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well adapted to field grazing. They thrive very well on grass 

 allowed little additional food. In this connection their whole black 

 colour is a great advantage as it enables them to be pastured or 

 field-fed without suffering from sun-scald. The sows are prolific, 

 and good milkers and mothers. 



Value for Crossing. Of late years Large Blacks have been in 

 good demand for crossing purposes ; the crosses with a Middle 

 White or a Large White Yorkshire, either way, are highly 

 successful. If a Large Black sow and a Middle White boar are 

 used, the result is the medium-sized Porker or Bacon Pig required 

 for the London trade ; by mating the Large Black with the Large 

 White the larger type of pig favoured in the Midlands and North 

 of England is obtained. 



Large Blacks are now found in nearly every part of the United 

 Kingdom, and they have been taken in large numbers to many 

 countries abroad, where, in very varied climates, they have given 

 every satisfaction. Among the couutries to which exports have 

 been made are South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Chili, Australia, 

 New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, China, and practically every 

 country in Europe. 



Large Black Pigs at the Smithfield Shore, 1902- LI. 



f 1903-11 only. 



THE TAMWORTH. 



The Tarn worth or Staffordshire breed is most numerously repre- 

 sented in the Midlands, particularly around Birmingham. It is a 

 good type of bacon pig, light in the offal, with a long, deep and low 

 body smoothly covered with firm flesh which contains a large pro- 

 portion of lean and gives the highest quality of bacon. 



General Appearance. The colour of the hair, which is abundant, 

 long, straight, and fine, is a golden-red or a dark chestnut on a flesh- 

 coloured skin, more rarely tawny grey. Curly or black or very 

 light gingery hair, a coarse mane, or black spots are all objection- 

 able. The light shades indicate too much of the Yorkshire blood, 

 which was employed to modernise the old slow-maturity Tamworth 

 type, the most nearly related of all our pigs to the wild boar. 

 The head is slim, the snout fine, the ears intermediate in size, 

 set on high, rigid, pointed, and fringed with hair ; the neck 

 sharp between the ears, light towards the head, but swelling towards 



