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The legs should be of medium length with good bone. The 

 tendency is towards an undesirably long leg, whereas its length 

 at maturity should not exceed the depth of body. It is also 

 important that the legs come down straight and be free of kneeing 

 or hocking-in. 



The color of the hair should be white on every part of the 

 body. Bluish or blackish spots occur occasionally on the skin 

 under this white hair, and, while objected to by fanciers, do not 

 affect purity of breeding, neither do they disqualify registration. 

 The skin should be pink and healthy. White pigs in America, 

 especially in the sunny West and South, tend to scurfiness of skin 

 and sun scald, which causes them to be more or less unpopular. 



The type of the Large Yorkshire pig fashionable in the show 

 yard, says Sanders Spencer,^ varies. 



The chief points to be caught are length and depth of body, thickness of 

 flank, length of hind quarters and squareness of hams, lightness of fore quarters, 

 the head being generally of fair length, lightness in the jowl, and width between 

 the eyes. The bone and skin should be firm and the hair straight and silky. 



Although there have been the usual variations in the type and form of the 

 Large White pig of the day, the general character of the pig of the breed 

 which was most in demand by practical men is still preferred by the bacon- 

 curer and the purveyor of pork. Among the changes noticed during the last 

 thirty years was the reversion for a brief period to the thick, compact type, 

 after some dissatisfaction had been created by the cultivation of length of head 

 and leg and strength of bone. A number of Large Yorkshires of this latter 

 type were exported to the United States some twenty-five years ago, with 

 results most unfortunate to the breed. 



The size of the Large Yorkshire places this breed in the first 

 rank. Long writes of a Wainman sow that weighed 1203 pounds. 

 In 1 90 1 several sows of the breed were exhibited at the Inter- 

 national Live-Stock Exposition which weighed over 1000 pounds 

 each. Mr. Spencer, in reply to a letter from Professor Long, says : 



The Large Whites reach, in the heaviest animals, 12 stone (168 pounds) at 

 six months old; at nine months, 20 stone to 25 stone (280-350 pounds); at 

 twelve months, 30 stone (420 pounds) ; and at eighteen months, 45 stone (630 

 pounds). . . Sampson VI, a boar bred and exhibited by myself, and winner at 

 the Royal two years in succession, weighed, alive, gf hundredweight (1092 

 pounds) at twenty-three months, and was light in bone and carried but little offal. 



1 Country Geiiihniaii-, November 23, 191 2. 

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