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It is also evident that the fluctuations in mess pork are much more extensive than in live hogs or fresh products.
We waited perhaps half an hour, when the squad came in view with their two prisoners, each carrying a dead hog.
In addition to pointing it out, the owner described it to be a brown mule, with rat tail, and hog mane.
It's hog-luck, sir, because I wanted to see you quite a lot, but I never thought I'd strike you right here.
The magazines were by no means empty, and there were cattle, horses, and hogs in adjacent fields and enclosures.
The second and third days were similar to the first; but fewer people attended, and fewer hogs were killed.
Juan made them very welcome, supplying them with a feast of wild hog, turkeys, oranges and other pleasant fruits.
Now there were lots of hogs running around, and let me tell you everybody had fresh pork for supper.
Now it is she who takes the upper hand, and pushes the hog-backed one before her through the water.
They seem men born to command; yet they command nothing, and live like pigs with the cows and hogs.
The great beasts, as heavy as elephants, were lying in bunches or rolling around like a lot of huge, fat hogs.
Our boys were shot down like hogs, and could not stand it, and fell back each man for himself.
In selecting a mother for my family of hogs I should care more about her individual character than about her breed.
The meeting, in great discontent, divided without a dividend; and, grunting like hogs, pronounced the whole a great bore.
The lungs of a hog are very similar to those of a man, and he found no difficulty in procuring these.
I have a strong wire fence around, and I cannot help thinking the hogs have been let in at the gate.
Do I know the nature of hog cholera, how to handle a case of infection, and how to prevent such infection?
He shall help there, he shall have fat broth to satisfy himself and in a year no hog shall be fatter.
"You mean to say that she has gone the 'whole hog' with him; that she has 'burned her boats'?"
They still raise fine breeds of cattle, hogs, sheep, and chickens, and this is a considerable source of income to them.
To pursue after the hogs was nearly hopeless: all sound of them was swallowed up in the tangle of scrub.
"Your pardon, Princess," said I, slowly, as she closed the gate after the last of the hogs and came forward.
Contrary to common belief, hogs have some habits which raise them above other domestic animals from the standpoint of cleanliness.
If you don't move over he will think you are a Hog for keeping that which is as much yours as his.
When your hogs are not thriving, give them the regulator and tonic prescribed on the first page of this chapter.
Take him up, and give him to the hogs, when, brutal as this sentence may appear, it was executed accordingly.
The love that dwells in one man is an angel, the love in another is a bird, that in another a hog.
A good dog will drive the hogs, and sheep, and geese out of the field, when they eat the corn.
Cattle, sheep, and hogs continued to run at large the same as if there was no law prohibiting the same.
Look round you, and if you have any idea of things at all what can you see but a miserable hog pen?
They brought a hog for this purpose, and with it and on it performed their rites as in other sacrifices.
In an incredibly short space of time they can kill any goat, chicken, duck, hog or dog on the place.
I pasture my orchard once in a while with hogs without rings in their noses, so they can hunt worms.
This should be strong and large enough so that the hog after it is cleaned may be properly hung up.
Sheep and hogs are their favorite prey, especially the latter, for bears seem to have a special relish for pork.
The sounds were like the shrill cries of a large hog which was having a knife plunged into his throat.
His cattle and hogs were of good breeds and to have seen to it that it was so he had found profitable.
The wild hogs furnish much sport to the natives, who hunt them with dogs trained for the purpose.
They can take up in their mouths and carry off with perfect ease an ordinary sized hog, calf, or sheep.
It was on this occasion that I happened to see one of these wild hogs running in front of a fast-approaching train.
And, besides, some of my men must have left the bars down, or your hogs could never have got in.
She proceeded to the place and found the hogs were just about to commence eating the remains of her husband.
Cattle and hogs are plenty, and wild game abundant, so that he could supply himself with meat in this country.
All hogs should have a warm, dry, well-littered pen to lie in, away from flies and disturbance of any kind.
I told him that I had shot an old hog and a little pig, at which he expressed great pleasure.
It is claimed that one hog that has been taught in this way will teach all others in the drove.
Tall, thin and capable of great speed, they were entirely different from any hogs he had ever seen at home.
This fence should be solid and so spaced as to prevent hogs and sheep from turning around in the tank.
And he pleaded that it was necessary to please the lower classes with nonsense, as hogs are fed with garbage.
By having all the hogs under one roof handling becomes simpler, and in case of bad weather much more convenient.
It was high time; the hogs and poultry, to say nothing of Kitty, having already got their full share.
