Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — Inhabited Only By Hogs. [ARTICLE]

Inhabited Only By Hogs.

In the northern part of Limestone County, Alabama, says a writer in th» Pittsburg Dispatch, is a tract of lapd consisting of more than 1,000 acroa which is not on the map of the State, nor can it be found in the register’s office of that county. No one claims, it and no taxes have ever been paid on it. It is a vast wilderness, inhabited by snakes, deer and razor-back hogs. It is a free hunting ground and thousands of these hogs are killed every year, more for the sport than for anything else. The hogs are wild and cannot be domesticated. Their yield is said to be enormous. Tom Booth, of Pulaski, Tenn., secured a male and .female and did all in his power to tame them, but failed. Ho kept them a year and at the end of that time they were as wild as afc first. The more he fed them the thinner they became. Within the year they consumed 400 bushels of com and were as lean as church mice. During that time the sow had five litters of pigs, numbering 210. Mr. Booth could not tame any of these nor get - them fat enough to make even soap grease. Finally he gave them to a colored man, who now considers himself under no obligations to Mr. Booth.-' The flesh of these hogs resembles horseflesh. It is as tough as coon skin, and a large-sized hojf of this species rendered would not make grease enough to fry a skillet of batter cakes. They go through a garden like a shovel-plow, and no vegetable escapes them. They can crowd through a crack that would hardly admit a mouse and thefr sharp noses act as levers for garden gates. The Tennesseeans make great fun of Alsebarna’s razor-back hogs.