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X. Organizations. 



(1) The Improved Large Yorkshires are protected by 

 registration in the United States and Canada. 



(2) The American Yorkshire Association was organized 

 in 1893. 



XL Distribution in the United States and 

 Canada. 



(1) They have already been introduced into several states 

 and they are kept in all or nearly all the provinces of Canada. 



(2) They are most numerous in Ontario, Minnesota and 

 Iowa, and in the order named. 



XII. Registration in the United States and 

 Canada. 



(1) In the Ontario record, 7,6n animals have been 

 recorded. 



(2) In the American record, 1,011 animals have been 

 recorded, of which 426 are boars and 585 sows. 



LEADING CHARACTERISTICS. 



I. Relative size. 



(1) The Large Improved Yorkshires are probably the 

 longest of the breeds, but they are not so broad as the Chester 

 Whites, and probably do not grow to such heavy weights, but 



(2) They weigh remarkably well for their apparent size. 



II. Adaptability. 



(1) Since they are especially adapted to the production 

 of bacon they can be kept with much advantage where bacon is 

 to be grown for the home or the foreign market. 



(2) They have special adaptation to the states of the corn 

 belt, owing, first, to the excellent limbs which they possess; 

 second, to their ability to rustle, and, third, to the renovating 

 influence which they exert when crossed upon types of weak- 

 ened stamina. 



III. Early maturing qualities. 



(1) They do not mature so quickly as the small types with 

 fine limb, but 



(2) They may be made ready for market without difficulty 

 at the ages of six to nine months. 



