IS- 



SWINE 



Franklin County. They are generally supposed to be nearly identi- 

 cal with the Siamese, but may be akin to the Swingtailed breed 

 of the early Enghsh writers." According to H. F. Work of 

 Indiana, Henry James, a Boone County (Kentucky) farmer, in a 

 visit to some of the Eastern states in the early thirties, saw some 

 belted hogs. These he described to Major Joel Garnett, who in- 

 vestigated and later purchased from people in Atlantic seaboard 

 states 14 or 15 of these pigs, which were delivered to his agent 



Fig. 350. Colonel Lakeside 21865, winner of the Hampshire Advocate trophy as 



the best boar under one year old at the Illinois State Fair in 1914. A successful 



sire owned by C. L. Moore & Sons, Tremont, IlHnois. From photograph, by 



courtesy of the owners 



in Philadelphia and later driven on foot or hauled in wagons to 

 Pittsburgh, from which point they were taken by boat to Kentucky, 

 reaching there in 1835. Shepard, in his writings,^ refers to the 

 Norfolk Thin Rind — first imported from England in 1830 by 

 Henry Degroot of New York — as similar to the Thin Rind, 

 although his references to color do not specify a belted pig. How- 

 ever, the author has in his possession ^ a wood engraving of special 



1 S. M. Shepard, The Hog in America. Indianapolis, 1886. 

 ^ Received through the courtesy of the Breeders^ Gazette. 



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