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The Herefordshire breed is also a large useful breed, but without possessing any advantage 0Ver those that have been mentioned.

It is remarked by tbe author of the Survey of Middlesex, that the largest breed in the island is Supposcd to be kept about Rudgewick, on the borders of Sussex and Surrey. They feed to an extraordinary Size, and weigh, at two years old, nearly double or triple the usual weight of other s0rts of hogs of that age. As large breeds pay the farmer the best in many Cases, Such a breed deserves to be attended to,

Among the smaller breeds of these animals there is much variety.

The Chinese breed is distinguished by the neck being thick; the body very close, compact, and well formed; tbe legs very Short, and the Size Small; the flesh delicate; the colour various, as white, brown, and tawny. This breed 13 particularly disposed to fatten in an expeditious Manner, and has, in consequenCce, Spread over a great part of the kingdom. It 1s most a lapted for being used as pork, but 18 much too small for being cured as bacon,

Another breed of the small kind of hogs 15 met with in many districts;:t is of a white colour, thick, compact, and well made in the body; sbort in the leg; the head and neck well formed, and the ears Slouching a little downwards. It is well disposed to fatten, and perfectly hardy.

The Swing-tailed breed is an usefal Sort af the Smaller kind of hogs, being hardy in its nature, and of considerable weight in proportion t0.11s SIZE

Some farmers prefer mixed breeds, as being more benefi- cia] than either the large or small perfect breeds, Where this is the case, the Berkshire, with a cross of the Chinese, has been found a very profitable. Sort, as being capable of feeding to a considerable weight with a moderate proportion of food.

In order to have hogs of the most perfect kinds, the Same attention Should be paid im the breeding of them as in other 50rts Of animals, by Selecting the most perfect and best- formed males and females ot the Several breeds, and care- fully raising the stock from them. Those intended to be kept as S0WS and boars Should be constantly well ſed from the first, 38,-wWhere they are pinched tor tood, they are never 50 üine ot healthy afterwards.

The breeds of bogs, like those of other animals, Should be provided according to the nature of the keep. Where it is abundant, ort cultivated Solely for the purpose of be raising of pigs, the large breeds will mostly be faund the most advantageous, as the difference in the proportions be

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