BREEDS AND TYPES 63 



GUINEA HOGS 



The so-called Guineas are a red or sandy kind of hog, 

 known while slavery was in existence in the United 

 States, and no doubt they were first imported here from 

 the Guinea coast of western Africa in slave-trading 

 ships. They are thought to have been brought to the 

 United States soon after 1800, and perhaps had some 

 influence in developing the present Duroc-Jerseys. The 

 author has been unable to find any domesticated red hog 

 in any country where the slave trade did not exist, but 

 it is found in almost every country where the captured 

 Guinea negro slaves were landed. In Texas a breed 

 of black hogs partially of Essex blood is known as the 

 Guinea-Essex. They are solid black and have no red 

 or sandy color. A Portuguese hog was known over a 

 number of eastern states for some years before the Civil 

 war. They were first imported to Massachusetts for the 

 Daniel Webster farm, but upon landing were sold to 

 New York and Vermont farn.iers. These and the Jersey 

 Red hogs were all of a red or sandy color. 



THE cumo* 



There exists in some sections of Old }kIexico a type of 

 "hog" represented as the product of crossing a ram with a 

 sow. and the term "Cuino" has been applied to this rather 

 violent combination. The ram used as a sire to pro- 

 duce the Cuino is kept with the hogs from the time he is 

 weaned. A resident of Mexico has given the following 

 description of the Cuino: "The sow used to produce the 



* The origin of tlie Cuino, as given, is not vouelud for by the author. 



