24 BIGGLE SWINE BOOK. 



The bacon type of hogs have more stamina than the lard type. 



Cheshires should dress from 500 to 600 pounds when fully 

 grown and fattened. 



A streak of lean arid a streak of fat. Breed for it, feed for 

 it, and give exercise for it. 



Two breeds of swine seldom long continue in equal favor 

 in the same neighborhood. 



Small Yorkshire and Essex have been called pig-pen breeds, 

 They are chunky, quiet and lazy 



The best breed is the one which will rear most pigs and 

 make most and best pork on cheapest food. 



Hogs with lopped ears are not so nervous as those with 

 upright ears. They make, as a rule better mothers. 



For the profitable sow lay more stress on good bone good 

 constitution and big litters than on a number in a herd book. 



The old razor-back has been driven from the pig kingdom, 

 and the perambulating lard tub will have to follow. Mix the lean 

 and fat. 



The breed is not so much consequence as the pig. In 

 truth, cross-bred pigs are the best for feeding. Cross-bred is not 

 grade. Grade is the result of crossing thoroughbred and native, 

 or .with no breed. Cross-bred is the offspring of two thorough- 

 breds of different blood. There is always more vigor and 

 stronger appetite, and better assimilation when blood is thus 

 united. 



