Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1890 — AUSTIN CORBIN'S BOAR COLONY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AUSTIN CORBIN'S BOAR COLONY

The Sort of Animals Brought from the Black Forest to Mew Hampshire. Austin Corbin, ex-President of the Reading Railroad Company, has imported a number of young wild boars and sows from the Black Forest of Germany and turned them out to pasture in his own forest of 21,000 acres in New Hampshire, where he has had such wild game to hunt as caribou, elk, moose and deer, but nothing to

test the mettle of the hunter. The member of Mr. Corbin’s boar colony that is depicted herewith is not full grown. He stands two feet high in front and eighteen inches in the rear. He is three feet long. His bristles stand out on his body like quills. Their color is a mixture of dirty yellow and dark-brown. The eyes are large and dark-brown, and the snout is as black as coal. This is the first attempt to introduce the wild lioars of Germany into this country, and is undertaken in the spirit of a sportsman w r ho, no.w that the panther has become scarce and the hear almost extinct in the American forests, thirsts for game that will be worth the hunting.

BLACK FOREST WILD BOAR.