SWINE IN" ENGLAND. 



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pigs and shots (pigs from six to eight months old) are brought ovei 

 from England every year, and fattened in Scotland. 



ENGLAND. 



The original breeds of this country are now rapidly losing all 

 traces of individuality under the varied systems of crossing to which 

 they are subjected. Formerly they might have been divided into 

 two principal classes, the small and the large breeds : the former 

 having ears tending to the upright, being dusky in hue, and greatly 

 resembling the wild boar in form ; and the latter being long-bodied, 



THE OLD ENGLISH HOG. 



long-eared animals, mostly white or spotted. The former were 

 shiefly found in Scotland, and on the northern hills ; and the latter 

 in the lower and more midland counties of England, where the hog 

 had been more domesticated. 



Where individuals of the pure old breed are met with, they will 

 be found long in limb, narrow in the back, which is somewhat curved, 

 low in the shoulders, and large in bone ; in a word, uniting all those 

 characteristics which are now deemed most objectionable, and totally 

 devoid of any approach to symmetry. The form is uncouth, and the 

 face long and almost hidden by the pendulous ears. They neverthe- 



