of the Society for the promotion mark the superior industry and enterprize of the of farms, and generally all improvements which of Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures in SECT. I. The directors shall publish in the and for the County of Allegheny, will be held farmer and cultivator. News-papers as often and at such times as they on the last MONDAY of October next, at the wards will be given must be the production of of agriculture, production or improvement in DoAll manufactured articles for which re-may deem expedient, for what objects, articles Town of Allegheny, opposite Pittsburgh, when the county of Allegheny. the following rewards will be distributed. mestic Manufactures, rewards will be given, speIt is to be distinctly understood that in every cifying the value and different kinds of rewards, case when the Directors shall consider the ob-to be given, and the conditions whereon the same ject presented as not deserving the reward, they shall or may be obtained. For the best bull, not more than five years best heifer, from one to three years best yoke of broke oxen second best yoke of broke oxen For the best stallion HORSES. best brood mare best colt under three years old For the best boar not more than two years old nor under six months $10 reserve to themselves the right of rejecting it, SECT. II. The directors or a majority of them 8 All farmers and others are requested to send to selves award and distribute the premiums to 5 the fair such fine animals and home manufactured those persons who shall have deserved the same. articles as they shall be disposed to sell, as am- SECT. III. The directors shall announce ple accommodations will be provided, and an through the public papers, the names, occupaAuctioneer employed to make sale without tions and residence of each individual to whom a 5 charge. reward shall have been adjudged, and the nature, WILLIAM WILKINS, value and amount of such reward and for what it was granted. best breeding sow 5 best pigs not less than four in num- 3 SHEEP. HARMAR DENNY, Secretary. President. SECT. IV. The directors shall prescribe and publish previous to the annual meeting, where the same shall be held, the rules, regulations, arrangements, and order of proceeding to be observed during the continuance of the annual meet 5 For the Government of the Society. for the pro-ing. best native ram 3 best native ewes three in number 3 DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. For the best piece of linen shirting not less next best woollen cloth best woollen socks and stockings knit best woollen carpeting not less than best pair of blankets best bonnet made of straw or grass SECT. V. The Directors shall provide and arrange suitable accommodations for the CattleShow, exhibition of manufactures and ploughing matches, to be held on the annual meetings. SECT. VI. It shall be the duty of the direc The attention of this Society shall be confined to Agriculture, Rural affairs, and Domestic Manu-tors, with such other persons as may be appointed factures. They will carefully avoid topics which for this purpose to examine into and report to are productive of dissention, or calculated to to the President quarterly, as far as may be prac5 withdraw their attention from the objects of comticable, the state of agriculture and of the growing crops in those parts of the county as may come under their particular observation. To report all improvements in husbandry, the introduction Every person on becoming a member the Socie- of valuable trees, seeds and manures, of new and ty, shall pay to the Treasurer thereof, One Dol-improved implements of agriculture, and any 5 lar, and shall sign an agreement, promising to new improvement or invention, relating to manu5 pay as long as he shall remain a member of the factures, as well as all such other matters as may Society, the sum of one dollar or more, annually promote the objects of the Society, which re5 to the Treasurer thereof. 10 5 10 5 ARTICLE II. ARTICLE III. SECT. I. The Society shall meet annually on 5 the last Monday of October, at such place as the directors shall fix upon, and continue from day to day until the business to be transacted at 3 such annual meetings shall be finished. SECT. II. At said annual meetings there shall ports shall be delivered to the Secretary, to be preserved among the archieves of the Society.The directors shall also at the annual meetings make a report to the Society of the general state of agriculture and manufactures in the county. ARTICLE V. SECT. I. All the officers shall be elected by ballot, and due notice must be given of the hours 3 be a Cattle-Show, and general exhibition of spe- and place of holding the election. cimens of Domestic Manufactures,-Agricultu- SECT. II. The Directors shall appoint three ral productions,-Implements of Husbandry, and disinterested persons to act as judges at the elecany new or useful improvements or inventions re-tion, to receive and count the ballots, and to make 10 lating to Agriculture or Manufactures. a true return of the election. SECT. III. After the Cattle-Show, and