66 BREEDS OF SWINE 



County, Pennsylvania, hence the name. Large, white pigs were 

 common in Chester County many years ago. They were taken 

 there hy the earliest settlers, but it is not clearly known where 

 the original pigs came from. About the year 1818, Captain 

 James Jeffries imported from England a pair of white pigs 

 which are referred to by some as Bedfordshire pigs, and by 



FIG. 20. Chester White boar, winner of many prizes at State lairs. 



others as Cumberland pigs. Captain Jeffries used the boar on 

 the white sows of the district with good results. It is stated 

 that, at a later date, white Chinese pigs were brought into 

 Chester County and crossed on the stock of the district. Eventu- 

 ally the different strains of blood were combined, and from this 

 combination came the original Chester White breed. 



2. The Improved Chester White, or Todd's Improved 



