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We are deeply grateful to the good people of your beautiful city for the opportunity which their kindly interest in the proceedings of our Association affords us of contributing, in an humble way, a moiety to the great movement of reform now in progress throughout the civilized world. Other reformations the world has seen and benefited by-but they have been characterized by the bonds of tribal union; the impulses of honor; the dread of infamy; or the sanctions of religion, while the present world-wide movement knows no selfish end, but seeks simply to ameliorate the condition of the whole human race through self-forgetfulness in the family and social relations; purity and honor in public life; true worth in manhood and womanhood; and noble, untiring, self-sacrificing effort in the whole sphere of public action.

Seven years ago the Ohio State Sanitary Association was organized in Columbus, and began its labors in this new field. To-day it points with pardonable pride to a State Board of Health, and nearly two hundred local boards in various parts of the great State of Ohio. It has enlisted the active support of the very best element in society. It has drawn a devoted following from pulpit and bar, from counting-room and workshop, from the busy marts of trade and the quiet walks of private life. With no sectarian leanings-no hope or promise of personal gain, or partisan reward, it has but one aim-that of preserving health and prolonging life. Its deliberations have been published and scattered broadcast throughout the land. The seed thus sown has been nurtured into activity, and everywhere are seen the evidences of a bountiful harvest rich in blessings for neglected humanity. We may not see the full fruition in our time, but we may continue the part of the trustful husbandman, in the spirit of the great painter Reubens, who, when asked why he devoted so much time to a single picture, replied, "I paint for posterity." "I paint for posterity." We do not know that harvest will follow the seed-time, but the trust which God has planted within us is so strong

*The Presidential Address before the Ohio State Sanitary Association, November 21, 1889.

that it answers the purpose of foreknowledge, and gives us a basis for the plans necessary to the full consummation of our work. But I must not forget that the main purpose of my address is to present a paper. The subject is a very commonplace one. It relates to the use of that small-sized pachyderm, zoologically known as sus scrofa, as an article of food. This four-footed, omniverous, cartilagenoustrunked, and sub-cutaneous-fat-secreting animal, is vulgarly called

THE HOG.

The hog differs widely in its general appearance--ranging from the attenuated razorbacked, forest-roaming denizen of the South, with features sharp enough to drink buttermilk from a jug; to the plump, rosy-skinned, sumptuously faring domestic pet of the North, with a double chin and laughing face of the contented epicure. The hog discovered America shortly after Columbus-in fact he accompanied the latter on his second voyage in 1493, and landed in Hayti. He made his way subsequently into Florida with De Soto, about the year 1538. These hogs, however, differed widely from the hog of to-day. They were coarse, large boned, and deficient in fattening qualities. The first importation of a finer stock was made by General Washington, rather General Washington was the recipient of a present from the Duke of Bedford of a trio of improved breed to which Washington gave the name of Bedfords, as a grateful acknowledgment of the Duke's kindness.

The finer breeds for which the United States is to-day noted include the Chester Whites, the Poland Chinas, the White Suffolks, the Isles of Jerseys, the Red Cheshires, the Victorias, and the Berkshires. All of these owe their finer qualities to a common parent stock of China and Neapolitan strains.

The hog being an omniverous animal, owes its highest development to a very generous diet. During its early and rapid growth, its food should contain a large percentage of the phosphates and nitrogenous compounds, or bone and muscle producing elements, and a small percentage of the carbonates, or fat-producing compound. Indian corn is rich in the latter, and is used almost exclusively in preparing the hog for the market.

Clean, wholesome diet brings pork to its highest perfection, when used as an article of food; but the most careful diet, and thorough breeding, has failed to eliminate certain disorders which are a constant menace to good health to consumers of pork; of these disorders we will mention two-scrofula and trichinosis.

From remotest antiquity the unclean habits of the hog have challenged man's aversion and disgust. The Egyptians, the Ethiopians, the Libians, the Comani, the Scythians, the Galatians, the Zabbi, the Hindoos, and the Phoenicians abominated and detested the dirty, mire-loving swine. "Mohammed denounced its use as food, and the Bedouins consider it the only object whose touch is pollution. The Egyptian priests inveighed against it, declaring that it engenders" many superfluous humors. The Talmud, or general code of Jewish laws, states that "ten measures of pestilential sickness were spread over the earth and nine of them fell to the share of pigs." Plutarch and Tacitus speak of the detestation in which the hog was held by the people of their time on account of the "leprous emanation appearing upon his belly." Herodotus, and a host of more recent chroniclers, unite in ascribing various disorders to the use of pork as food. What the hog was 2000 years ago

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