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White upon Large White, and animals produced in this way 

 should scarcely be regarded as a distinct breed. 



Distribution. The Middle White is unknown outside of 

 England, its native country, and, if any have been brought 

 to America, they were introduced under the name of Large 

 Yorkshire. 



FIG. 39. Middle White boar, an English Royal Show champion. 



Utility. The utility of the Middle White is necessarily 

 limited. The practice of crossing, followed by many breeders, 

 has told against the usefulness of the breed. Middle Whites 

 which have been bred pure for a number of generations would 

 no doubt prove quite satisfactory, but so many of them possess 

 recent crosses of other blood that the breed as a whole lacks 

 prepotency and trueness to type. The mixing of Middle White 



