Hog Raising And Hog Driving In The Region Of The French Broad River.

EDMUND CODY BURNETT

Publication: Privately printed, 1946, NP

First separate printing. Originally published in Agricultural History magazine, 20: 86-103, April, 1946. 8vo. Printed wrappers, double columns, 18 pp., footnotes. Fine. "A common nickname for the State of Tennessee has long been 'The Hog and Hominy State' and for the best of reasons. For more than three-quarters of a century the State's principal farm crop was corn and its principal product hogs. By 1840, when the State was scarcely fifty years old, it had taken rank as the first corn-growing State in the Union, and ten years later it held the rank of the first hog-producing State. Its hogs were marketed principally in the cotton-growing States, and, until railroads supplied transportation facilities, the markets were reached mainly by driving the hogs on foot. This was particularly true of East Tennessee and some part of Kentucky as well. Nowhere else, so far as I have been able to discover, was the driving of hogs from farm to market practiced on so large a scale for so great a distance and for so long a period."

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