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TODD'S IMPROVED CHESTER-WHITES. 



DESCRIPTION AND CHARACTERISTICS. 



Color white, with occasionally bluish spots on skin; hair fine and 

 thick; head small; face slightly dished; ears fine, thin and drooping; 

 jowl full; neck short and well arched; shoulder heavy; back straight, 

 with broad loin; ribs well sprung, dropping to deep sides and low flank; 

 hams deep and rounded; tail small, and legs fine boned and straight. 



The following Scale of Points was adopted by the Record Associa- 

 tion at the annual meeting, January, 1885; C. W. Baker, Delaware, 

 Ohio, is the present secretary: 



Head 7 



Ear 2 



Jowl 4 



Neck 3 



Brisket 3 



Shoulder 6 



Girth around heart 9 



Back 6 



Side 7 



Ribs. . . 6 



Forward 53 



Loin 7 



Belly 5 



Flank 3 



Ham 10 



Limbs 6 



Tail TTF 



Coat. . . . . . '.'*.' 3 



Color 3 



Symmetry 8 



Forward . 53 



Perfection. 



TOOD'S IMPROVED CHESTER SOW, SWEEPSTAKES, 1454. 



Owned by N. H. TILLMAN, Arcanum, Ohio. 



Our illustrations, both of Chester- Whites and Todd's Improved 

 Chesters, can hardly be said to do justice to their respective breeds, but 

 will serve to illustrate whatever of difference there may be between them. 

 Many, indeed, are of opinion that there should be but one breed of Ches- 

 ter-White swine, and maintain that the two breeds here given separate 

 chapters will soon be combined under a compromise standard of regis- 

 tration. 



Whether such may prove to be the result or not, has no effect on the 

 present status of the two breeds; they are given a separate class at fairs 

 and exhibitions, and if the combination is not made very soon, there will 

 remain small probability of a union at any time. 



