498 THE PIG 



In 1827 W. K. Townsend of East Haven, Connecticut, 

 imported from England some Norfolk Thin Rind pigs. These 

 were black dotted with white, or white belted with black, and 

 were blocky of type, short-legged, fine of hair, and vigorous. 

 Kneeland Todd and his brother Isaac bought a boar of this 

 breed, and a white sow of medium size of a breed known locally in 

 Connecticut as the Grass breed. No doubt this sow was an Irish 

 Grazier. In 1830 the Todd brothers removed from Connecticut 

 to Ohio and brought these two pigs with them. These were 

 bred together in Ohio with considerable success, producing pigs 



Fig. 230. Jackson Chief 4759, grand-champion Chester White boar at the 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904. Bred and exhibited by L. L. Frost 

 of Missouri. Photograph from the National Stockman and Farmer 



that would dress 365 pounds at nine months of age. In 1833 

 Joseph Haskins removed from Massachusetts to Wakeman, 

 northern Ohio, and took with him a pair of pigs, a boar of the 

 Byfield breed, and a sow pig similar to the one brought from 

 Connecticut by the Todds. The Todd and Haskins pigs were 

 bred back and forth until 1848. That year Isaac Todd bought 

 from Joel Meade of Norwalk, Ohio, a large white boar which 

 the seller called the Large Grass breed. This was used in his 

 herd on account of its good-feeding and early-maturing quality. 

 In 1862 Isaac Todd secured a so-called Normandy boar of un- 

 known breeding, white in color, said to be of French ancestry. 



