430 Pork Production 



here the breed found more congenial environment and has 

 since enjoyed a reasonable degree of popularity. 



The Tamworth as now bred is of the extreme bacon 

 type, long, smooth, and deep-sided. The sows are re- 

 markably prolific, the pigs are excellent rustlers and good 

 gainers and are of the type which produce meat suitable 

 for the manufacture of fine bacon. 



