Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . GKUl P 1^(JLAND-CHIXA S\Vii\E. GROUP DLKOC-JEKSEY SWINE istics and color (pure white) of each being constant. Over one hundredyears ago the large breed were cultivated in England, and are representedas being of immense size, large-limbed and coarse-boned. Short Faced Lancashire.—This breed is remarkable for the shortnessof t
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . GKUl P 1^(JLAND-CHIXA S\Vii\E. GROUP DLKOC-JEKSEY SWINE istics and color (pure white) of each being constant. Over one hundredyears ago the large breed were cultivated in England, and are representedas being of immense size, large-limbed and coarse-boned. Short Faced Lancashire.—This breed is remarkable for the shortnessof the face from the eyes to the end of the snout; prick ears; smallbones ; a good coat of white hair; cubic in form, with broad back and BREEDS OF SWINE. 955 broad hams, well let down. The skin, as well as the hair, is white, al-though !iu occasional one may De found having a few dark-blae spots onthe skin, but never dark or black hairs. Lancashire Middle-Breed.—This breed is one which partakes of thequality of the small breed and the size of the large breed. Middle bredhogs are got by crossing large bred sows with small bred boars, but allattempts to attain the same results by reversing this operation, and puttinglarge bred boars to small bred sows have proved failures. The largest ofthe middl
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