American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . CHESTER WHITES, BKED BY BENSON, MAULE & CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA. They are gentle, quiet, easily kept, and may be fattened for the market at almost any Description.—This breed may be described as follows: A short head; broad betweenthe eyes; slightly dished face; medium sized ears projecting forward and dropping at thetips; body long and particularly deep; back broad and straight; hair heavy, generally wavy,and snow white; skin soft, white, and thin. The Chester Whites are a prolif
American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . CHESTER WHITES, BKED BY BENSON, MAULE & CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA. They are gentle, quiet, easily kept, and may be fattened for the market at almost any Description.—This breed may be described as follows: A short head; broad betweenthe eyes; slightly dished face; medium sized ears projecting forward and dropping at thetips; body long and particularly deep; back broad and straight; hair heavy, generally wavy,and snow white; skin soft, white, and thin. The Chester Whites are a prolific breed, and make excellent mothers. In breeding, it isalways best to permit the animals to attain a good size, in order to keep up the large size andprevent the prominent characteristics of the breed from deteriorating. These hogs alwaysgive good results when either kept pure or crossed on other 1 o^ 7;? ! ill i|L ^ H iiiiii! I n SWINE. 1207 POLAND CHINAS. THE Poland China breed seems to divide the honors with the Berksliires at all the fairsin the great corn-growing States; it being in many cases the most numerously repre-sented of all the breeds. There has been much controversy concerning the origin ofthis breed of swine, which is variously known as the Poland China, Magie, Warren County,Butler County, and by some the Miami County breed. In discussing this point, a higliAmerican authority says: It unquestionably originated in the Miami Valley of Southern Ohio, and was the resultof crossing several distinct breeds, and of long-continued selection with a view to producinggreat fattening qualities and early maturity, as well as great size; and while there is still aconsiderable lack of uniformity, it has clearly become an established breed. The color isblack, with irregular white spots, the black largely predominating; and some of them withwhite markings, almost identical wi
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