The agricultural expert was scandalized.

He told the farmer he ought to begin at once to raise hogs.

'You can feed them what you feed the dogs,' he said, 'and have good meat for your family aside from what you sell.' "After hearing his visitor out, the farmer looked off across the country and spat ruminatively.
"'I ain't never seen no hawg that could catch a fox,' he said, and with that turned and went into the barn, evidently regarding the matter as closed.

Clearly he did not share the view of the Irishman who dismissed fox hunting with the remark that a fox was 'damned hard to catch and no good when you got him.'".