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bred in Suffolk, or near to that county, there is no 

 question ; but having known the Suffolk breed, 

 through a long course of years, as one of the small- 

 est in England, and not being aware that it has been 

 yet changed, I must beg leave to question its being, 

 uncrossed, able to produce a hog of such a size. 

 Such a chance is not upon the breeding cards. The 

 fact is, pig-breeders, though in the vicinity of New- 

 market, are not quite so correct in regard to pedi- 

 gree, as the breeders of running horses. In truth, 

 not only pigs, but stock of other kinds, never fail 

 to be periodically introduced from districts where 

 large stock is bred, into those where the small are 

 established, and such individual introductions are no 

 longer recollected or noticed after a while, produc- 

 ing only limited and occasional enlargement qf size. 

 In Essex, for example, the up-eared breed, which 

 was originally, by comparison, small, became par- 

 tially enlarged, and the ear changed to the pendant, 

 by the introduction, many years since, of Berks, 

 Hereford, and Shropshire boars. The original prick- 

 eared breed yet remains, and it would be surely 

 impossible to select a pure individual of that kind, 

 capable of being fattened to equal the high weights 

 of which we occasionally hear. 



THE DISEASES OF SWINE. 



Little success has hitherto attended the doctoring 

 of swine, which are the most stubborn and intract- 

 able of patients. Thence PREVENTION is the only 

 remedy deserving of any considerable share of the 

 keeper's attention. This should chiefly extend to 

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