Exhi- SECT. III. The judges shall keep a correct 5 bition shall have closed, essays on the subjects of list of the names of the voters, and of the numHusbandry, or Manufactures may be read or ad-ber of votes given in for each officer, and deliver dresses delivered. the said list, tally-papers and return of the elec 5 SECT. IV. "At the annual meetings the Socie-tion, certified by them, to the Secretary. ty shall determine upon such articles of agri- SECT. IV. No person, shall be permitted to 5" culture, production, or improvement in domes-vote at any election for officers who shall or may be in arrears for his annual subscription or any part thereof. each. DIRECTORS. do. FRANCIS MCCLURE, of Mifflin Township. SECT. V. The treasurer shall furnish the judgGEORGE WALLACE, of Pitt. es of the election with a correct list of all delin-CHRISTOPHER COWEN, of Fayette do. quent subscribers, and the amount due from HENRY BELTZHOOVER, of St. Clair do. CHARLES H. ISRAEL, of Mifflin, do. THOMAS CHALFANT, of Plumb. do.. DUNNING M'NAIR, of Pitt. do. WILLIAM LEA, of St. Clair. do. JOHN FRITCHMAN, of Versailles, ANTHONY BEELEN, Pittsburgh. ARTICLE VI. Persons proposing for admission shall make application to the board of directors, through any member of the board, and shall be admitted by a Majority of the directors agreeing to the same. ARTICLE VII. All candidates or applicants for premiums shall make known his, her, or their intentions in writing at any time before 9 o'clock A. M. of the day appointed for holding the Cattle-Show and exhibition, giving a full and minute account of the article, production or improvement offered for premium, which description shall be registered by the secretary in a book to be kept for that purpose. ARTICLE VIIL. The duties of the President shall be to preside at all meetings of the Society and of the directors to superintend the general concerns of the society-to maintain all useful correspondence in relation to the objects of the Society, and make from time to time, such communications to the Society as he may deem useful and proper call meetings of the directors when he shall think it necessary, or upon the written request of three directors; and shall on the request of a majority of the directors, call special meetings of the Society. He shall certify all copies of the proceedings, of the directors of the Society and direct the seal of the Society to be affixed to the same when necessary. ARTICLE IX. do. HARMAR DENNÝ, Secretary. is indigestible and scorbutic; we know they would If you want to learn the value of the Hog, consult the French cook, who knows how to dress eggs in six hundred and eighty five different ways, and he will tell you that the artist alone is at the head of the culinary profession who has "To mix the food by vicious rules of art, Seeing no reason why our friends, the Farmers triumphed over every obstacle, by varying his The oration being rather long for this paper, we THE HOG. · Commanding sweet to stream from every cook: Children no more their antic gambols tried, And friends to physic wonder'd how they died." and yet, had we asked him to name his favorite Thus sang our inimitable Hasty-pudding bard; dish, he would have answered, Pork and Beans, all his bones were made of Indian corn. with the same simplicity as he informed us that Put the Dominion,' and he will tell you Hog and Hosame question to a member from the Ancient mony; to one from Maryland, and he will answer, the wing of a Mud Lark it to the chairman of a committee, who maintains that there is no report like the report of a cork, no digest of laws like the laws of digestion,' and he will reply AN ORATION WRITTEN FOR MASTER T. J.L.* Ham and Chickens. Even the Judge who lost his hat the other day in a rencontre with a drove of Respected Preceptor, and beloved Classmates: these sturdy grunters moving heedlessly down Tired with having recourse to our school books the Pennsylvania avenue to the pot, the stew-pan, for studied pieces of elocution, for our declama- smoke house, harness-tub, and spit, will say, Batory exercises, which, though admired for their con and Eggs. various beauties, have become in a manner unin- Nature has so arranged it, that every part of teresting from continual repetition, I have ven- the Hog is good-there is nothing in him to retured, like a nestling from the branch, to take aject. The fine arts have disputed with the kitchShould I, in this attempt, call forth your risible knight of the dishclout owes his fortune to the flight of my own, with a view to try my powers.en the honor of stripping him, and while many a faculties, by blending together, in the repast Hog, his bristles have been the instrument of the Gastronomy and Beauty, the Holy Alliance and to the fame of many an epic poet, in a choice meam about to offer you, the Hog and the Fine Arts, glory of a West and a Trumbull, and have added Stump Orators, which I propose to serve up, taphor. ter the German manner, garnished with American brains, and a few French nick-knacks, I must assure you that mirth is not my sole object: A SECT. 11. The Secretary shall take charge of moral, as you will find by listening to me with all the papers and documents belonging to the indulgence, may be drawn from a Pig, as well Society, and preserve all reports made by the di- as from the democratic Ant, or monarchical rectors and others and all essays that may be Bee. SECT. 1. The Secretary shall keep regular minutes of the proceedings of the directors, and of the Society, keep a list of the members and give due public notice of all meetings, he shall transcribe into a book all by-laws, adopted by the society. SECT. 11. