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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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A BROOD SOW— THE PROPEETTt 

 THE DSSIKABLE POINTS OF THE FIQ. 



"Wk Lave the pleasure this inontli of presenting 

 to the readers of the Genesee Farmer a portrait of 

 a pig drawn by the celebrated artist, Thomas 

 Landseer. It must be a good hog that is worthy 

 to sit to such an artist I She belonged to the Duke 

 of Buccleugh, and Hentit Stephens, in his Book 

 of the Farm, describes her as possessing all the 

 points desirable in a breeding sow. These he 

 illustrates in fig. 1, which is a smaller cut of the 

 same sow. 



no. 1— BHooD sow. 

 The head a is small, the face tapering to the 

 snout t, which is short and fine ; the ears are set 

 on the crown of the head, being broad, thin, long 

 and 80 mobile as to indicate quickness of percep- 

 tion. The value of the head, as an article of food, 

 is indicated by the enlargement of the muscle upon 

 the cheek h. Tlie neck from oLto b is full ; the 

 back from Z> to c, bmad; the rump from e to d 

 full and round, and the roundness descends to the 

 hama; the ribs/ ara round ; the space behind the 



OF THE DUKE OF BUCOLEtJCH. 



shoulder at g filled up ; and so is the flank e ; the 

 shanks k are small and short, and finely tapered. 

 A pig with these properties is always in a condi- 

 tion for use, from the state of a pig sucking milk, 

 through its progress of porkling and shott, till it 

 attain the full size for bacon and hams. Such a 

 breed never requires feeding, and as it is always in 

 condition, it requires only time to grow to the size 

 wanted, wheu a little firming of the flesh by corn 

 soon prepares it for slaughter. 



FIG. 2 — SIDE VIBW or A W8LL TORMED PIG. 



The rules for judging a fat hog are .similar to 

 those given in the January number of the Oenesee 

 Farmer, yisge 18, for judging fat cattle. Both 

 should be as near a parallelogram in form as pos- 

 sible. To illustrate this we annex cuts of a fat ox 

 shown in different positions. The more perfect 

 the ox the more completely will it touch the rect- 

 angular parallelogram at all points. 



On looking at the pig, (fig. 2) we see that the 



