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line of the back. The shoulders are wide and well covered, 
sloping back into the carcass. The ribs are full, and the loins 
wide ; the tail set on high. The hams are deep and square, 
meat down to the hocks, bone fine, and oflFal light. They are 
remarkably heavy according to size, and very complete for their 
ige ; the coat varies as to length and character, from the thick 
short staple to the long curly sort which is not so closely set." 
Imposing specimens of early maturity and fatness are exhibited 
inder six months old. 
The Middle-breed Whites, not yet established into a fixed ^^iddle-b^■eod 
vpe between the large and small breeds, are being extensively '^^'^^^ 
idopted as specially valuable for all the purposes of profitable 
arm-stock, combining early maturity,- hardiness of constitution, 
irolific breeding and good nursing, aptitude to feed, size 
md weight, and excellent quality of flesh, with fat and lean well 
ntermixed for both young pork and matured bacon. They are 
nore nearly allied to the small than to the large-breed pigs in the 
hape of the head, though the nose is not so upturned ; the ears 
.re larger, and the cheeks are not so full. They are very long 
nd level, with great depth of carcass ; their legs are of moderate 
ength, and the bone is moderately fine. They have generally 
covering of soft and thinly set hair. 
The Earl of EUesmere, Mr. Peter Eden, Messrs. Duckering, 
nd Messrs. J. and F. Howard, of Bedford, are among the most 
minent breeders and exhibitors at the present time. 
HOESES. 
Witnessing the magnificent classes of hunters, hackneys, and Horse- 
arness-horses, thoroughbred sires, brood mares, cobs, and ponies, 
t the Shows of the Royal Agricultural Society, of the York- 
hire and Lincolnshire Agricultural Societies, and of the Bath 
nd West of England Society, visitors might naturally suppose 
lat the breeding of such horses forms one of the most prevalent, 
opular, and profitable features in English farming. And it is 
rue that tenant-farmers as well as gentlemen and squires breed 
considerable proportion of the hunting, nag, and army horses 
nd trotters of the kingdom ; and that while limited to no par- 
cular localities, provided there be a suitable country of mixed 
rable and pasture, this branch of the farmer's business is of 
pecial importance in certain counties, — as in Yorkshire (cele- 
rated for its Cleveland bays), in Lincolnshire, in Norfolk and 
ufTolk, in the midland counties, and in many other parts of 
ngland, where almost every farmer of medium-sized or large 
cupation keeps at least one brood mare, sometimes several, 
id hunts with the packs of hounds in his neighbourhood. 
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