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep a book into which he shall register the names, occupations and residence of each and every applicant for rewards, together with a description and account of the article, production or improvement, such applicant may offer for premium and also note to whom premiums may be awarded. af Thy hair so bristles with unmanly fears As fields of corn that rise in bearded ears." head, the house-maid, valet, chimney sweeper, The gouty nabob's limbs, the dapper dandy's and shoe-black, are all indebted to him; while the divine mouth of Miss, whose pouting lips, read in the Society in relation to agriculture, The Hoc is the king of all unclean animals; resembling blushing berries cast on snow," I manufactures or any of the objects of the So-his empire is the most universal, and his qualities never kissed, perhaps never shall,' owes half its ciety. the most unequivocal of any other. He is the sweetness to the Hog.t SECT. IV. The Secretary shall have the care sovereign of the cook-shop; without him we When treating of this valuable animal, we are of the books or Library, belonging to the Socie-should have no lard, no forced meat balls, nor at a loss to know how to get into the subject, or ty, which he is authorised to give out to any fixed ammunition for the frying pan; no roast at which end to take him. If we begin at the most member or members, or other persons subject to pigs in short, no kitchen. noble part, we shall discover that, without much such regulations, as the directors may prescribe. Your Willich's, Volneys, Buchans, and Mea- labor, it is transformed for the tables of princes, ses, cry in vain that his flesh is heavy and laxa-so as to resemble (which we hold contrary to the SECT. V. The Secretary shall have charge of tive. Our Mitchills and Physicks, Huntts and arts of civilization) the head of a wild Boar. His. the seal of the Society, and affix the same to such Worthingtons, may tell us, if they please, that it cutlets, whether broiled simple in papillote, of papers, or documents only, as the President may direct. served in ragout, are gratifying to our sensuality. OFFICERS FOR THE PRESENT YEAR. * Lest the author should be considered as a fin- His thighs and shoulders have contributed to the ished Gastronome, it is but in justice to himself, des Gourmands, to state, that he is indebted to Thus, the Wing of a Mud Lark, in the slang of as well as to the inimitable author of the Almanac ↑ Mud Lark-the Marylanders' term for Hog. that amusing work for many of the culinary and the country, is a Ham. other articles to be found in this Eulogy. By the Tooth Brusir. 2 riches and reputation of Virginia, Westphalia, ravaging vineyards and harvests, as a superb and think that to him, nstead of the lion, belongs th and Bayonne. His ears and tongue are tidbits cruel conqueror, though they at the same time title of the king of animals; in point of insting when operated upon by an expert cook; and held his flesh in aversion as unclean. The death (by which he selects 72 species of vegetables an his uprights, when dressed after the consummate of the wild boar of the mountain of Enymanthe, rejects 171,) sagacity, and docility, when tuto manner of Saint Mince, are preferred by all the was one of the twelve labors of Hercules, in whose ed, he is but little, if anywise, inferior to th members of the Holy Alliance to that plain, time the Hog was immolated on wedding days, dog, beaver, and half-reasoning elephant. Wh though famous American dish, the Rights of as an emblem of fecundity. He was also sacri- has not heard of the learned Pig spelling word Man, the stamina of all good constitutions, which ficed to Diana, and in the Island of Crete he was pointing out names, and designating cards? I the sovereign people will finally have to cram considered as a sacred animal. In short, he has the towns of Europe, when the swineherd sound down their legitimate throats with less ceremony been sung over by High Priests, immortalized his horn, every Hog leaves his stye to follow hin than we stuff young turkeys, before they know by Poets, and his virtues have been recorded by to the forest or fields. If a storm is approach what is good for themselves and those who nour-sage historians. Ish and support them. The Hog's haslet, intestines, web, and sçra-red seer, who read the oracles of destiny to E-ter nose, true as Torricelli's best instrument, t What school-boy does not recollect the inspi- take place, the Hog is the first with his Barome pings, form the essentials and tubes of