1 66 BRITISH DAIRYING. 



Whatever sort a man may take up for breeding purposes, 

 it is sound policy to breed only from really good ones of that 

 kind. If pig-breeding is to be made to pay at all, it can best 

 be made to pay by using only animals that are well-bred them- 

 selves and of good quality and constitution. Of pig-breeding, 

 as of almost everything, we may say : "A thing that is worth 

 doing at all is worth doing well." 



Mr. Sanders Spencer, of St. Ives, Huntingdon, has a large 

 and very superior herd of the big Yorkshire breed, and has done 

 more, perhaps, than any one else to improve it. His pigs are 

 models of porcine symmetry and obesity, and are in considerable 

 demand for export to various countries. Holywell Manor, in 

 fact, is famous as the home of the best class of large White 

 Yorkshires extant, and has become the " Dishley " or " War- 

 laby " of the breed. Pig-breeding is hardly so aristocratic a 

 pursuit as Shorthorn or Shire Horse breeding, but it is emi- 

 nently useful in its way, and really valuable in a country 

 which annually raises from three to four millions of these 

 domesticated quadrupeds. With judgment, management, and 

 the required dash of genius, there is money in high-class pedi- 

 gree pig-breeding, but only the right men can make it. 



