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the snout being comparatively short, with breadth marked 

 particularly between the eyes and depth through the jowl ; 

 the eyes large, the eye of the hog being naturally small 

 and deep set ; the ears of medium size, pointed and thin, 

 carried well up, not lopped, although these features involve 

 to a large extent the breed of the hog, and close set at 

 the poll; the jowl, the region of the lower jaw, full and 

 deep, blending well with the lower part of the neck, 

 but trim, giving no evidence of being pendant or flabby ; 

 the neck hardly definable, it really constituting only the 



Fig. 137. — Points of the hog. u., snout; h, ear; c, neck; d, jowl; 

 e, shoulder ; /, back ; g, loin ; h, rump ; j, ham ; k, side or ribs ; 

 I, flank; m, belly; n, fore flank; o, foreleg; p, hind leg. 



union of the head with the body, and consisting of but two 

 dimensions, width and depth, without appreciable length, 

 as far as such a thing is possible in an animal structure ; 

 the top line making a sharp curve upward from the poll 

 to the top of the shoulders, while the jowl is continued 

 into the point of the shoulder and the brisket ; the so- 

 called shoulder vein, the thickest part where the neck 

 blends into the shoulder, especially full ; the shoulders 

 not having greater width than is carried throughout the 

 rest of the hog, but broad and compact on top, well laid in 



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