Swine Feeding On Acorn Mast

item
Title
Swine Feeding On Acorn Mast
Extent
26.31 x 37.55 cm
Is Part Of
Watercolour Collection
Description
View is circa 1790s ;
en-CA Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Government of Canada Local Initiatives Grant AK 2403-9 1974 - 1975 ; Research by George Seibel ; In 1765, Robert Rogers described this area "as being thinly timbered with lofty oaks, which at first view, one would be apt to think were artificially transposed." The Loyalist farmers' hogs throve so well on the acorn mast covering the floor of the oak forest that farmers often "killed them out of the woods, well fatted on nuts" excerpted from Mark of Honour by Hazel C Matthews, page 129 ;
Type
Still Image
Medium
Watercolour
Subject
Animals
Pioneers - Ontario - Niagara Falls
Agriculture
Location
Canada
Canada - Ontario - Niagara Falls
Identifier
http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=102752
locator
WC 61
Rights
©Niagara Falls Public Library
Publisher
Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation
Date Created
2005-02-16
Date Modified
2005-02-16