. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. CHAPTER XXXVI. Pigs, Goats, and Poultkv. ' Origin of the Pig—White Breeds—Berkshires—Essex—Other English Breeds—Poland-Chinas '^ —Management of Pigs—Goats—Poultry. -r^ ,^-uOST writers agree that the '>-,!^ differeut varieties of do- mesticated swine in this and other countries have been derived from the y "" ,^ , order Pac/ii/derma(a, genus Sus, the common wild swine of the ancient forests. Ages ago, these animals roamed at large in Britain, where they formed common, and
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. CHAPTER XXXVI. Pigs, Goats, and Poultkv. ' Origin of the Pig—White Breeds—Berkshires—Essex—Other English Breeds—Poland-Chinas '^ —Management of Pigs—Goats—Poultry. -r^ ,^-uOST writers agree that the '>-,!^ differeut varieties of do- mesticated swine in this and other countries have been derived from the y "" ,^ , order Pac/ii/derma(a, genus Sus, the common wild swine of the ancient forests. Ages ago, these animals roamed at large in Britain, where they formed common, and often dangerous, objects of the chase for the nobles of the land. Reminiscences of the wild boar still remain in the names of places in some parts of the country, as, for instance, in the moorlands of Staffordshire, " Boar's Grove" and " Wild-boar- clough" are to this day the names of farms or localities in which, so far even as present aspect goes, it is very probable the wild boar was com- mon in the olden times. The wild boar, it is true, long ago became extinct in these islands, except in a few remote localities, yet to this day he is hunted in the forests and mountains of France and Germany, while in various other countries of Europe and Asia he is not at all un- common. In these olden times a large portion of England was covered with forests, in which the oak was, it is said, more general than any other kind of tree, and acorns formed, in the autumn and early winter, a sumptuous feast, on which the wild boar fattened; the beech-tree flotu- ished, too, in those ancient forests on the lime- stone, as the oak did on the clays, and beech- masts served the boar for food; grasses and the roots of plants he fed on in other parts of the year. His keen scent told him where the latter were, and his long and powerful snout soon brought them up to light. The snout of the domestic pig, though still powerful for mischief, is much less vigorous than t
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