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rough, Northamptonshire, is said to produce some 

 of the best large-sized swine of the present day. 

 We thus exemplify the motto of the old Almanack 

 makers, omnium rerum mc'issitudo all things change. 



The West India Islands and the Azores ought 

 not to be forgotten, as producing a fine and deli- 

 cate breed of PIGS, originally, it may be presumed, 

 Spaniards, which have at various periods found 

 their way thither ; such have been used for the 

 purpose of refining our native breeds. South Ame- 

 rica has also a fine breed of pigs. At Lord Somer- 

 ville's show, in 1809, Mr. Gibbs, seedsman to the 

 Board of Agriculture, exhibited a black wild pig 

 from Monte Video. The sow and litter were im- 

 ported together, and were very savage. They were 

 deep in form, with very fine bone. One of them 

 fattened very young to twenty-four stone, and al- 

 though ripe and carrying a sufficient quantity of 

 flair, it had more flesh in proportion, in the opinion 

 of the butcher, than he had ever before witnessed. 

 There was the least possible offal, the inside seeming 

 to be filled with flesh. It was remarked that the 

 great gut was smaller than the smallest gut of a 

 small pig. This pork was excellent, inclining to 

 the savoury. 



It has never occurred, that lam aware, to our breed- 

 ers, to preserve any of the fine foreign varieties pure, 

 whence possibly a still more delicate pork might be 

 raised than any we at present possess, granting the 

 attempt were made with those which furnish mus- 

 cular flesh or lean, as well as fat. Some of the 

 wild swine of the opposite continent are well adapted 