all our neas, foretelling the hero that his wanderings make the discovery and to warn his keeper by ing, or a change of wind or weather is about t sausages. Even his blood has the advantage over would not cease until he should espy the predes- his cries and movements. With a knowledge of that of all other animals, of being turned divers tined, infallible signals of civilization and future this fact, the conjurers tell us, "he is the only ways to the cravings of our appetites. His meat, grandeur, a white sow recumbent with her litter animal who sees the wind," by which means he hashed fine, in addition to the various metamor-of pigs, emblem of a multiplying people, the is enabled, on the principle of carpe diem, to phoses it is subjected to, is the principal ingre-sources of wealth and power. dates itself so marvellously to the cavities, of what timation, and there the most particular attention has one quality which distinguishes him from all In Rome, the Hog was held in the highest es-endowed with sensibility as well as instinct, and to that boasting feeder John Bull is rara avis-a was paid to the art of cleaning, feeding and fatten- others of the brute creation-that of running to avoid foul weather, and enjoy the fine. He is also Roasted Turkey. His breast and middlings, ing him; an art, which the Latin authors on the aid of all his brother hogs in distrees and difwhen consigned to the pickle, are alike estima-rural economy called Porculantio. Under the ficulty, braving the greatest dangers and the ru ble, whether garnished with greens or engulphed emperors, the vulgar luxury of Glutony, (for a dest treatment for the love of kin. in a New England chowder; while if hashed in fine polished Gastronome was not known in those dient of that exquisite stuffing which accommo the reader. small cubes, and studded like pearls over the days,) was carried to great excess, even to a cru- OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE liver of a calf, the crested fricandeau rises to our elty too disgusting to mention. Among the opuview, to reign the queen of all the senses, and lent ferocious Romans, (as Lady Morgan very again, when cut in transparent slices to decorate properly styles them,) they had two celebrated this work, which is to treat of the Breeding of the breasts of patridges, woodcocks, snipes, ways of preparing and cooking a hog-one con- Swine, the following account of the natural hisquails, ortolans, red birds, and such like super-sisted in serving him up, as large as life, with one HOG. Before we proceed to the chief design of latives of the table, they supersede the necessity side boiled and the other roasted. of larding or basting in the usual way-giving a was called the Trojan manner, in allusion to the flavour to these roasted delights which the delicate famous horse of Troy, stuffed with combat- its various objects have been divided into classThe other tory of the animal may not be unacceptible to palates of such renowned epicures as your Tom ants. It consisted of taking out all the insides Brattles of America, D' Aigrefeuilles of France, of the Hog, and then forcing him, with every mon to many. As Nature herself, however, has To facilitate the study of Natural History, and Quins of England, find incomparable. Shall species of game and other victims, filling the cre- drawn no very exact line of distinction bewe mention Brawn, his spare-rib, Chine, the vices with oysters, the whole moistened with costes, by selecting the properties which are comrasher of bacon or pork, sprinkled with vinegar, y wines and rich juices. This preparation of the and sweetened with all the boatmen's delight, and Trojan Hog led to such extravagancies that it be-mals belong, or which they most resemble; his head called, when deprived of all its bones, came the object of a sumptuary law. tween the different species of animals, it is often a cheese? The very gastric juice of a true Gasdifficult to determine to which class some anitronome, on his beholding it, rises to the mouth, Eastern Shore of Maryland, boast of their roasted ample. It is like the animals of the horse We have heard some gentlemen, from the of this the hog, or swine, is a remarkable eximpatient to envelope it. Then comes his skin to form the Borachos, in pect they never heard of such barbecues as these, ach: it is like the animals of the cow kind in Hogs, after the West India manner, but we sus-of its head; and in having but a single stomwhich the Spanish and Portuguese vintagers which appear to us to be as extraordinary as the its cloven hoofs, and in the position of the in kind in the number of its teeth; in the length transport their generous wine, called by an old Chanoine the milk of the aged, the balsam of the tenpenny nails, which a terrific itinerant preach-footed kind, as the lion, the cat, and the dog, infernal Venison-a roasted tiger stuffed with! adult, and the vehicle of the epicure. Then again er once told his hearers his Satanic Majesty in its appetite for flesh,' in not chewing the cud, it is destined for the creble and the seive, and served up to all