234 British Varieties. 



crosses has been to abate and reduce the 

 redundant size and bone of our native stock, 

 and to substitute superior delicacy of flesh 

 and aptitude to fatten ; both which views 

 have succeeded, the latter, in the judgment 

 of the author above quoted, in an inordinate 

 degree. 



FRITISH VARIETIES. 



For our varieties of pigs at large, I 

 repeat my reference to the General Trea- 

 tise on Cattle, the only book, probably, in 

 which they have ever been enumerated and 

 described, tlie author himself having been a 

 considerable breeder and feeder. It will be 

 sufficient to advert to the most material, and 

 most noted, which are — the Berks, Hants, 

 Hereford, Shropshire, Yorkshire, and 

 Midland county, for large size as bacon 

 hogs; and to the Oxford, Bucks, Essex, 

 Suffolk, and Norfolk, as smaller breeds for 

 pork feeding. All the above breeds are 

 more or less imbued with foreign blood, the 

 larger breed, chiefly through the medium of 



