464 MODERN FARRIER, 



15. The Norfolk Breed. 



This is a small, short, up-eared, porking sort, Va- 

 rious in colour, white, blueish, striated ; generally 

 an inferior kind, which it would be to the interest 

 of that great corn county to improve : they are, 

 however, of a thin-skinned, quick-proving kind. 

 But in the vicinity of Lynn, and generally on the 

 Lincoln side of the county, there is a larger-spotted 

 variety of very good form and quality, which should 

 be encouraged. 



16. The Suffolk Breed. 



This is a small, delicate, white sort of pig, which 

 has for many years had great reputation ; and at 

 this time, there is not only a strong prejudice in 

 their favour in their own county, but they have 

 many advocates out of it. They are shorter, and 

 more pug-formed than the Norfolks ; and by their 

 dish-face and pendent belly, it may be supposed that 

 the variety proceeded originally from the white 

 Chinese. Some of the Suffolks are very handsome, 

 and very regularly shaped : their defects are, that 

 they are great consumers in proportion to their 

 small bulk, and that they produce little flesh. 



1.7. The Essex Breed. 



This is a sort which are up-eared, with long sharp 

 heads ; roach-backed ; carcases iiat, long, and gene- 

 rally high upon the leg ; bone not large ; colour 

 white, or black and white; bare of hair; quick 

 feeders, but great consumers, and of an unquiet dis- 

 position. A mixture of the tonky with this old 

 breed produced an improved and shorter variety, 

 called the halj-hlacks^ a very useful kind of pig. 



In other counties, also, there are manv other va- 

 rieties, which it is unnecessary to mention here. 



Of the smaller breeds the principal are, 



