328 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
No. 20, average net weight, 772 pounds. 
No. 30, average net weight, 506 pounds. 
No. 35, average net weight, 450 pounds. 
No. 346, average net weight, 402 pounds. 
These averages, I believe, have never been equaled. Perhaps 
to this excellent breed of hogs, more than to any other cause, may 
be attributed the good name of Cincinnati bacon in the English 
and other foreign markets, and which made that city for many 
years the greatest pork-packing city in the world, from which it 
has received the name of Porkopolis. 
A WELL ESTABLISHED BREED. 
The editor of the National Live Stock Journal, in speaking of 
the Poland-China hog, exhibited at the National Swine Exposi¬ 
tion, held at Chicago in 1871, says: “ To observe such striking 
uniformity of form and character, they are unquestionably a well 
established breed, if 500 to 1,000 specimens, drawn from many 
different parts of the country, and possessing well defined family 
characteristics, can be relied upon to settle such a question. It 
is a breed, too, formed in this country in response to a popular 
American demand for a hog differing essentially in every im¬ 
portant respect from any other in existence.” 
ITS PECULIARITIES AND WORTH. 
Mr Morris says: 
First. That it does not mange. I have never had one that 
had this ailment, and I consider this a value not to be over¬ 
looked by a farmer that knows the evils of mange. 
Second. That for early fattening qualities, yet continued growth, 
it has no equal. It will readily fat into “ clear pork” at nine to 
ten months old, weighing 325 pounds; or will continue growing 
until eighteen or twenty months old, and in a herd of a hundred 
head, when fattened, will weigh from 450 to 500 pounds. At full 
growth, their live weight is frequently 900 pounds, or “ big enough 
for any body.” 
Third. That it is the best clover and blue grass eater ever pro¬ 
duced, so far as I have known test experiments made. It will 
