. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. g stock of Prance and Gcrmanv ismuch inferior to our own or the English breeds,the common stock being long-legged, gaunt,coarse, and uncouth, resembling the wild boarin form, but lacking the flavor and quality ofthe latter. Improved varieties, however, arefound in both countries. England ranks first in the improvement ofswine. Our best breeds have come from England, or have been built up from the oldEnglish stock. Foreign and native breedsentered into the formation of noted Englishbreeds of hogs, but the improvement has beenef
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. g stock of Prance and Gcrmanv ismuch inferior to our own or the English breeds,the common stock being long-legged, gaunt,coarse, and uncouth, resembling the wild boarin form, but lacking the flavor and quality ofthe latter. Improved varieties, however, arefound in both countries. England ranks first in the improvement ofswine. Our best breeds have come from England, or have been built up from the oldEnglish stock. Foreign and native breedsentered into the formation of noted Englishbreeds of hogs, but the improvement has beeneffected there by careful, painstaking present English breeds the Yorkshire, largeand small, has many admirers and is gain-ing constantly in favor. The large breed wasimproved by an introduction of blood of thewhite Leicester, an old slab-sided but largenative hog; and further improved by theintroduction of blood of the improved whitehogs at Castle Howard. The improvedEssex is at present a popular breed both inEngland and America. It is the product of a. cross between the old Essex and the Xeajioli-tan, which was commenced by Lord Westernin 1839. III. The Pig in Americ.\ It naturally follows, since the hog is not anative of this continent, that the ancestors ofour many families and breeds must have beenimported. They found here a land of corn andclover, two foods which the hog likes and whichwhen fed to him produce quick and iirotitablereturns. The first pigs that influenced the earlierinferior stock in way of improvement were apair .sent by the Duke of Bedford to GeneralWashington. This pair was never delivered,however, but kept by the English farmer whobrought them over, who leased a farm and be-gan the breeding of these choice animals. De-scendants of this pair were used largely in the 204 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS improvement of the common stock, and wereknown as the Woburn or Bedford breed,a splendid one at the time but since absorbedin other breeds. The Berkshire enj
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