sinners. testines; and it is like the animals of the claw finally, to prove its superior excellence, on the saddle of the horseman. In this shape how many in such high repute as to form, (as in our new diate between those that live upon flesh, and It appears from various historians that, among stump orators it takes astride, and bears along settlements,) not only their common food, but the less ancient people of Europe, pork was held and in its numerous progeny. through bog and briar, in Indian track, and over The animals of the hog kind, therefore, posturnpike, vexing, by its durability and pliability, sess in the scale of existence a situation intermethe coarser texture of its rough neighbors, until The Salique law treats more of the Hog than of by "stooping down, as he must needs who can-any other domestic animal. One of its chapters short intestines; their hoofs also, though cloalso the principal article of their best repasts.the one and inoffensive like the other. Like, those that live upon grass, being ravenous like not sit upright," these idols of the people arrive, is confined altogether to the punishment of hog with their noble suffering parts, at the crimson stealing-de furtis porcorum. Formerly the the rapacious kinds, and they are found to have greatest revenues of the Mother church consist-tion, appear to be supplied with bones like ven to the sight, will, upon anatomical inspeced in her hog tithes. In those days the corpu-also increase the similitude: on the other hand, what would man be without his Hog? His vir- Saint* has ever since been represented by artists and seldom seek after animal food, except when lent priests of France, who "larded the lean in a natural state they live upon vegetables, beasts of prey; and the number of their teats earth as they walked along," and whose tutelar Mayor of New York, for whom he has long offi- with a Hog at his feet, were so fond of Pork, that urged by necessity. They offend no other aniciated as scavenger general, to that hardy oceantroubler, the Marblehead fisherman, of whose called Bacconiques, from the old worn Baccon or the dishes destined to bear it to the table were furnished with arms to terrify the bravest. Cod he is the aid-de-camp; and, though all are mal of the forest, at the same time that they are indebted to him for so many enjoyments, yet they was then these bon vivans daily invoked their Bacon, which signified a fatted pork or Hog. It never mention him but in the language of abuse, guardian, seat of honor. In short, from the St. Croix to the Mississippi, from the Blue Ridge to the Rocky Mountains, tues and his worth are known to all, from the and never cease to load his name with the most opprobrious terms. Not so the ancients. They honored him by sacrificing him to Ceres, the goddess of abundance, for having taught man how to plough the earth. The Egyptians sacrificed him to the full moon and to Bacchus. They regarded him, too,| as the symbol of intrepidity, and when in his fury "That their life, like the leap of their patron Du lit a la table, de la table au lit." Hog, in olden and modern times, we cannot bat * St. Anthony. The wild boar, which is the original of all the varieties we find in this creature, is by no smaller than the tame hog, and does not vary means so stupid nor so filthy an animal as that we have reduced to tameness; he is much in his colour* as those of the domestic kind of form and colour to bird and beast-this can- t From the bed to the table, the table to the bed tention in breeding. AMERICAN FARMER. so of this animal are larger than in the tame is sustained and the chace continues till the do, but is always found of an iron grey, inclin-uniformly forward, not much afraid, nor very la bed, and hiding itself from the impending ing to black; his snout is much longer than far before his pursuers. At the end of every storm. Nor is it less agitated when it hears of that of the tame hog, and the ears thorter, half mile, or thereabouts, he turns round, stops any of its kind in distress: when a hog is caught rounder, and black; of which colour are also till the hounds come up, and offers to attack in a gate, as is often the case, or when it suffers the feet and the tail. He roots the ground in them. a different manner from the common hog; for their danger, keep off, and bay him at a dis- gather round it, to lend their fruitless assistance, These, on the other hand, knowing ringing or spaying, all the rest are then seen to as this turns up the earth in little spots here tance. After they have for a while gazed upon and to sympathise with its sufferings. They and there, so the wild boar plows it up like each other, with mutual animosity, the boar have often also been known to gather round a furrow, and does irreparable damage in the again slowly goes on his course, and the dogs a dog that had teased them, and kill him upon cultivated lands of the farmer. The tusks al-renew their pursuit. In this manner the charge the spot. breed, some of them being seen almost a foot boar is quite tired, and refuses to go any fur-intemperance; measles, imposthumes, and