xi INTRODUCTION. 
the Chinefe race come fooneft to maturity, propagate fafteft, 
and for porkers are a very delicate and valuable article of 
ftock. . Their faculty of propagation, if clofely encouraged, 
is extremely rapid. And their power of living and thriving 
on grafs, clover, and other green vegetables, is moft remark- 
able. Their diminutive fize, indeed, renders them objects 
of only partial eftimation; but this is eafily corrected by 
admixture. And to fuch breeders as regard properly the 
utility of fwine, this produce is not the leaft amufive among 
the articles of breeding-{tock. 
The frequent killing of roaffing-pigs, at three or four 
weeks old, may be reckoned among the moit exceptionable 
Juxuries of the epicure; efpecially in a country where fo 
many thoufands of poor are often con(trained to live, for a 
‘long time together, without a tafte of animal food. . They 
might be far better accommodated by a more vigorous at- 
tention to the raifing and propagation of pork, by means of 
thefe faft-growing and excellent little animals.—But, if de- 
‘Ticacies are to be ftudied, it requires but little conformity of 
the palate to relifh the joints of fuch fimall porkers, as little, 
if at all, inferior to roafting-pigs taken from the teat. in- 
deed, one might reafonably confider the larger food as the 
moft removed from indelicacy of eating; certainly it is the 
moft nutritious. 
Large bacon, and the fubftantial ham, the produce of 
‘breeds on a larger fcale, will be called for, and of courfe 
they will be fufficiently fupplied by thofe who continue their 
preference to the large breeds of hogs; but the excellent 
famples of middle-fized fat and ftore {wine, partly a mixture 
with the Chinefe, which were produced at this Society’s 
Annual Meeting of the lait year, furnifhed not only the 
ftrongeft evidence of the value of fuch a mixture, but the 
moft full reconamendation of fuch a beautifully-compact 
breed 
