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The Two Types of Large Black Pigs. The West Country pig 

 from Devon and Cornwall is the larger and more refined type, 

 while it is claimed for the East Country sort from Suffolk and 

 Essex that they are more numerous. They are probably also 

 more hardy and prolific, but a few years will blend the good qua- 

 lities of both. 



W e ight. While market fashion now demands a young carcase 

 weighing 160 to 190 Ib , a quarter of a century ago the practice 

 was to feed to maturity and attain the enormous weights of 40 score 

 (of 20 Ib.) and upwards. 



THE BERKSHIRE PIG. The Berkshire is perhaps the most widely 

 known and widely distributed of British pigs. It was one of the 

 first to be improved, and, being suitable to American conditions, it 

 has become one of the most successful breeds in that country. It 

 is black with a pinkish skin, with distinguishing breed markings in 

 a little white on the nose, forehead, ankles, and tip of the tail. 



THE TAMWORTH PIG. The Tamworth or Staffordshire breed is 

 most numerously represented around Birmingham. It is an ideal 

 bacon hog, exceedingly light in the offal, with a long trim body 

 very smoothly covered with firm flesh, indicating a desirable mix- 

 ture of fat and lean. 



Value for Crossing. The Tamworth crosses admirably with all 

 other British breeds, and produces a hardy commercial class of 

 pigs that are better able to withstand cold than pigs of some of 

 the more refined and delicate breeds, like the Berkshire. The 

 chestnut colour, although better than white, is not so well able to 

 resist sun-scald as black. 



THE LARGE WHITE ULSTER PIG. This breed has been known 

 in the North of Ireland in very much its present form for over 

 fifty years, although its origin is unknown and it was not a re- 

 gistered breed till about 1906. When the Royal Ulster Agricul- 

 tural Society, after consultation with the Irish Department of 

 Agriculture, decided to establish a Herd Book, a scale of points 

 was drawn up, and arrangements made to determine by inspection 

 the eligibility of boars and sows for registration. This inspection 

 is made by competent judges at various centres throughout Ulster 

 at a stated period each year. Before the end of 1909 there were 

 1 60 boars and 332 sows entered in the Herd Book. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries publishes the following 

 list of the Pig-breeding Societies in Great Britain, busides indi- 

 cations on Shows, prices etc. : 



