CHAPTER III. 

 PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS. 



BACON BREEDS. 



Tamworth Swine. The Tamworth is an English breed 

 and the extreme of the English bacon type of swine. It 

 is a large hog with considerable depth of body and not 

 very mu6h width. It can very easily be made to weigh 

 from 700 to 900 pounds and even considerably more. It 

 is reported that in recent years a Tamworth boar killed in 

 England weighed 1,607 pounds live and 1,330 pounds 

 dressed weight. Hogs of this breed are somewhat high 

 off the ground; that is, have quite long legs, considered 

 from the fat or lard hog standpoint, and have a snout 

 that is rather long and pointed, The neck is light and 

 muscular, the jowls are very light, and the ears quite 

 large and usually upright. The edges and points of the 

 ears turn backwards and are bordered with a fringe of 

 rather long, fine hair. While the legs of the Tamworth 

 are long, they are straight and very strong and the pas- 

 terns are somewhat sloping. 



The shoulders are light and set in the body smoothly, 

 the sides are long and deep, and the hams rather broad. 

 The back is strong and even in width, the rump is long 

 and of the same width as the back, with the tail, which is 

 quite long, large and bushy at the end, set on moderately 

 high. The color of the Tamworth is a red, resulting from 

 a golden red hair on a flesh-colored skin. Occasionally 

 there appears a small black spot on the skin, which may 



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