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invention of Yorkshire pig breeders, and perhaps the most useful and 
popular of the white breeds, as it unites, in a striking degree, the good 
qualities of the large and small. It has been produced by a cross of the 
large and the small York and Cumberland, which is larger ttf^n the small 
York. Like the large whites, they often have a few pale blue spots on 
the skin, the hair on these spots being white. All white breeds have these 
spots more or less, and they often increase in number as the animal grows 
older. 
It was not until 1851 that the merits of this breed were fully recog- 
nized, when at a meeting of the Keighley Agricultural Society, the judges 
having called the attention of the stewards to the fact that several supe- 
rior sows, which were evidently closely allied to the small breed, had 
been exhibited in the large breed class, the aspiring intruders were, by 
official authority, withdrawn. 
The middle Yorkshire breed are about the same size as the Berkshire 
breed, but have smaller heads, and are much lighter in the bone. They 
are better feeders than the small whites, but not so good as the large 
whites ; in fact, they occupy a position in every respect between these 
two breeds. 
The Cumberland, a middle breed Yorkshire, ave not distributed 
throughout tho West, but when thoroughbred specimens have been 
introduced they are held in great esteem, as well for an animal for 
exhibition purposes as for family use. They are especial favorites with 
packers who buy their stock on foot for the reason that they yield larger 
proportionate net weights than any other hogs which grow large enough 
for their use. They are small in bone but large in flesh, of the very best 
quality-, evenly and proportionately distributed over the whole frame. 
VI. The Suffolks. 
The Suffolks owe nearly all their good qualities probably to the infu- 
sion of Yorkshire blood. 
Mr. Sidney says that Yorkshire stands in the first rank as a pig feeding 
county, possessing the largest white breeds in England, as well as excel • 
lent medium and small breeds, all white, the latter of which, transplanted 
into the south has figured and won prizes under the name of diver? 
noblemen and gentlemen, and under tho name of more than ono county. 
The Yorkshires are closely allied to the Cumberland breeds, and have been 
bo much intermixed, that, with the exception of the very largest breeds 
it is difficult to determine precisely where the Cumberland begins and tho 
Yorkshire ends. The Manchester boar, the improved Suffolk, the im- 
proved Middlesex, tho Calcshiil and the Prince Alberts or Windsors wart. 
