THE MODERN ENGLISH BREEDS OF PIGS. 67 



stock of Earl Ducie and Mr. Wyley, of Bransby, near 

 York, and are of good size. I killed a sow this winter 

 that weighed 26 score 520 Ibs. 



"The ordinary weight is from 14 to 17 score 280 Ibs. to 

 340 Ibs. In some cases, where very thick bacon is re- 

 quired, they may be profitably got to 30 score 600 Ibs. 

 The Small Yorkshire owes its present superiority to 

 choice selections, and judicious crossing of different fami- 

 lies of the same breed ; by this means size is maintained 

 with character." 



These " Small Yorkshires " which this gentleman calls 

 as " pure as Eclipse," are descended from the stock of 

 Earl Ducie and Mr. Wyley ; but, as has been already 

 shown, Earl Ducie purchased Cumberland pigs from Mr. 

 Brown, and Mr. "Wy ley's original stock were White Lei- 

 cesters. 



Mr. Sidney says : " The wide extension of this Cum- 

 berland and York blood is to be traced wherever the 

 Royal Agricultural Society's prizes for white pigs are won. 



"Thus : Mr. H. Scott Hayward, of Folkington, a prize- 

 winner at Chelmsford, in 1856, in small breeds, with a 

 white sow, states that he has used boars from the follow- 

 ing breeders : The late Earl of Carlisle, Castle Howard ; 

 the late Earl of Ducie ; the Earl of Radnor, Coleshill ; 

 and at present (1860) one from the Prince Consort's stock. 



" The card of Mr. Brown's boar ' Liberator ' contains the 

 following pedigrees, and shows a distinct connection be- 

 tween Cumberland and Yorkshire, and all the most cele- 

 brated white breeds in the south : 



" ' Liberator ' was bred by Earl Ducie, got by * Glouces- 

 ter,' dam ' Beauty' by Lord Radnor's boar, gr.-d. 'Julia 

 Bennett ' by Lord Galloway's boar, etc. 



" ; Gloucester ' was bred by the Earl of Ducie, got by 

 4 General,' dam ' Hannah ' by the * Yorkshiremnn ;' gr.-d. 

 bred by the Earl of Carlisle, and purchased by Lord 

 Ducie at the Castle Howard sale. 



