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Sweden, and they are mentioned by the ancients. 

 Mr. Coke of Holkham had a breed of them about 

 25 years since, and they were also occasionally to 

 be found in the neighbourhood of Windsor: the 

 Publisher has lately (March 1834) had a specimen 

 of this variety in his possession ; it was consigned, 

 by Mr. Revett of Chelmsford, to Mr. John Cross 

 of Leadenhall Market. 



USES. 



The well-known culinary uses of swine's flesh 

 are as ROASTING PIG and PORK FRESH and 



PICKLED PORK BACON HAMS BRAWN SAUSAGES 



of various kinds PUDDINGS of the blood ; whilst 

 the LARD is valuable both for kitchen and medicinal 

 use, and the SKIN, BRISTLES, and HAIRS, for the 

 purposes of manufacture. 



Bacon, in consequence of the vast quantities im- 

 ported from Ireland, has been retailed in the me- 

 tropolis, during the last and in the present year, at 

 the reasonable prices of from 4J. to 8d. per Ib. In 

 dressing our bacon hogs (Hants) we always singed 

 them : the practice also of Berks ; whilst most 

 or all of the other bacon districts scald. It is re- 

 markable, that little or no bacon has ever been 

 made but in the West, and in London, the East- 

 ern districts generally preferring pickled pork, and 

 being purchasers of the inferior quantity of bacon 

 consigned. I never could discover any difference 

 in the flavour or quality of bacon, whether singed 

 or scalded. 



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