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as black or spotted with red and about the size of a Berkshire. 

 He also states that there are "a considerable number of white 

 pigs in Hampshire." Sanders Spencer, an acknowledged British 

 authority on the pig, in correspondence assures the author that a 

 belted breed of swine has not been known in Hampshire. In his 

 most recent work Mr. Spencer says 1 that the Hampshire pig re- 

 minds one somewhat of the large black pigs found in the west of 

 England, whence perhaps stock pigs have been brought. Walker, 

 in 1905,2 gives a picture of three Hampshire pigs, black in color, 



with erect ears, sug- 

 gesting an Essex, 

 excepting for a some- 

 what straight face. 

 The author has dwelt 

 somewhat at length on 

 this subject to set forth 

 the character of swine 

 natural to Hampshire, 

 England, and to show 

 that there is no logical 

 reason to give that 

 name to a belted breed. 

 In fact, with a recog- 

 nized black Hamp- 

 shire in England, it would seem unfortunate to attach the same 

 name to quite a different breed in another country. 



The recognition of a belted, or sheeted, breed of swine dates 

 back to early in the nineteenth century. In 1842 there was pub- 

 lished in London a special edition de luxe of Low's " Breeds of 

 the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands," containing large 

 and beautiful illustrations in colors. One page is of a rough- 

 looking, lop-eared sow with white belt, white head, and white legs. 

 This illustration is given the title of an " Old English Sow from 

 the Midland Counties," and in the chapter on the " Old English 

 Breed," of which this picture is a part, no reference whatever is 

 made to Hampshire as the home of this belted hog. In fact 



1 Pigs : Breeds and Management. London, 1898. 



2 Pigs for Profit, p. 132. London, 1905. 



FIG. 349. "A portrait of a Norfolk Thin Rined Hog." 

 From an engraving printed about 1 840, sent the author 

 by the late W. R. Goodwin of the Breeders' Gazette 



