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do not make good bacon, and are often too fat and oilj to be gener- 

 ally esteemed as pork.' The females are sometimes singularly 

 prolific. The improvement which has been effected by means 

 of the Chinese race, has resulted in the first place from lessening 

 the bone and increasing the aptitude to fatten in the stocks with 

 which they have been crossed, and afterwards selecting as a breeding 

 stock such as possessed the requisite points as to symmetry. 





IMPROVED SUFFOLK, 



" This breed is one of the most highly esteemed and valuable in 

 the world. Its origin, according to Youatt and INIartin, is the old 

 Suffolk crossed with the Berkshire and Chinese. Youatt says, ' those 

 arising from the Berkshire and Suffolk are not so well shaped as 

 those arising from the Chinese and Suffolk ; being coarser, longer- 

 legged, and more prominent about the hips.' He concludes : ' On 

 the whole, there are but few better breeds in the kingdom than the 

 Improved Suffolk.' He states that the greater part of the pigs at 

 Prince Albert's farm, near Windsor, are of this breed. Martin says, 

 ' this breed stands first,' and he describes the animals as ' rather 

 small, but compact, short-legged, and small-headed ; the body is 

 round, and they fatten readily.' Rham, in his ' Dictionary of the 