scrclong. These, as is well known, grow from both ther. The dogs then attempt to close in upon phulous swellings, are reckoned among the num Most of the diseases of this animal arise from the under and upper jaw, bend upwards circu-him from behind; those which are young, fierce, ber. It is thought by some that they wallow in larly, and are exceeding sharp at the points. and unaccustomed to the chace, are generally the mire to destroy a sort of a louse or insect They differ from the tusks of the elephant in the foremost, and often lose their lives by their that is often known to infest them. They are this, that they never fall; and it is remarkable ardour. Those which are older and better generally known to live, when so permitted, to wounds. * pro of all the hog kind, that they never shed their trained are content to wait until the hunters eighteen or twenty years; and the females teeth as other animals are seen to do. The come up, who strike at him with their spears, duce till the age of fifteen. As they produce tusks of the lower jaw are always most to be and, after several blows, despatch or disable him. from ten to twenty young at a litter, and that dreaded, and are found to give very terrible The instant the animal is killed, they cut off twice a year, we may easily compute how nuThe wild boar can properly be called nei- taint to the flesh; and the huntsmen celebrate minished by human industry. In the wild state. the testicles, which would otherwise give a merous they would shortly become, if not dither a solitary nor a gregarious animal. The the victory with their horns. three first years the whole litter follows the sow, and the family lives in a herd together. upon roots and vegetables; it seldom attacks any cause exhausted by rearing up her former nu The hog, in a natural state, feeds chiefly woods brings forth but once a year, probably bethey are less prolific; and the sow of the They are then called beasts of company, and other animal, being content with such provi-merous progeny. unite their common forces against the invasi- sions as it can procure without danger. Whatons of the wolf, or the more formidable beasts ever animal happens to die in the forest, or is Britain, as appears from the laws of Hoeldda, of prey. Upon this their principal safety while so wounded that it can make no resistance, be- the famous Welsh legislator, who permitted his The wild boar was formerly a native of Great young depends, for when attacked they give comes a prey to the hog, who seldom refuses grand huntsman to chace that animal from the each other mutual assistance, calling to other with a very loud and fierce note; the never at the pains of taking or procuring it cember. The vast forest that grew on the north each animal food, how putrid soever, although it is middle of November to the beginning of Destrongest face the danger; they form a ring, alive. For this reason, it seems a glutton rather side of London, was the retreat of many fallow and the weakest fall into the centre. In this by accident than choice, content with vegetable deer, wild boars, and bulls. position few ravenous beasts dare venture to food, and only devouring flesh when pressed by forest, supposed to be Ettrick forest, was anci attack them, but pursue the chace where there necessity, and when it happens to offer; and ently the retreat of the Caledonian boars, which is less resistance and danger. However, when though, in its domestic state, it seems the most were remarkable for their fierceness, and which The Caledonian the wild boar is come to a state of maturity, sordid and brutal animal in nature, devouring are now to be no where met with in Britain. and when conscious of his own superior strength, indiscriminately every thing that comes in its Inglewood forest, betwixt Carlisle and Penrith, he then walks the forest alone, and fearless. way, yet, in its wild state, it is of all other was once the retreat of the wild boar. DuAt that time he dreads no single creature, quadrupeds the most delicate in the choice of ring the day, he commonly remained in the nor does he turn out of his way even for man what vegetables it shall feed on, and rejects a most sequestered part of the wood, and came himself. He does not seek danger, and he does greater number than any of the rest. The cow, out in the night in quest of food. not much seem to avoid it. shun the combat even with the lion, if pro-two huudred and seventy-six plants, and rejects part that is esteemed, but every part of the He does not for instance, as we are assured by Linnæus, eats voked; he does not seek him to attack, but two hundred and eighteen; the goat eats four The snout of an old boar is said to be the only will not fly at his approach; he waits the onset hundred and forty-nine, and rejects an hundred of the lion, which he seldom makes unless and twenty-six; the sheep has three hundred mated Nature. compelled by hunger, and then exerts all his and eighty-seven, and rejects an hundred and strength, and is sometimes successful. We are forty-one; the horse eats two hundred and six- eaten, brawn was considered as a great