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Curtis, had room for nearly one thousand, and that 

 of the late Mr. Suter, of the same place, the reputed 

 quickest, cleanest, and best feeder in England, 

 equally reputed for the quality of his stock, nearly 

 five hundred. Cooper of Bow, one thousand. At 

 the same period the Distillers all fed hogs, Sir 

 Joseph Mawbey, at Lambeth, having styes to con- 

 tain two thousand. The great and constant suc- 

 ceeding import of Irish bacon, necessarily reduced 

 the number of hogs fed in England ; as on the other 

 hand, the general disuse of hair-powder, which su- 

 pervened about the commencement of the French 

 revolution, the change of fashion, in all probability, 

 being introduced by. Duke Francis of Bedford, pro- 

 portionately diminished the want of starch. 



The markets for dairy pork, near London, have 

 not of late years exhibited those considerable num- 

 bers formerly exposed to sale there, the demand 

 being supplied irregularly, and from various quar- 

 ters. From such causes it will naturally be inferred, 

 that pig-breeding has been neglected in this coun- 

 try ; and in truth, the stock of those districts which 

 I have just now quoted, is not equal in size and 

 form to that which they once possessed. The 

 Herefordshire, forty years since, were the crack 

 stores for the London feeders, and the Turners 

 were the chief men for collecting them ; but now it 

 seems both the Turners, (at least as pig-dealers) 

 and the large breed of Hereford and Shropshire 

 swine, are nearly extinct. Is Herefordshire, then, 

 one day destined to lose her large and noble breed of 

 oxen in the same way ? The vicinity of Peterbo- 



