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Show ODD FUNCTION OF HOG'S LEG Escape Pipe for Discharge of Waste Matter Not Used In Economy of Body Placed There. The hog' leg perform a function not known to any other animal, and that Is an escape pipe or pipes for the discharge of waste matter or sweat not used In the economy of the body. These pipe are situated upon the inside in-side of the legs, above and below the knees In the forelegs and above the luinibrel Joint In the hind legs, but In the latter they are very small and the function are light. Fpon the inside of the foreleg they are, in the healthy hog, always active. o that moisture is always there about and below these orifice or ducts In the healthy hog. The holes In the legs and breathing in the hog are his principal and only mean of ejecting an excess of heat slsive normal, and when very warm the hog will open ihe mouth and breathe through that channel as wed as the nostrils. The horse can perspire per-spire through all the ton of Its body, such as a man. and cattle do the same to a limited extent, but the hog never. His escape valves are confined to the orifices upon the Inside of his leg, people often wonder why it Is that Iho hog dies so suddenly when In-runs In-runs rapidly or takes rpiick and iis but exercise by fighting. Hut whn vou consider the few escape pipes, their small capacity and remoteness from the cavity where the heat I generated, the wonder Is not tbul Indies In-dies quickly when overheated, but that he lives a long a he does when beated op. |