SWINE. 175 



SECTION XVI, 



Swine. 



THE above figure was taken of a sow bred from a 

 cross with the Chinese black breed, the property of 

 Arthur Mowbray, Esq. of Sherburn, Durham. 

 She was at the time suckling nineteen pigs, being the 

 third litter within ten months, the whole amounting 

 to fifty pigs. There must, however, have been a 

 mistake in the MS. with respect to the number of 

 months, since the period of gestation in the swine 

 is four months. In the accounts of extraordinary 

 number of litters in a year, it must be understood 

 that the pigs must have been taken early from the 

 teat, chiefly as roasters, since the sow will not desire 

 the boar again, until the turn of the milk. 

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