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for its depth of body, producing a large quantity of bacon. It is 

 difficult to fatten, but produces very large litters of pigs. The legs are 

 long, the color is red, 

 and the head and snout 

 are long. 



The Thin Rind or 

 Hampshire probably 

 originated in England. 

 It is about the medium 

 size and is especially 

 adapted to foraging for 

 food in field and forest. FlG 2og _ Thin Rm(J 



It is not very widely 



distributed in America. The color is usually black with a white belt 

 about the body just back of the forelegs, which are also usually white, 



POULTRY 



Domestic fowls have a wide distribution throughout 

 the United States, but poultry raising as an industry 

 is not so widespread. Most farmers raise chickens, 

 ducks, turkeys, and geese merely as a means of supply- 

 ing their own tables with an economical and palatable 

 food. Incidentally, they market a few in neighboring 

 towns, when they have an oversupply or the price is 

 high. Yet the aggregate poultry product in the United 

 States has a value exceeded only by corn, dairy prod- 

 ucts, beef cattle, cotton, swine, and wheat. 



" The farmer's hen is becoming a worthy companion 

 to his cow. The annual production of eggs is now a 

 score of billions, and, after supplying the needs of fac- 

 tories, tanneries, bakeries, and other trades, they are 

 becoming a substitute for high-priced meats, besides 

 entering more generally into the everyday food of the 

 people. Poultry products have now climbed to a place 