delicacy ; told of the combat of a lion and a wild boar, in ty-two, and rejects two hundred and twelve; the boar's head soused was anciently the first † At the time when fresh meats were seldom a meadow near Algiers, which continued for but the hog, more nice in its provision than any dish on Christmas-day, and a long time with incredible obstinacy. At last, of the former, eats but seventy-two plants, and to the principal table in the hall with great both were seen to fall by the wounds they had rejects an hundred and seventy-one. In the or-state and solemnity. Hollingshed says, that in given each other; and the ground all about chards of peach-trees in North America, where the year 1170, Henry I., upon the day of the was carried up This animal is therefore seldom attacked but served, that it will reject the fruit that has lain as sewer, bringing up the boar's head with trumthe hog has plenty of delicious food, it is ob- young prince's coronation, served his son at table at a disadvantage, either by numbers, or when but a few hours on the ground, and continue pets before it, according to the manner. There found sleeping by moon-light. The hunting the on the watch whole hours together for a fresh is also a singular ceremony relating to the boar's wild boar is one of the principal amusements wind-fall. of the nobility in those countries where it is to be found. The dogs provided for this sport imperfect manner than the other animals that for others of that season, there was a Carol, However, the hog is naturally formed in a more ford. For this indispensible ceremony, as also head, still retained at Queen's College, in Oxare of the slow heavy kind. Those used for we have rendered domestic around us, less ac- which Wynkyn de Worde has given us as it was hunting the stag, or the roe-buck, would be tive in its motions, less furnished with instinct sung in his time, with the title, very improper, as they would too soon come in knowing what to pursue up with their prey; and, instead of a chace, coarseness of its hair, and the thickness of its would only furnish out an engagement. A small hide, together with the thick coat of fat that or avoid. The ing in the Boar's Head." A Carol bringmastiff is therefore chosen; nor are the hunt-lies immediately under the skin, render it in ers much mindful of the goodness of their nose, some degree insensible to blows, or rough usage. as the wild boar leaves so strong a scent that it Its other senses seem to be in tolerable perfecis impossible for them to mistake its course. tion; it scents the hounds at a distance; and, They never hunt any but the largest and the as we have seen, is not insensible in the choice oldest, which are known by their tracks. When of its provisions. When the wind blows with the boar is rear'd, as is the expression of driving him from his covert, he goes slowly and them was covered with their blood. In single or associated combat the hog is a model of skill even for biped warriors. Edit. Am. Ear. any vehemence, it is so agitated as to run vio- *Goldsmith's History of the Earth and Ani Caput Apri defero The boar's head, I understande, Servite cum cantico. Be gladde lordes, both more and less, castrated and young boar, not exceeding a year back to the woods, where they grew fat, and FROM THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. PREPARING FLAX. I send you samples of Flax, which as I understand, were prepared in Hill and Bundy's Machine. The Yellow is from Flax which had not been rotted; and the white is the same article, after being bleached, by means of soap suds, or a weak solution of muriatic acid. Your friend and Obedient servant, DEAR SIR, OLIVER WOLCOTT. Brighton, 14th July, 1822. This Carol, says Mr. Warton, is still retained at Queen's College. There is indeed in the college an old legend, that a wild boar which We esteem ourselves fortunate in being perinfested the neighbourhood of Oxford, was killed by a taberdar of this college on Christmas-mitted to lay before our readers the following S. W. POMEROY, ESQ. day, as he was going to serve a church; and extracts from a correspondence between His Exthat he killed it by thrusting his copy of Aris-cellency the Governor of Connecticut, and S. W. totle down the throat of the animal, protect-Pomeroy, Esq. of this State. The subject is of ing his arm with some part of his gown. great importance, and if it continues to engage the Your highly valued favour of 29th ult. with This story, it is probable, may have contribu- attention of men of mind, influence, character samples of Flax, prepared in Hill and Bundy's ted to the continuance of the ceremony of the and standing, its discussion may be the means machines, came to hand a few days since. boar's head at Queen's College longer than any of giving a new staple to New England of little if Soon after the publication of the "Essay on where else. The song, however, has no allu- any less importance than cotton or tobacco to Flax Husbandry," the Board of Trustees of the sion to it; it simply' states, that the boar's Southern sections of the Union.