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were confined to a limited breeding. The Reds resemble the old Berk- 

 shires in many respects, but are now much coarser than the improved 

 swine of the breed. 



Characteristics. A good specimen of Jersey Red should be red in 

 color, with a snout of moderate length, large lop-ears, small head in 

 proportion to the size and length of the body; they should be long in the 

 body, standing high and rangy on thin legs, bone coarse; heavy tail and 

 brush; hair coarse, including the bristles on the back. They are valuable 

 on account of their size and strong constitution and capacity for growth. 

 They are not subject to mange. 



Chester Whites. "The Chester County White hog is a native of 

 Chester county, Pennsylvania, where the breed originated. The first 

 impulse to the improvement of swine in this country was induced by the 

 introduction of a pair of very fine white pigs, brought from Bedfordshire, 

 England, by Captain James Jeffries, of this county, and put upon his 

 farm on the Brandy wine Creek, near Westchester, the county seat in the 

 year 18 18. Some of our most enterprising farmers, seeing these finely- 

 bred pigs, were induced to commence an improvement of their swine by 

 a cross of these, their progeny, and others of the best hogs of the county, 

 and by continuing a careful selection and judicious crossing for many 

 years, have produced the Chester White of to-day, a most desirable, well- 

 formed, good-sized, easily fattened, and perhaps the best bacon hog for 

 the general farmer in this or any other country." — Thomas Wood, in 

 Swine Husbandry. 



Characteristics. Head short, broad between the eyes; ears thin, 

 projecting forward and lap at the point; neck short and thick; jowl 

 large; body lengthy and deep, broad on back; hams full and deep; legs 

 short, and well set under for bearing the weight; coating thinnish white, 

 straight, and if a littly wavy not objectionable; small tail, and no 

 bristles. 



Yorkshires. "Their color and characteristics have been traced, in 

 a greater or less degree, into every popular breed of swine which has 

 been made upor attempted to be established as thorough-bred, either iu 

 the United States or England; indeed, into every breed, save the Essex, 

 or Neapolitan, imported by Eord Western. These are the only pure 

 bred black hogs either in this country or the old. It may safely be said 

 of these white hogs, that they are the only pure and distinct breed of 

 hogs or pigs, save the black, that are now bred on this continent. All 

 breeds in this country of mixed colors are what their color indicates — 



