678 Report on Butter, Cheese, Provisions, &,-c., at Kilburn. 
are not the best Judges of the sorts of pigs which pay best every- 
where. All I want to suggest is that there is no reason why 
the farmer should not make more money by rearing the pig in 
which fat and lean are more blended in the proportions which 
realize the highest price. 
I have bred pigs of pure white breeds and of pure black 
breeds ; I have crossed these breeds ; I have crossed them with 
common pigs : I have done all this in order to arrive at a know- 
ledge of the most profitable pig ; but have found that our way 
of marketing is so rough and unsatisfactory, that the buyer, 
who acted for the bacon-curer, got all the advantage. I am 
fully aware that the buyer does not give so high a price for a pig 
which is all belly, like that which is met with in some parts of 
the West of Ireland, as for a well-shaped pig ; but if I were 
to breed the very style of pigs suggested by Messrs. Thompson 
and Klein wort, I should not get as much for them in any fair or 
market with which I am acquainted as for the pure Yorkshire 
or pure Berkshire which I breed now. 
If the bacon-curers desire to encourage a pig of any set of 
points, they must begin by giving an increase of price to the 
farmer. 
A criticism on the quality of the hams and bacon will 
not be expected in this Report ; and the award-list will show 
that in American and foreign hams and bacon there was no 
competition. 
Preserved Meats. 
There were ten classes of preserved meats ; in eight of which 
there was no competition. 
In the first of these classes (Class 339, Preserved Beef), the 
prize of lOZ. was awarded to Messrs. Low, Hackdale, and Co., of 
4, Billiter Street, London. The St. Louis Beef Curing Company, 
of St. Louis, Missouri, United States, had also an entry. The 
Judges have made no Report, but I can say that they were 
rather disappointed with both specimens, and they were greatly 
disappointed with the entire section. 
In the sections intended for Preserved Mutton and Preserved 
Pork, I was surprised that there was no entry, notwithstanding 
that a prize of lOZ. was offered for each. In the classes of Pre- 
served Poultry and Preserved Game, the want of competition was 
said to be owing to the smallness of the prize of 51. : but this 
will not explain the total absence of competition in the four 
classes of American or European Fresh Meat, in each of which 
a prize of 25/. was offered. 
