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Concluded from page 1 

 in England Yorkshire Bacon Hogs pre- 

 dominate. That in itself is no great ar- 

 gument why men should start raising 

 Yorkshires here if they are satisfied with 

 their lard type hogs. But it is true that 

 New England agriculture is a vastly 

 different enterprise than our corn belt 

 farming, and surely our lard type hogs 

 have had their greatest development in 

 the corn states. 



With the exception of our garbage 

 feeders, our swine breeders are con- 

 cerned more about the price of sucker 

 pigs than they are about the price of 

 pork. With our relatively minute crop 

 areas we cannot feed our home grown 

 grains to hogs to make pork for market. 

 We should consider our hogs more as 

 scavengers to utilize our by-products and 

 wastes. Our farm hogs are found by ones 

 and twos, and far less than one per cent 

 ever goes to the packers. Half are sold 

 to local butchers, the other half is kept 

 for the home pork barrel. 



Now what has this to do with York- 

 shires? Being a bacon hog the carcass 

 is principally lean meat, and that class 

 of market prefers a quality of meat 

 which is not oily and where there is no 

 fat mingled with the lean. That kind of 

 pork cooks with much less waste. Now 

 for home use I maintain that a York- 

 shire far surpasses any lard type hog 



because this same quality factor is far 

 more important for the farmer who kills 

 one hog a year for home use than it is 

 to the city man who buys a couple of 

 chops. New England farmers don't real- 

 ize that our corn belt cousins always try 

 to pick up a Yorkshire or Hampshire pig 

 to use in the home. 



From the standpoint of the breeder, 

 Yorkshires are unquestionably the most 

 prolific hogs with the possible exception 

 of the Tamworth. If you want to raise 

 a litter of pigs which sow would you 

 pick, one which would raise six or ten 

 pigs? The sow in the picture has aver- 

 aged twelve and one third pigs in nine 

 litters and she is not exceptionally pro- 

 lific for a Yorkshire. I know of a York- 

 shire sow in Massachusetts that has had 

 not less than 21 pigs in each litter, and 

 now she is well along in years. The 

 question of success in hog raising here 

 hinges very largely on this question of 

 prolificacy. As I explained above, most 

 men keep a couple of pigs to clean up 

 their wastes. Now if you kept a sow and 

 wanted to keep one or two pigs wouldn't 

 it make a lot of difference in your re- 

 ceipts if you could sell four more pigs. 

 And I believe this is a fair statement of 

 the fact, that you can get about four 

 more pigs to the litter with Yorkshires 

 than with any breed of lard hogs. 



H. C. Barton. 



