SWINE 
History, Dreeds and Characteristics. 
CHAPTER I. 
mSTOBY AND BREEDS. 
OWN OF THE nos. TEETH OF TOE HOG. IMPORTANCE OF SWINE TO MAN. 
I. IMPROVED BREEDS OF SWINE— ENGLISH BREEDS— II. THE BEKKSUIRK& 
ESTABLISHING THE IMPROVED BERKSHIRE. STANDARD CHARACTERS. 
TICS OF BERKSUIRES. III. NEAPOLITAN HOGS. IV. ESSEX BREED. V. 
YORKSHIRE HOG. VI. 8UFFOLKS. — VII. LANCASHIRE HOGS. — VIII. LANCASHIRE; 
middle-breed, rx. large Lancashire. — American breeds. x. Poland 
CHINA. XI. CHESTER WHITES. — XII. JERSEY REDS. — CHE3HIRES. — XIII. CHARAC- 
TERISTICS. RECAPITULATION OF BREEDS. 
Origin of the Hog. 
The great antiquity of the hog, sus scrofa of Linneeus, is fixed from 
the fact that remains of several fossil species have oeen found in the 
tertiary and diluvial deposits of Europe, and allied species in India. The 
wild hogs, from which the domestic breeds have taken their rise, are 
native of Europe, Asia and Africa, and are found wherever the climate 
is mild enough to afford sustenance in Winter, and in a domestic state 
wherever civilization has been extended. The fact of the origin of the 
domestic hog is well established from the fact that it will interbreed and 
continue entirely fertile, the succeeding fertility of the offspring, to the 
remotest generations, proving the homogeneity of the species. ° 
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