DAIRY PORK. 205 



before the revolutionary war with America. O 

 these, the great house at Lambeth, Stonard and 

 Curtis, had room for nearly one thousand, and that 

 of the late Mr. Suter, of the same place, the reputed 

 quickest, cleanest, and best feeder in England, 

 equally reputed for the quality of his stock, nearly 

 five hundred. Cooper of Bow, one thousand. At 

 the same period the distillers all fed hogs, Sir 

 Joseph Mawbey, at Lambeth, having sties to con- 

 tain two thousand. The great and constant suc- 

 ceeding import of Irish bacon, necessarily reduced 

 the number of hogs fed in England ; as on the other 

 hand, the general disuse of hair powder, which su- 

 pervened about the commencement of the French 

 revolution, the change of fashion, in all probability, 

 being introduced by Francis duke of Bedford, pro- 

 portionately diminished the want of starch. 



The markets for dairy pork, near London, of 

 which Barnet is the chief, have not of late years 

 exhibited those considerable numbers formerly ex- 

 posed to sale there, the demand being supplied 

 irregularly, and from various quarters. Indeed, 

 this market has, within these few years, been re- 

 moved from Barnet to Finchley. A similar change 

 has also taken place in the sale of dairy pork, 

 in former days almost entirely in the hands of 

 London Jew butchers, of whom now only one 

 remains, and he no longer purchases his pigs 

 alive, but has his pork ready killed, sent to him 

 from the country ; a practice become nearly gene- 

 ral. Dairy pigs are also bought at the dead mar- 

 kets of Newgate and Leadenhall. From such causes 



