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 . 944 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. ? ^^^^:» 1 |L 1 ^flBCSI 1 ^B^ -: 1 ^F^I^^V^ 1 Hoj 1 1 1 ? »i ^i^^a^l 1 1 *% 1. ? ^^1 1 1 s. , H ^^^^BOX^^ 1 fejj k fl| Tf ?c f f ^^^ 1 ^-HH ta M 1. IS cj CHAPTER OF SWINE. SIRES OF IMPKUVKI) UKKLDf. II. CHINESE SWINE. III. NEAPOiaXAN SVVINE IV. THE HOG OF INDI
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 . 944 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. ? ^^^^:» 1 |L 1 ^flBCSI 1 ^B^ -: 1 ^F^I^^V^ 1 Hoj 1 1 1 ? »i ^i^^a^l 1 1 *% 1. ? ^^1 1 1 s. , H ^^^^BOX^^ 1 fejj k fl| Tf ?c f f ^^^ 1 ^-HH ta M 1. IS cj CHAPTER OF SWINE. SIRES OF IMPKUVKI) UKKLDf. II. CHINESE SWINE. III. NEAPOiaXAN SVVINE IV. THE HOG OF INDIA. V. ENGLISH BREEDS—THE BERKSHIRE. VI THE ESSEX. VII. THE BLACK DORSET. VIII. THE SUFFOLK. IX THE YORKSHIRE. X. LANCASHIRE BREEDS. X r. AMERICAN BREEDS. XII THE CHESTER WHITE. XIII. THE POLAND-CHIN.\. XIV. THE CHESHIRES. XV. JERSEY RED SWINE. XVI. DUROC SWINE.——XVII. THIN RIND, OR HAMPSHIRE HOG. XVIII. SUMMARY OF BREEDS. I. Sires of Improved Breeds. The swine used iu the iini)roveineiit of the breeds (tf Enghmd and theUnited States, are: First, the China hog; second, the Neapolitan hog,and third, the hog of India. The first has given remarkable aptitude infattening, while the second and third have imparted style, beauty of formand excellence of flesh. II. Chinese Swine. The first iiiii)rovement in modern swine is undoubtedly due to import?,tions of lious from China. They are remarkable for prepotency of blood,
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