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the people were more or less isolated by communities, 

 especially in the sections of the country where they were, 

 by topographical nature, cut off from the other parts of 

 the country. Conditions in different localities of an 

 island country like Great Britain are decidedly different 

 and the likes and dislikes of the people in different lo- 

 calities probably were different, some perhaps preferring 

 white hogs, some black hogs, some even red hogs, others 

 hogs of the bacon type and still others hogs of the fat or 

 lard type. Thus the isolated communities in developing 

 their live stock produced various types of swine which re- 

 sulted in the foundation stock for the different breeds as 

 found in recent years. 



AMERICAN BREEDS. ' 



The breeds that originated in the United States are 

 called the American breeds and were developed under 

 entirely different conditions from those in Europe. In 

 this country breeds were, comparatively recently, im- 

 ported from all parts of the world and in some cases very 

 many crosses of these imported breeds were used to es- 

 tablish a new breed. In other cases comparatively few 

 were used. These were developed under different condi- 

 tions of feed, care and environment, and in some cases 

 under conditions that were ideally adapted to the produc- 

 tion of new and distinct breeds. Thus there have been 

 brought forth in Great Britain and in the United States 

 a considerable number of breeds of swine which are sepa- 

 rate and distinct one from another and most of which are 

 very good. 



