JUDGING THE BACON TYPE OF SWINE 



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In the following discussion, emphasis will be placed on 

 those features that are specifically characteristic of the 

 bacon hog". Other features that have a similar significance 

 in both lard and bacon type, and which have already been 

 discussed in the case of the lard pig, need not be so exten- 

 sively considered here. Persons interested in the details of 

 judging swine should first be familiar with the pages pre- 

 ceding, that discuss the methods and details involved in 

 judging lard hogs. 



The general appearance of the bacon hog as compared 

 with the lard type, shows considerable length of body, dis- 

 tinctly less thickness and depth, a greater length of leg, 

 and much less fullness about the jowl, neck, shoulder and 

 ham. As an animal of this type walks about, the onlooking 

 judge is impressed with a conformation in which length 

 and narrowness are associated with a sort of litheness of 



Fig. 291. "The general appearance of the bacon hog, as compared with 

 the lard hog, shows considerable length of body, distinctly less thickness 

 and depth, a greater length of leg, and much less fullness about the Jowl, 

 neck, shoulder and ham." 



