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the fact that his sheep are of superior 

 quahty. 



We have met from time to time small 

 occupiers of land who have specialised with 

 pigs; and here there is every opportunity 

 for the small holder to succeed in the produc- 

 tion of stock of the highest class, the one 

 condition being the possession of the requisite 

 knowledge to buy and to breed. A man 

 accustomed to the management of pigs, and 

 master of his work, may safely pay a long price 

 for a breeding sow of the Large White or 

 the Large Black variety. Accustomed to rear a 

 litter of pigs for the butcher or the bacon 

 curer successfully, he will devote still more 

 attention — if that is possible — to the require- 

 ments of the sow which has cost him a larger 

 sum of money, with the result that he will 

 rear to maturity if necessary a number of 

 excellent youngsters, the best of which he will 

 be able to sell with comparative ease for stock 

 purposes. It is perfectly true that such a man 

 will be unable to compete with large and 

 popular breeders whose reputations have been 

 acquired by years of successful exhibiting, 

 but there are always buyers of exceptionally 

 good pigs in every district in which they are 

 all too few, and we have therefore no 



