. Burpee's farm annual : garden, farm, and flower seeds, blooded stock. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. 42 PRICES OF YOKKSHIRE PIGS. Pair, not akin, 8 to lo weeks old ;^ Single Pig, " " Pair, 3 to 4 months old to $ Single Pig, 3 to 4 months eld Boars, fit for service to Sows, in pig to extra fine Boars to Essex Pigs. The Essex is one of our oldest breeds, and is valuable for improving the common stock. They are hardy, healthy and free breeders. In color they ar
. Burpee's farm annual : garden, farm, and flower seeds, blooded stock. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. 42 PRICES OF YOKKSHIRE PIGS. Pair, not akin, 8 to lo weeks old ;^ Single Pig, " " Pair, 3 to 4 months old to $ Single Pig, 3 to 4 months eld Boars, fit for service to Sows, in pig to extra fine Boars to Essex Pigs. The Essex is one of our oldest breeds, and is valuable for improving the common stock. They are hardy, healthy and free breeders. In color they are always a ricli jet black ; they arc classed with the small breeds, of medium size, sometimes attaining a weight of 400 to 500 pounds. They are a neat, fine hog, with very little offal, and are highly esteemed for marketing young. Their hams and pork are of choice quality and dress white. When fat the carcass is com- posed largely of lard, which is perfectly white and BERKSHIRE BOAR, OTHELLo's SAMBO. I Berkshire Hogs. We have a stock of remarkably short-snouted pigs, with unusual breadth between the eyes. The illustration given above was accuratel)' drawn from life, of our fine young Berkshire Boar ' Othello's Sambo,' when only seven months old. This boar won the first prize for best Berkshire Boar under one year old—this, too, when he was less than seven months old. He is a worthy descendant of the grand imported Othello, so celebrated as the sire of the entire Sambo and Sallie families. Our limited space does not allow us to enumerate the many choice ani- mals from which we breed and ship to our customers, pigs which unite fine type of form and rare excellence with choicest and most fashionable pedigrees. All of the pigs we ship are descendants from or immediately out of the finest imported sires and dams to be had in England, from such talented breeders as Sir Russell Swanwiclc, Hebcr Humphrey, Her Majesty, the Queen of England, B. St. John Ackers, Esq., and Capta
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