. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. THE LARGE YORKSHIRE 783 I largest and best young sows to Small Yorkshire boars of great fattening capacity. The improvement thus effected mainly took place sixty or so years ago about the cities of Leeds, Keighley, and Skipton in the county of York, and to a considerable extent by factory hands and laborers. In 1851 Joseph Tuley, a weaver of Keighley, exhibited a pig at the Royal. Agricultural Show at Windsor that attracted great attention, and later his strain of Large Yorkshires was very popular, and his pigs sold at high. Fig. 359. Holywell Roy
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. THE LARGE YORKSHIRE 783 I largest and best young sows to Small Yorkshire boars of great fattening capacity. The improvement thus effected mainly took place sixty or so years ago about the cities of Leeds, Keighley, and Skipton in the county of York, and to a considerable extent by factory hands and laborers. In 1851 Joseph Tuley, a weaver of Keighley, exhibited a pig at the Royal. Agricultural Show at Windsor that attracted great attention, and later his strain of Large Yorkshires was very popular, and his pigs sold at high. Fig. 359. Holywell Royalty II, a fine example of a Large Yorkshire boar. Bred and owned by Sanders Spencer, St. Ives, England. From photograph, by courtesy of Mr. Spencer prices. At this time the pig breeders of Yorkshire and Cumber- land kept pedigrees of their pigs, which they printed. The agri- cultural societies of the region offered prizes to promote the breed, and there was keen competition in the shov/ ring. The various towns had agricultural societies and shows. Regarding these Sidney wrote as follows : At these shows there is often a row of twenty or thirty fat pigs, worth from /6 to ^i 2 each, all as white as soap and water can make them, stretched on beds of clean straw, with wrappers of some kind to protect them from the sun or rain, contending for the first prize, ^4; second prize, ^3 ; third prize, £1; fourth prize, £1. Digitized by Microsoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939. Boston, New York, Ginn
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