Show p PIGS AS DRAFT ANIMALS I I S many countries nnd even so near a otlund the pig has served these the-se of a beast of draft and has Illy been harnessed to tho plow In y any with cows nnd horses Inland In-land also early In tho last cent cen-t i pigs wero sometimes made to k as chargers and proved most t e mounts Ic homing Instinct Is strongly deed de-ed in the pig Instances not intently in-tently occur of pigs finding their back to farms whence they havo it conveyed There is u record of tt p lgs homing nine miles and cross n Rile Thames to boot to their old I I whence they had been driven to leading market ahd bought by a r gentleman on tho previous day Ine point on their homeward jour where two roads met tho twain observed putting their noses her as if in deep consultation out 1815 a London gentleman cre 1 j a sensation by driving a fourIn i of pigs through the streets andy t and-y years later an old farmer fed amusement to a great crowd I II he market place at St Albans by rIng it III a chaise drawn by four trotting hogs After two or three turns around tho market ho drove to the Woolpack yard where his curious steeds were unharnessed and led away to be regaled with a trough of beans and wash There have also been sporting pigs An old account of a black sow which Richard Toomcr one ot the royal keepers in the New Forest broke to I find game and to back and stand says Within a fortnight she would find and point partridges or rabbits and her training was much forwarded by tho rbundance of both + She dally Improved and In a few weeks would retrieve birds that had inn as well as the best pointer nay her nose was superior to tho best pointer According to Linnaeus tho hog Is more nice In the selection of his vegetable vege-table diet than any of our other domesticated do-mesticated herbivorous animals Thus In one respect the pig may bo said to be an epicure Linnaeus states that tho animal will eat seventytwo plants as against tho goats 449 tho sheeps 387 tho cows 276 and tho horses 202 London Dally Express |