LARGE HOGS. 



some parts of France, they SKIN tlieir pigs intended 

 for fresh meat. 



A pig will eat two or three PECKS of corn or meal 

 per week, in fattening ; a hog upwards of a bushel, 

 in proportion to his size. The following is an ex- 

 ample of successful feeding. " In the spring, 1805, 

 Mr. Ivory, of Whitchurch, Salop, killed a hog of two 

 years old, one side of which weighed 4101bs., the 

 other 4141bs., total 46 score 14|lbs. or about 111 

 stone, dressed country fashion. He was purchased 

 very lean at two years old, price four guineas, was 

 fattened in between seven and eight months, and 

 then valued at eighteen guineas ; subsequently 

 twenty-five guineas for him were offered and refused." 

 This hog probably made upwards of thirty pounds at 

 the then price, and might have consumed full forty 

 bushels of corn. The Shropshire was formerly one 

 of the largest, if not the largest, breed of hogs in 

 Britain ; I have fed many of them. 



I have at length, through Mr. Squire, obtained 

 the weight of Mr. Crockford's hog, bred and fed at 

 his fine farm near Newmarket, scarcely, I under- 

 stand, to be paralleled in England, for its excellence 

 of arrangement, convenience and style of buildings. 

 The hog, when killed, was two years old, and weighed 

 seventy-eight stone, horseman's weight, fourteen 

 pounds to the stone, or one hundred and thirty-six 

 stone and a half, London weight. The hams weighed 

 six stone each, and head fifty pounds. This hog 

 having been got by a boar bred at Mr. Crockford's 

 farm, out of a sow bred in the neighbourhood, is 

 warranted of the true Suffolk breed. That it was 



