. The successful stockman and manual of husbandry . Livestock; Veterinary medicine. SWINB. 399 ^SSex. Coburti on swine has the following to say regarding this breed: "The Essex breed of swine is comparatively unknown among the farmers of the Mississippi Valley, and we have no knowledge of their being raised in any considerable numbers for pork. Still in some local- ities, they are bred in a limited way (more, perhaps in Kentucky, than elsewhere) and we have never encountered a person who has once tried them, who did not place a high estimate on their value as a small breed, and especially
. The successful stockman and manual of husbandry . Livestock; Veterinary medicine. SWINB. 399 ^SSex. Coburti on swine has the following to say regarding this breed: "The Essex breed of swine is comparatively unknown among the farmers of the Mississippi Valley, and we have no knowledge of their being raised in any considerable numbers for pork. Still in some local- ities, they are bred in a limited way (more, perhaps in Kentucky, than elsewhere) and we have never encountered a person who has once tried them, who did not place a high estimate on their value as a small breed, and especially on the boars to use for crossing on sows of larger breeds. They seem to be essentially the same as SufEolks, except in their black color, and less liability to skin diseases, which would in a. PRIZE ESSEX BOAR. majority of cases make them the favorites over their white com- petitors. We think that there is small probability of the Essex swine, as now bred, ever becoming the prevailing breed, from the fact that they are a smaller class of hogs than most farmers care to raise, or packers to buy and handle, and we deem it improbable that the next fifty or hun- dred 5'ears will witness the raising of smaller swine, generally, than the Berkshires, and it is more than likely that in the future, the happy medium will be an animal in size between the best modelled small- boned Berkshire and the coarser Poland-Chinas of the present time.''. 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 Gardenier, Andrew A. Springfield, Mass. : King-Richardson Co.
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