When evening had come, the lad called his dog, and drove the hogs to his home in the forest.
I cannot say I am much interested in hogs, but even I could dimly comprehend the Captain's attitude of swollen pride.
Animals dead from any disease should not be fed to the hogs until the meat has been made safe by cooking.
There was one unexpectedly violent movement of the growth just opposite, and there he thought his hog was dying.
In all histories of animals, the hog stands a natural phenomenon, and alone in relation to his appetite and physical constitution.
More often than not encountered in qualified forms, e.g., 'memory hog', 'core hog', 'hog the processor', 'hog the disk'.
The carcass of the hog is plunged into this, and the hair is then removed with the edge of a knife.
We had a tolerable supply of meat for a short time, about the month of December, when he killed his hogs.
The hogs are first run through a great machine which takes all but a few stray hairs from them.
How far more rapidly the handling of iron, and hogs, and cotton, has developed than the handling of men!
Once I had a friend, a river hog, whom I tamed and kept in my house to play with my children.
The remarks that they make in hog language about the Food Controller on this farm would not look well in print.
A fellow says it is rather a strange request for the devils to make, to ask permission to enter into hogs.
The Wart Hogs, which resemble the true Hogs, are distinguished from them by the structure of their molar teeth.
A hog in armor; an awkward or mean looking man or woman, finely dressed, is said to look like a hog in armor.
While in the Mississippi country, however, they find other game, and feast upon the hogs of the woods' people.
We reasoned together, and came to the conclusion that if we would drive the dogs farther away the hogs would leave.
A stone wall which affords ample protection against sheep and hogs, may be quite insufficient for horses and cattle.
Nettle Rash is not contagious, but what produces it in one hog may produce it in several at the same time.
A short time after we arrived, a pretty large hog was killed; which is done by repeated strokes on the head.
In return, the Indians were to receive certain annual payments and were to be supplied with cattle, hogs, and farming implements.
This was quite a Godsend, and lasted us until we were able to kill two large, fat hogs, in the fall.
They were evidently of the well-to-do class, as they had a supply of meal and three or four hogs with them.
My neighbor's hogs have been taken from the pen, killed and brought home for consumption; his cattle the same.
Here he worked on public works until he started raising hogs and chickens which he continued up to about fourteen years ago.
"Just because you've always hogged the public land is no reason why you should always continue to do so," said Plant cheerfully.
When you have a mind to laugh, you shall see me fat and sleek with good keeping, a hog of Epicurus' herd.
Much less should I be prepared to justify him if, in his own home, he sank lower than the hog.
It takes the same labor to produce a fat hog or a fat ox, a sheep, horse, or mule, as in 1870.
The pork will be as crooked in you as ram's horns, and as great a nuisance as the hogs in the street.
There will be a loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, although there may be constipation when the hog is first affected.
He counted over two hundred conveyances and three thousand people, driving herds of cattle and droves of hogs before them.
I have seen good dogs that couldn't run an hour, simply because they were filled up with old dead hog or horse.
They shot our cattle and hogs merely for the sake of destroying them, leaving them for the ravens to eat.
The Indian was not aware of this occurrence until hours afterwards when he found his hogs wandering on the highway.
Keep the hog dry and warm after this application, and allow it to remain on his skin for three days.
"Well (replied the learned judge), no hog can become bacon till he is hanged, and then I'll allow your claim."
Tradition reports, that only one animal, a hog, was left alive in the town, and that more than half starved.
Those of the wild boar are erect and stiff, but those of the domestic hog are inclined and half pendant.
Somehow he had been careless and allowed the hog to make the journey in the hot sun without sufficient protection.
The hogs absolutely refused to enter the icy water, but the pioneer of that day was equal to any emergency.
Keeper of the Hogs, or Master of the Poultry, or Superintendent of the Fish Seines, would have been more to the purpose.
He had not yet run to the end of the rope, when an over-grown hog was brought to the table.
A hog cannot get through, for the lower latch prevents the gate from opening sufficiently to allow it to pass.
They soon began to arrive, some loaded with fresh beef, others with dressed hog, calf, and other articles of food.
These hogs, thus obtained, were shot down in their blood, and not otherwise bled; they were filthy to a degree.
This breed of red hog is becoming very popular on account of its constitution and ability to produce large litters.
This combination not only saves the lives of fat hogs on hot days, but also aids greatly in preventing cholera.
Thirty or forty heroes were leagued against a hog: the brutes (not the hog) quarrelled with lady for the head.