Swine husbandry in Canada . cated by the fact that in 1013 there were recorded by the Dominion SwineRreeders Association pedigrees of 4,414 Yorkshires, Berkshires, 706 Tamworths, Chester Whites. 477 Poland-Chinas, 731 Duroc-Jerseys, and 189 of the Dominion Swine Breeders Associate in are charged for registrationof pedigrees, including certificate, SO cents each; non-members, $1; transfers. 25cents each. The cost of membership in the Dominiol Swine Breeders Association is$2 per annum. Application forms, giving rules of entry, may be procured from theAccountant. Nat
Swine husbandry in Canada . cated by the fact that in 1013 there were recorded by the Dominion SwineRreeders Association pedigrees of 4,414 Yorkshires, Berkshires, 706 Tamworths, Chester Whites. 477 Poland-Chinas, 731 Duroc-Jerseys, and 189 of the Dominion Swine Breeders Associate in are charged for registrationof pedigrees, including certificate, SO cents each; non-members, $1; transfers. 25cents each. The cost of membership in the Dominiol Swine Breeders Association is$2 per annum. Application forms, giving rules of entry, may be procured from theAccountant. National Live Stock Records, Ottawa. THE YORKSHIRE. The Yorkshire hog of to-day is claimed by historians of the breed to havedescended almost directly from the old English hog common in the northern countiesof England as far back as the beginning of the eighteenth century. This hog waslong in head and body and stood high off the ground. lie was narrow in body, coarsein bone, had very large ears, and took a long time to Fig. 9.—Yorkshire boar. Little was done to improve the breed until about L760, when Robert Bakewell, thefamous stock improver of that time, is said to have applied the principles by which theEnglish Leicester sheep was evolved from the old type. This was to perpetuate onlythe smaller, finer and more compact animals, which he found had a greater aptitude tofatten than the more rangy and coarser types. Some authorities claim also that theYorkshire wa^ much helped by the introduction of crosses of the White Leicester, abreed of swine of a finer and thicker type than the Yorkshire was at that time. 10 17 There appears to be comparatively little knowledge of the improvers of the breedduring the early part of the nineteenth century, but it is probable that many farmershad a hand in the work. The Yorkshire man, as is well known, is a lover of good stock,and it is not surprising to find that the swine kept in the county of York were equal!if not superior, to thos
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