Show PIGS AS DAFT ANIMALS in many countries and even so near ao scotland the pig has served the S of a beast of draft and has actually been harnessed to the plow in company with cows and horses in scotland also early in the last cen tury pigs were sometimes made to serve as chargers and proved most docile mounts the boiling instinct is strongly de in the pig instances not in frequent i occur of pigs their way bad to farms whence they have een conveyed there is a record of two pigs homing n ne miles and cross ing the thames to boot to their old farm whence they had been driven to reading market and bought by a local gentleman on the previous day at one point on their homeward jour ney where two roads met the twain were ob arved pitting their noses together as it in deep consultation about 1815 a london gentleman ere abed a sensation by driving a four in hand of pigs through the streets and thirty years later an old farmer caused amusement to a great crowd in the market place at st albans by entering it in a chaise drawn by four trott ng hogs after two or three turns around the market he drove to the vao pack yard where his curious steeds were and led awas to be regaled with a trough of beans and asi there have also been sporting pigs an old account of a black sow which richard toomer one of the royal keepers in the new forest brol e to find game and to bad and stand says within a fortnight she would find and point partridges or rabbits and her training was much forwarded by the abundance of both she dally improved and in a few wee s would retrieve birds that had run as well as the best pointer nay her nose was superior to the best pointer accord ng to linnaeus the hog Is more nice in the selection of his vege table d et tan any of our other 0 o herbivorous animals thus in one respect the pig may be said to bo an epicure linnaeus states that the animal will eat seventy two plants a against the goat s iche sheep s 87 the cow s and he horse s london daily express |