CHAPTER


XVIII.


 LIVE-STOCK.

THE first sight of a pure in-and-in-bred Florida hog Or


cow is not calculated to in
ern climes, especially if he b
favorable impression of F
The hog, the genuine "cr
lank, wiry, quick-motioned
is a slander on the porten
call the Florida specimen a
the tail he is all of a size, ai
total length, the long and
ticeably long and thin legs.
The tourist always enjoys a
are hogs," and innumerable


expense.


part to the visitor from north-
ie from the stock-regions, a very
lorida as a stock-raising State.
acker" hazel-splitter, is a lean,
beast-a deer in hog shape. It
tously fat porkers of Illinois to
hog at all. From the snout to
nd the head is one third of the
thin body being placed on no-
 And how he can run, or root!
 hearty laugh when told "Those
 are the puns and jokes at their


The well-to-do Northern or Western farmer visit-


ing here is very sure to view them with downright con-
tempt, and to form a very decided opinion about the fitness,
or unfitness-mostly the latter-of Florida as a stock State.
 But such a hastily formed conclusion would be a great
mistake. Florida is a first-class State for live-stock, and
no one should feel any confidence in an opinion based on the
specimens of wild, uncared-for stock found roaming about
the woods.
 It should be said, moreover, that the Florida hog, in
spite of his looks, has many good points which deserve
recognition. In the first place, his meat is always tender
and good; and his lean hams are delicious, either dried,