92 HARRIS ON THE PIG. 



therefore, it may be concluded that, although the county 

 abounds in useful animals, it is not worth while to resort 

 to it either for establishing a new or improving an old 

 breed. Of his class, the Berkshire is a better animal than 

 the dark Hampshire hog, both having, when unimproved, 

 a want of thickness through the shoulder, which has been 

 corrected by a cross of Neapolitan or Essex, and both are 

 slow feeders. 



u The LINCOLNSHIRE PIG cannot now be distinguished 

 from Yorkshire. At the Lincoln Royal Agricultural So- 

 ciety's Show, the prizes were easily earned away by 

 Berkshires; but that proves nothing, as some judges 

 never give a prize to a white pig, and others never to a 

 black one. 



" The SUFFOLK, a white pig, once appeared frequently in 

 the catalogues, and in the prize-lists of the Smithfield 

 Club Show, but of late years it seems to have given way 

 to more popular names. Suffolk has a leading breeder of 

 pigs in Mr. Crisp, of Butley Abbey ; but he breeds both 

 black pigs and white pigs, and calls his black pigs Suf 

 folks, being a sort of cosmopolitan breeder, a purchaser 

 of the best pigs he can find of any color. His most cele- 

 brated pigs are quite black. Mr. Barthropp, of Creting- 

 ham Rookery, celebrated for his Suffolk horses, but not a 

 pig-breeder, writes of the swine of his native county in 

 terms which might be applied to almost every district not 

 distinguished by a thorough-bred sort. 'The old Suf- 

 folks were white, with rather long legs, long heads, flat 

 sides, and a great deal of coarse hair ; they made good 

 bacon hogs, but were not so well adapted for porkers as 

 the present improved Suffolks are. These are the white, 

 with short heads, and long cylindrical bodies upon short 

 legs, and fine hair, which breeders try to get long, fine, 

 and thin. These are the best Suffolks ; but there are a 

 great many about the county, the result of crosses with 

 the black Essex, which have 'no character,' although they 



