Diseases of swine, with particluar reference to hog-cholera . 10. stock. A few years later a Mr. Wainman, of Carhead, Yorkshire,began improving on the Tuley stock, and developed a herd ofexceptional quality, from which he made importations over theentire world. Mr. Spencer, of St. Ives, later became a famousbreeder of the Large Yorkshire hog, and has done much to bringit up to its present standard. General Characteristics.—The Large Yorkshire is a very mas-sive animal, often scaling over 1000 pounds. Animals of this breedare white in color and rather coarse in general appearance. Thehead is of
Diseases of swine, with particluar reference to hog-cholera . 10. stock. A few years later a Mr. Wainman, of Carhead, Yorkshire,began improving on the Tuley stock, and developed a herd ofexceptional quality, from which he made importations over theentire world. Mr. Spencer, of St. Ives, later became a famousbreeder of the Large Yorkshire hog, and has done much to bringit up to its present standard. General Characteristics.—The Large Yorkshire is a very mas-sive animal, often scaling over 1000 pounds. Animals of this breedare white in color and rather coarse in general appearance. Thehead is of medium length, with a slight upward curve. The ears ofthe best animals are erect or point slightly forward. They incline 70 DISEASES OF SWINE to be heavy and droop quite pronouncedly. The back is narrow,with rather weak loins. The body is long, fairly deep, and of thedecided bacon character rather than the lard type, which meetssuch favor in the United States. Hams and shoulders are fairlywell rounded, but are not expected to be of the heavy type seen in. Fij:;. 34.—York of the Cedars. Weight, 200 poundsW. H. Fisher, Columbus, Ohio.) (Photo loaned by the lard breeds. The legs are rather long, large boned, and havewell-placed pasterns. The hair is inclined to be coarse, and should be pure white incolor. Dark spots in the skin are admissible, but are objected toby breeders. The white hair and unpigmented skin make thisbreed, as in the case of the Chester-White, susceptible to the actionof the sun, and in the Central Western States mange and scurfi-ness are common in these breeds. LARGE YORKSHIRE, OR LARGE WHITE 71 Large Yorkshires were introduced into the United Statesabout 1840, and in 1841 A. B. Allen, of Ohio, imported a pair fromEngland. From time to time, for over fifty years, the breed hasbeen imported in small numbers, but no great amount of interestwas developed in the animals. In 1893 Wilcox and Ligett, ofMinnesota, imported some modern specimens of the breed, and t
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