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white boar is almost invariably white, though dark and broken 

 colours frequently appear in after-crosses. 

 ''' The "tawny or reddish colour" in this breed referred 

 to by Lowe and illustrated in his collection of paintings in 

 Edinburgh University, has disappeared ; but it comes out 

 in second or later crosses from white sows, and it remained 

 long in evidence in the pure breed in the form of reddish 

 patches all being an indication of the relationship of the 

 breed to the chestnut-coloured native pig. 



The breed is to some extent indebted for its world-wide 

 popularity to the prominent position gained for it mainly by 

 the persevering efforts of William Hewer of Sevenhampton 

 and the Rev. H. Bailey "of Swindon, two enthusiastic and 

 successful breeders, as early as 1862, when the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society of England gave it a separate class at the 

 show. Hewer, before the days of sensational prices, sold 

 the year's produce, newly weaned, of one sow at 150, or 

 10 apiece. The next prominent breeders were Captain 

 Stewart of Gloucester ; Russell Swanwick, Royal Agricul- 

 tural College Farm (who sold "Sambo II." to go to Canada 

 at ^"75 about 1870, and frequently sold sows at 2$ and 

 ^30); William Hewer, junior, Wheeler & Son, and Fowler 

 of Aylesbury, and Heber Humfrey, then of Kingstone Farm, 

 Shrivenham, Berks. The latter was one of the first breeders 

 to refine the rough type of Berkshire, winning prizes at 

 Bristol Show in 1864. He was a first-rate judge, kept a 

 very large herd of pigs, which took hundreds of prizes, and 

 he exported many to America. He was chiefly instru- 

 mental in the promotion and formation of the Breed Society, 

 of which he was, for twenty years (till his death in 1904;, 

 Permanent Secretary, and the compiler of the Herd Book or 

 Annual Volume of pedigrees. His son, Edgar Humfrey, 

 was appointed to succeed him. 



The following is a list of the names and addresses of the 

 early breeders who, on August 25, 1884, signed the Memor- 

 andum and Articles of Association of the British Berkshire 

 Society : 



Alfred Ashworth, Tabley Grange, Knutsford ; Nathaniel 

 Benjafield, Shortsgreen Farm, Motcombe, Shaftesbury ; Heber 

 Humfrey, Shippon, Abingdon, Berks, Secretary ; John Pitt- 

 man King, Rectory House, North Stoke, Wallingford ; Robert 



