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PORk-Among the reports of the Worcester Agricultural Society, is a humorous one by the Committee upon Swine, which concludes in t..e following strain

 "In concluding the detail of their dongs the committee feel it their duty to remark, that SOL emn crisis in the affairs of swine impending. When corn has been frozen and potatoes parched, when the deposites of the graneres have been removed, and the desolae fields yield no surplus, the inquiry arises with startling force, what can the pigs do ?- It comes home to the pot and plate of every lover of his country. Our lands, our liberties, our wives, our children are dear and our pork is dear also, and grows dearer day by day. The subject is one of vast relations. Where would be patriotism without pork? where virtue, where valOr, where ancient faith, where modern degeneracy, without swine?- The soul of honor cannot ba sustained without the body of bacon The lamp of love would burn dim without sparerbs. The very face of fashion would grow rough without bristes to beautjfy its smooth ness"

 "But although the prospects of the race have been gloomy as the clouded heavens, that constan- cy and unconquerable resolution, alluded to by the President have been found in the pens. The spir- It of the Pilgrims pig still animated their success have heard no swine swear, they have seen none el eVatlng 1helr spirits by depressing other sprlts- none stopping to smoke long hines or chew pig tail. There has been no unswinish repnng at the allot ments of Providence. The only boar of the festi- val was noticed to wipe his eyes with his fore foot instead of pocket handkerchief, as if in tears but it was ascertained that he was only brushing way the rain drops. Such frmness, in wet and af fiction deserves the wish that it may be rewarded by sleeping many long summer day,in all the lux ury of mud with the soft green earth bcneath, and the bright blue sky aboye'