Animal products; . 419,203 Lard cwts. 540,244 1,634,769 Tork ,, 266,663 590,356 ,£9,881,874 Besides probably some prepared pig-skins not enumerated. The enormous increase in the consumption of foreign baconand hams is worth special notice. The imports have been asfollows :— Eacon and Hams. Pork, cwt. cwt. 1840 6,l8l 29,532 I850 352,46l 211,254 1S60 326,106 173,325 1870 567,164 257,014 1875 2,638,875 266,663 The varieties of the pig are very numerous, and are increaseddaily, arising from crossing of breeds, food, climate, care, & animal is so extensively diffused over the globe, or increase
Animal products; . 419,203 Lard cwts. 540,244 1,634,769 Tork ,, 266,663 590,356 ,£9,881,874 Besides probably some prepared pig-skins not enumerated. The enormous increase in the consumption of foreign baconand hams is worth special notice. The imports have been asfollows :— Eacon and Hams. Pork, cwt. cwt. 1840 6,l8l 29,532 I850 352,46l 211,254 1S60 326,106 173,325 1870 567,164 257,014 1875 2,638,875 266,663 The varieties of the pig are very numerous, and are increaseddaily, arising from crossing of breeds, food, climate, care, & animal is so extensively diffused over the globe, or increases sorapidly. Marshal Vauban calculated that the produce of a singlesow in ten years, assuming six pigs at a litter, and excluding themales, would increase to 6,434,130 pigs, or as many as any of the 350 VARIETIES 0E SWINE. chief European States could support. If this calculation werecarried on to the twelfth generation, we should find they wouldpeople all Europe, and by the sixteenth cover the entire THE OLD ENGLISH BREED OF HOG. The Berkshire has long been regarded as one of the superiorbreeds of England, combining size with a sufficient aptitude to ^r>**r3gs^
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