950 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



spotted hog, as the most carefully bred specimens show but lit- 

 tle more white than the Berkshire. 



For the great corn-growing regions of the West, there is per- 

 haps, in the estimation of many practical farmers, no other breed 

 that equals this as a pork producer when purely bred, and cer- 

 tainly none that produces a finer and better hog when crossed 

 with the Berkshire. The description of this breed as adopted 

 by the Swine Breeders' Convention that decided on their name 

 is as follows : " They have good length ; short legs ; broad, straight 

 backs ; deep sides, flanking well down on the leg ; very broad, 

 full, square hams and shoulders ; drooping ears ; short heads ; 

 wide between the eyes ; of spotted or dark color. They are 

 hardy, vigorous, and prolific, and when fat are perfect models, 

 pre-eminently combining the excellences of both large and small 

 breeds." They fatten readily at an early age, and may be profit- 

 ably fed for pig pork, or if kept till eighteen or twenty months 

 old they make large heavy hogs. 



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POLAND-CHINA SOW, BLACKFACE MARY. 7,568. 

 Bred and owned by L. N. Bonham, Oxford, Butler County, Ohio. 



The above description, it will be remembered, was adopted 

 in 1872, and during the next ten years the prominent object of 

 breeders was to breed out the coarse heavy bone and ear, and 

 to produce a finer hog. In 1883 a convention of our best breed- 

 ers adopted the following scale of points : 



