30 HAEKIS ON THE PIG. 



feeding have often more to do with the profits of pig 

 breeding and feeding than the mere question of large or 

 small breeds. 



On page 66 we give a portrait of one of his Prize pigs 

 of the Small Breed, from a steel engraving in the London 

 Farmers' Magazine for June, 1861. 



It will be observed that Mr. Mangles says he " found 

 any breed pay except the large breed." " All the crosses 

 having the small breed for the sire always paid." 



To the same effect is the testimony of Mr. Hewitt Davis, 

 a name familiar to all readers of English agricultural liter- 

 ature. He says: 



" My experience in stock keeping has been so decidedly 

 in favor of breeding and fatting of pigs, that I may, with 

 advantage to many who think differently, give some ac- 

 count of my management. That I should do so is the 

 more necessary from farmers having generally a very low 

 opinion of the profit to be gained from the breeding of 

 pigs, and I cannot but ascribe their failures too often to 

 the negligence with which this stock is looked after. On 

 an arable farm of 200 acres my stock has been 12 sows 

 and two boars ; and their produce, according to the season, 

 consisted either of rising stores running in the yards, or 

 on the leas or stubbles ; or of porkers in the sties fatting 

 for the market. From March to October my stock may 

 be said to have lived loose on store keep, principally green 

 food ; and from October to March (the parent stock ex- 

 cepted) in sties, fatting on roots and boiled corn. The 

 sows on an average gave me, one with another, 14 pigs a 

 year each, so that in summer my stock was about 100 up- 

 on store keep, and in winter about 200, of which 180 were 

 in sties finishing for market. The spring litters went off 

 in January and February as large porkers of 30 stones 

 (240 Ibs.) each, and the autumn-born as small porkers of 

 about 7 stones (56 Ibs.) each ; the first realizing about 5 

 each, and the last about 30s. each, so that each sow re- 



