LECTURE NO. 14. 



SMALL YORKSHIRE SWINE ORIGIN AND HISTORY, 



CHARACTERISTICS AND STANDARD POINTS. 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY. 



I. The history of Small Yorkshire swine can- 

 not be traced with certainty beyond the year 1818. 



(1) Chas. Mason and Robt. Colling, both of Durham, kept 

 pigs of this breed at that date. 



(2) They were then designated Chinese, from which it is 

 inferred that they were possessed of much of the blood of 

 that breed. 



II. Early in the century there were several 

 breeds or strains of small white pigs in England, as 

 the Small Yorkshires, the Cumberland, the Solway 

 and the White Leicester. 



(1) The blood of these was apparently commingled in the 

 evolution of the breed as it exists at present. 



(2) The Solway and Cumberland strains gave added size 

 and vigor. 



III. Other small white varieties. 



(1) Several other varieties or sub-varieties with only .1 

 local reputation have appeared from time to time, as the Mid- 

 dlesex, Coleshill and Windsor, but 



(2) These are now generally looked upon as variations of 

 the Small White Yorkshire. 



IV. Distribution of small Yorkshires. 



(i) They have been bred in several counties of England 

 and have also been exported, though in limited numbers, to 

 various foreign countries. 



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