—ED. N. E. F. Massachusetts Agricultural Societ, promulgated the offer of liberal rewards for the best experiLitchfield, Con. June, 25, 1822. ments on the preparation of Flax, by boiling, DEAR SIR, steaming or any other than the usual mode. There is a song on this supposed feat of the I have read with great satisfaction your Essay Though the quantity required was only 75 lbs. taberdar, written by the present Dr. Harrington on the Cultivation of Flax, and consider it as the and the period for receiving it continued till of Bath, and printed in the "Oxford Lausage," best I have seen; what we now want, is a dis- the middle of January, none was exhibited; so full of wit and humour, that we assure our-covery of the best means of extricating the glu- and as the competition was not confined to local selves our readers will not be displeased to find tinous matter, and decomposing the woody fibre, bounds, there is reason to believe that the pubit annexed to this note. without fixing the colour, so as to render the lication of the invention by Messers. Dey and process of bleaching, difficult and expensive. Macdonald, of a machine that would supercede IN HONOUR OF THE CELEBRATION OF The common process of rotting in the air, we the necessity of any preparation, and its successTHE BOAR'S HEAD, head is the rarest dish in all this land, and that it has been provided in honour of the King of Bliss. AT QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD. know will never give us good Flax, and the ful operation confidently relied on, had an effect process of water rotting will not be practised to paralize all efforts of the kind. by our people generally; it being a disagreea- From the best information I was able to colI sing not of Roman or Grecian mad games, ble and unhealthy business to those employed lect, before my Essay went to press, I felt a The Pythian Olympic, and such like hard names; in it, and besides poisonous to our streams of strong conviction that the machines of Hill and Your patience a while, with submission, I beg, water. Bundy could not be made extensively useful in Whilst I study to honour the feat of Cool Reg. The extension of our Flax culture, will, in this country; and if their neglect in Great Britain, Derry down, down, down, derry down. my opinion, greatly depend upon our success in except for employing infirm people and children finding out a mode by which common farmers in poor houses and cottages, was not sufficient, No Thracian bowls at our rites e'er prevail, can extract the gluten, and weaken the woody I have since received intelligence from a source We temper our mirth with plain sober mild ale; fibre, so as to render Flax, after being stripped entitled to confidence, that places the question The tricks of old Circe deter us from wine, of its seeds, manageable by such operations or beyond all doubt. An acquaintance with a genThough we honour a boar we won't make our-machines, as can be introduced into common tleman of respectability, lately arrived from selves swine. England, has furnished interesting facts con Derry down, &c. use. The practical question is therefore, does there, nected with the present subject, some of which or does there not exist in nature, a cheap and it may be well to state before I attempt a reply of common solvent, which can be applied to Flax, to your queries. This person has been extenin mass, by operative farmers? sively engaged in the manufacture of linen by You live in a part of our country which is machinery at Leeds. He says that "spinning deeply interested in this question. You, more by hand is mostly abandoned; that last year probably than any person with whom I am ac-about twenty thousand spindles were in operation quainted, can discover this solvent, (if it exist,) at Leeds and its vicinity, which worked up two and the public attention having been much at- thousand tons of flax for fabricks, from the coars tracted to your publication, your recommenda- est sort, to those worth three shillings sterling tion would have a most extensive and salutary per yard, at as cheap a rate (calculating length influence. and breadth) as cotton is spun, and from flax Stout Hercules labour'd, and look'd mighty big, But we can relate such a stratagem taken Derry down, &c. So dreadful this bristle-back'd foe did appear, But instead of avoiding the mouth of the beast, In this gallant action such fortitude shewn is, I therefore take the liberty to request your prepared in the usual way;-that no confidence Flax may, in mass, be subjected to the action bleached flax is of no great importance since Ye squires, that fear neither hills nor rough rocks, Any of the chymical processes of bleaching, I coincide in the opinion you have expressed, more, ever arise, respecting the expences of all the nous matter and weaken the woody fibre, so as Learn Greek, and seek glory from hunting the processes, compared with the value of the Flax, to render the flax manageable by such operawhen it has been prepared as an article of com-tions or machines as can be introduced into Derry down, &c. common use," and sincerely regret my inability boar. merce. |