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they should dress four hundred to five hundred pounds, and pigs at nine 

 months old should dress from two hundred fifty to three hundred 

 pounds. 



Cheshire, or Jeflferson County Swine. These hogs originated 

 in Jefferson county, New York, and it is claimed by some of the breeders 

 that they started from a pair of pigs bought of Mr. Woodford, of Albany, 

 New York, which were called Cheshires. However that may be, there 

 is no such distinct breed of hogs known as Cheshires, in England, and 

 there is no record of any hogs of this name having been imported into 

 this country. 





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Sxida of Oxford. tsizb eibs. ^asnuin 2a3. 



ENGLISH SMALL WHITE PRIZE PIGS, USUALLY CALLED THE SMALL 



YORKSHIRES. 



Yorkshires have been imported into Jefferson county from time to 

 time, and the so-called Cheshires have been improved by crossing 

 with their best hogs bought in Canada. Mr. A. C. Clark, of Henderson, 

 was, for a number of years, a prominent breeder of these pigs, and when- 

 ever he found a pig better than those he owned, he purchased it and 

 crossed it upon his own stock. In this way this family of hogs have 

 been produced, and they are known and bred in many portions of the 

 United States. 



