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lent weight and quality for age, being equally good as a 

 " sucker " and a bacon pig, and producing the right class of 

 animal for the pork butcher, at 8 stones (of 14 Ibs. dressed pork), 

 12 stones, 1 8 stones, or any weight up to 40 stones. A sow 

 easily reaches 30 to 35 stones at twelve months old ; 40 stones 

 at twenty months after rearing a litter of pigs, and 60 stones 

 at three years old. The breed, although criticised for being 

 too heavy in the fore-quarters, and round and coarse in the 

 bone, is noted for hardiness and thrift, as well as for excep- 

 tionally heavy weights, and for being prolific. Seven is a 

 usual number at a first litter, and ten to twelve for a full- 

 grown sow bearing two litters each year. As the milk is 

 poorer after the rearing of the sixth litter, few sows are kept 

 after that time. 



Crosses are successful with other British breeds, especially 

 the Berkshire, Large Yorkshire, and Large Black. 



A Lincolnshire Curly-coated Pig Breeders' Association 

 (with Herd Book) was started in 1906 with a membership of 

 over 100. This important step will lead to the breed being 

 better known, and, on its merits, more widely appreciated. 

 The Hon. Secretary is Chas. Ed. Williams, Thornbayes, Slea- 

 ford, and the following are a few of the principal members : l 



J. S. Barber, Horbling, Folkingham ; J. Cartwright, Dun- 

 ston Pillar, Nocton, Lincoln ; F. Casswell & Son, Dunsby, 

 Spalding; H. Casswell, Quadring, Spalding ; H. Caudwell, Mid- 

 ville, Boston ; Wm. Dennis, Kirkton, Boston ; W. M. Epton, 

 Croft, Wainfleet, S.O. Lines; G. Freir, Deeping St Nicholas, 

 Spalding ; G. Godson, Asgarby, Heckington ; C. E. Harris, 

 Great Hale Fen, Heckington ; F. Martin, Hubbert's Bridge, 

 Boston (Chairman of Council of L.C.C.P.B. Assoc.) ; R. Mow- 

 bray, Gosberton, Spalding ; B. Rowland, Wainfleet, S.O., 

 Lines ; W. R. Sharpe, Swineshead, Boston ; F. Ward, Quar- 

 rington, Sleaford ; J. Ward, Moulton, Spalding ; T. Ward 

 & Son, Carrington, Boston ; W. H. Ward, Carrington, Boston. 



The Common White Pigs of Scotland possess some of 

 the characteristics of the Large Yorkshire for example, long 



1 Indebtedness for details of the breed is acknowledged to Frank 

 Martin, Henry Caudwell, and Thos. W. Lane. The superior strains in 

 the possession of the two first-named authorities have been in their 

 families for many years. 



