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Publisher having committed to the editor the task of combining in one, the two volumes of "Youatt on the Hog," and "Martin on the Hog," he has endeavored to so unite them, as to offer in one the full substance of both. These two works are the best in our, or any language, on the subject of the Hog. Youatt is eminent and superior in his historical, descriptive, and veterinary portions, and Martin in his Natural History of Swine. The Editor has taken Youatt's work as the basis, which he has preserved entire, and has incorporated therewith such portions of Martin as are not in Youatt, and are not repetitions.

The volume now presented is superior in its material to any other on the subject of the Hog now extant, in all its departments of natural history, in the history of the relations of the animal to man. in its veterinary, or surgical and medical treatment, and in one breeding, feeding, fattening, and general economy of the Hog.

A. STEVENS.