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prolific, and may easily be fattened to an enormous weight. This 

 breed is also found in Portugal and some parts of the south of Italy ; 

 it closely resembles the Siamese pigs, and has doubtless originally 

 sprung from them. The far-famed Bologna sausages are made from 

 che flesh of this animal. 



ITALY. 



Italy too is in some degree celebrated for its pigs, the best breeds 

 of which, like the Maltese, are small, black, destitute of bristles, and 

 delicate in flesh. The Neapolitan breed has been extensively ex. 

 ported, for the purpose of crossing with other kinds, and has found 

 considerable favor in many parts of England. In themselves these 

 pigs are not sufficiently hardy for general use, but, crossed with 

 rougher breeds, they yield a valuable progeny, fine in form, delicate 

 in flesh, and easy to fatten. There is a much larger race of swine 

 bred in the Duchy of Parma, and generally considered to be the 

 finest breed in Italy, in every point of view. 



In Palermo, Bosco, the environs of Rome, and the neighborhood 

 of Bologna, Count Chateauvieux tells us pigs are kept. Those at 

 Bosco, on the Apennines, he describes as a good breed, which the 

 farmers fatten on chestnuts and milk, housing them in the winter 

 and suffering them to run over the mountains during the summer. 

 At the farm of Campo Morto he found a herd of 2000, of the 

 domestic breed, and black. They run all the year on the immense 

 tract of land which extends towards the sea, are fattened on nuts and 

 acorns, and yield excellent meat. They are not indigenous, but 

 have been brought thither to stock the woods, and they are regarded 

 by the proprietor of that farm as the most valuable part of his 

 stock, for their keep costs him little or nothing, and they yield a 

 very good profit. 



The pigs he found on the marshy plains of Polesimo, between 

 Bologna and Ferrara, he describes as large, lean, thin-flanked, and 

 long-limbed animals. (Chateauvieux's Letters from Italy.) 



GERMANY. 



Pursuing our way to Germany we meet with totally different ani- 

 mals, submitted for the most part to an entirely different manage- 

 ment. The common breeds of the country are every where describ- 

 ed as huge, gaunt, long-legged, lean-bodied, greyhound-like animals, 

 with exceedingly long snouts and coarse bristles, forming almost as 

 much of a mane on t,he neck and shoulders as those of the wild 

 boar. 



In Prussia and many parts of Poland a rather smaller but scarcely 

 less uncouth race are met with, of a yellow or redd ! sh-brown color. 



