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Too frequently it is this excellent quality of the breed that induces growers 

 to choose them in preference to others on the supposition that during the busy 

 summer season, when the work of cultivating and harvesting the crops is 

 crowding all hands on the farm, they will take care of themselves and grow 

 just as good as ever. 



Criticisms of the Tamworth. Several characteristics of the 

 Tamworth have caused unfavorable comment in America. The 

 long head, narrow back, short ribs, and long legs are not looked 

 upon with favor by American breeders. They will not accept the 

 Tamworth, regarding it as an unprofitable feeder and an undesir- 

 able type. However, if one will select the more approved type, 

 with good depth of body, long smooth sides, and superior quality, 

 such as has been produced to a fair degree in recent years, this criti- 

 cism will not hold good. There has been a tendency to be unfair 

 in criticism of the Tamworth, which the author feels, convinced 

 is based on old rather than on new standards. It is the heavy- 

 headed, long-legged, rough sort that has caused this criticism. If 

 buyers will be discriminating they will have no difficulty to-day in 

 securing a class of Tamworths that in good hands should do well. 

 The present-day bacon demand justifies the use of the breed. 



The distribution of the Tamworth is very limited. The breed 

 is kept in a small way in England, and the same applies to Canada 

 ■and the United States. Specimens are not shown in great num- 

 bers at the important stock shows of England or in this country. 

 The principal herds in America are found in Ontario, Canada, 

 and in the United States, more especially in Kentucky, Iowa, 

 IlHnois, Kansas, Texas, Wisconsin, and Ohio. 



Organizations to promote Tamworths exist in England in the 

 authority of the National Pig Breeders' Association of Great 

 Britain and, in America, in the American Tamworth Swine 

 Record Association, the latter being organized in Michigan in 

 1897. The American association up to 19 19 has published four 

 small herd records. The Dominion Swine. Breeders' Association 

 of Canada also registers this breed under government supervision. 



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