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them. A half century ago William Hewer of Sevenhampton, 

 Wiltshire, was a leading breeder and improver. 



Important modern improvers of the Berkshire in England as 

 well as America are worthy of record here. In England, Russell 

 Swanwick at Cirencester and the late Heber Humfrey at Abing- 

 don for years bred with signal ability and did much for the 

 breed. In America N. H. Gentry of Sedalia, Missouri, has long 

 held a most distinguished place as a Berkshire breeder. In a list 

 of prominent American breeders during the last twenty-five years 

 of the nineteenth century high place should be accorded to the 

 names of James Riley and I. N. Barker of Indiana, M. K. Prine of 

 Iowa, A. J. Lovejoy of Illinois, and J. G. Snell of Ontario, Canada. 



The introduction of the Berkshire pig to America first took place 

 in 1823, according to A. B. Allen, who credits John Brentnall, 





Fig. 222. Lyneham Lad, first-prize aged Berkshire boar at the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society of England Show, 1904. Owned and exhibited by Sir 

 Alexander Henderson. Photograph from William Cooper & Nephews, 

 Berkhamsted, England 



an English farmer, who settled in the English neighborhood in 

 New Jersey, with this importation. In 1832 Sidney Hawes, 

 another English farmer, brought some Berkshires to America 

 and settled near Albany, New York. Allen states that he owned 

 pigs descended from each of these importations. In 1838 a few 



