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that the modern Manchester boar, the improved Suffolk, 

 the improved Middlesex, the Coleshill, and the Prince 

 Alberts or Windsors, were all founded on Yorkshire- 

 Cumberland stock, and some of them are merely pure 

 Yorkshires transplanted, and re-christened." 



Speaking of the pigs kept in the dairy district of 

 Cheshire, he says : " White pigs have not found favor 

 with the dairymen of Cheshire, and the white ones most 

 used are ' Manchester boars,' another name for the York* 

 shire-Cumberland breed. ' Mr. Youatt,' he says, in an- 

 other place, * and all the authors who have followed him, 

 down to the latest work published on the subject, occupy 

 space in describing various county pigs which have long 

 ceased to possess, if ever they possessed, any merit worthy 

 of the attention of the breeder. Thus the Norfolk, the 

 Suffolk, the Bedford, the Rudywick, the Cheshire, the 

 Gloucester breeds, have each a separate notice, not one of 

 which, except the Suffolk, is worthy of cultivation, and 

 the Suffolk is only another name for a small Yorkshire 



BLACK BREEDS. 



If all the modern white breeds in England, of any 

 special value to the breeder, are Yorkshires, or York- 

 Cumberland and Leicesters, it is equally true that there 

 are but two breeds of black pigs that deserve any special 

 attention the Essex and Berkshire. 



" Black pigs and their crosses," says Mr. Sidney, <c oc- 

 cupy almost exclusively the counties of Berks, Hants, 

 Wilts, Dorset, Devon, and Somerset. Sussex has a black 

 county breed, and in Essex a black-and-white pig has be- 

 come all black. In the Western counties, the prejudice 

 against a white pig is nearly as strong as against a black 

 one in Yorkshire. In Devonshire, white pigs are supposed 

 to be more subject to blistering from the sun when pas- 

 turing in the fields. 

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