. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. LARGE YORKSHIRE OR LARGE WHITE 537 of bone compared with the others. This cross was improved by breeding the 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 con- siderable extent by factory hands and laborers. In 1851 Joseph Tuley, a weaver of Keighley, exhibited a pig at the Royal Agri- cultural Show at Windsor that attracted great attention, and. Fig. 246. Holywe
. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. LARGE YORKSHIRE OR LARGE WHITE 537 of bone compared with the others. This cross was improved by breeding the 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 con- siderable extent by factory hands and laborers. In 1851 Joseph Tuley, a weaver of Keighley, exhibited a pig at the Royal Agri- cultural Show at Windsor that attracted great attention, and. Fig. 246. Holywell Royalty IT, a fine example of a I^arge Yorkshire bcc:r. Bred and owned by Sanders Spencer, Holywell Manor, bt. Ives, Eng- land. Photograph from Mr. Spencer later his strain of Large Yorkshires was very popular, and his pigs sold at high prices. At this time the pig breeders of York- shire and Cumberland kept pedigrees of their pigs, which they printed and made much of. The agricultural societies of the region offered prizes to promote the breed, and there was keen competition in the show 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 £(i to £11 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, £\; second prize, £'^ ; third prize, £â 2, ; fourth prize, ^ 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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