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11. The Herefordshire JBreed. 



This is also a large useful breed. The writer on 

 Live Stock thinks it a variety of the Shropshire, or 

 an intermixture which cannot now be traced. He 

 says they are shorter, have less bone, and lighter- 

 heads ; ears smaller, thinner, and more pointed ; 

 coats somewhat less harsh than those of Shropshire; 

 and are quicker feeders; colour originally light. 

 There may be found in this breed many individuals 

 of the truest form ; they are generally good sound 

 stock, full of growth, and assuredly among the most 

 profitable bacon-hogs we have. 



12. The Wiltshire Breed. 



This is a long-bodied low hog, hollow about the 

 shoulder, and high on the rump ; middling, laige, 

 pointed ears ; round bone ; light in colour. It is 

 stated by the above writer on Live Stock, that of 

 late years this breed has been crossed with the pug 

 and tlie Berkshire sorts, and that the new variety 

 a,ppeared to him smaller than the old breed, and 

 darker in colour, spotted, with round carcase, hand- 

 some pug face, and some with prick-ears ; and that 

 tbis cross is by no means a new thing. 



13. The Yorkshire Breed. 



This, in the old kind, was, it is said by the writer 

 above cited, probably the worst large variety we 

 had ; extremely long-legged and weak-loined, their 

 constitution not of the soundest sort ; and bad sty- 

 pigs in the winter season ; they were yet quicker 

 feeders than some of the superior breeds. 



14. The Northamptonshire Breed. 



This breed was formerly a liandsome, light-eared, 

 white, deep-sided pig, with middling bone, and 

 quick of proof; the breeders have since tried the 

 new Leicester, but without success. 



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