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the back arched ; the rump hanging down ( avalee ) ; the legs 
thin ; the skin hard and covered with coarse bristles. 
The Norman race is better made. Its body is long, and its 
back horizontal. It has been brought to great perfection in the 
valley of Ange. 
The Craonaise race (Fig. 41) is remarkable for the fineness of 
its bones, of its skin, and of its bristles. Its pork is excellent, and 
so are its hams. 
The Lorraine race furnishes pork and bacon of excellent quality. 
All these races are white, and are gentle in their habits. To 
another group belong races which are piebald with white and 
black, and have semi-pendant ears. Such, for instance, are the 
Perigordine race (Fig. 42), of which the best specimens are 
sold at the fairs of Saint Yriex and Saint Leonard ; also the 
Bressane race (Fig. 43), of which the meat is rather coarse and 
stringy. 
Among the foreign breeds, we will confine ourselves to mention- 
ing the Middlesex, the Windsor, and the new Leicester breeds, 
remarkable for the symmetry of their shape, and their fine and 
rosy skin ; these in ten or twelve months become so excessively 
stout that the neck, the face, and the eyes almost disappear in the 
fat. Their flesh is fine and melting, but the animal is of a deli- 
cate constitution. 
The Berkshire breed (Fig. 44), hardy, rapid of growth, the most 
lucrative of all when it is well fed, furnishes excellent pork and 
a much firmer bacon than that which is given by the English 
white-skinned races. 
As examples of mixed races, that is to say crosses made between 
French and foreign breeds, we will confine ourselves to mentioning 
the New- Leicester Craonaise. 
The fecundity of Pigs is remarkable. Two litters a year can be 
obtained from a Sow, and each litter may consist of from twelve to 
fifteen. Agricultural reports tell us that one single Leicestershire 
Sow had three hundred and fifty-five young ones, in twenty litters. 
Y auban, when occupied with the question of provisioning towns, 
recommended the rearing of these animals : he calculated that in 
ten generations one single Sow could supply 6,434,838 Pigs. 
When a Sow has had a litter of Pigs, the little ones should be 
placed within reach of her teats, the most vigorous of the young 
