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HOG HOG. in zoölogy, Sus scrofa. It has hogs, as the Chinese, the Suffolk, the two large teeth or tusks in the upper, Berkshire, the Shropshire, the Northampton, and two in the lower, jaw. The body is the Neapolitan, etc. The point aimed at, is to make the animal quickly increase in flesh without increasing in     bone. Their period of gestation is about four months; they begin to breed at the HAMPSHIRE HOG covered with bristles. When wild it Is of a dark brindled hue, with soft short THE BABIROUSSA-EAST INDIA WILD HOG pointed, find pendent. The hog when wild feeds on beech-mast, chestnuts, WILD BOAR acorns, crabs, haws, sloes, hips, grass, and roots. There are many breeds of YORKSHIRE SOW age of 18 months to two years, do so twice in a year, and bring forth from 5 to 10, or more, at a time. The hog is wild in Continental Europe, many parts of Asia, and in north Africa. The horned hog, or babiroussa, is a native of the Indian archipelago. Its upper tusks are very long and curve backward. It has long legs and the flesh is good eating.

HOGARTH, DAVID GEORGE, an English archaeologist; born at Barton-on-Humber in 1862. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and from 1886 to 1893 was tutor at that college. He traveled extensively in Asia Minor and excavated many historic sites in that region and in Egypt. He was director of the British School at Athens from 1897 to 1900 and in 1909 was appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. His published writings include "A Wandering Scholar in the Levant" (1896); "The Nearer East" (1902); "Ionia and the East" (1909); "Accidents of an Antiquary's Life" (1910).

HOGARTH, WILLIAM, an English artist and humorist; born in London in 1697. He was apprenticed at an early age to a silversmith, but at the expiration of his term, in 1718, he took to engraving in copper. In 1730 he married the only daughter of Sir James Thornhill, against her father's consent, and set up for himself as a portrait-painter with considerable success. Hogarth now commenced his remarkable series of satirical painting reflecting on the social abuses of his time: viz., the "Harlot's Progress" (1734); the "Rake's Progress' (1735); and the "Marriage a la Mode" (1745). In 1753 he appeared as the author of "Analysis of Beauty,