American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . New Jersey, until they had new-acquiredqualities as distinct as those of the Essex, Suffolk, or any other well-known breed withmarked and fixed traits. The prepotency of the full-blood Jersey Red was such as to appearand generally prevail over the peculiarities of other breeds with which it is crossed, a factwhich seems to support the belief that the Jersey Red of to-day is a lineal descendant of thefamous old Red Berkshire, which all breeders will imderstand is very different f
American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . New Jersey, until they had new-acquiredqualities as distinct as those of the Essex, Suffolk, or any other well-known breed withmarked and fixed traits. The prepotency of the full-blood Jersey Red was such as to appearand generally prevail over the peculiarities of other breeds with which it is crossed, a factwhich seems to support the belief that the Jersey Red of to-day is a lineal descendant of thefamous old Red Berkshire, which all breeders will imderstand is very different from the trim,black, restless Berkshire of the present day. It is a fact that manj farmers of New Jersey, after trying other well-known breeds, havereturned to the Jersey Reds as the best and safest for the pork raiser. The characteristics ofthe breed are, as described by the oldest and largest breeders, a good coat of fine red hair,occasionally interspersed with a fleck of black; broad faces; thin, pendant, or wilted ears;good shoulders; large developed hams; broad, straight backs, and excellent middle pieces,. SAVINE. 12ia the whole supported by fine symmetrical legs, with which they rise and travel with apparentease, even when well fattened, and very seldom showing lameness, which has proven a seriousobjection to many other breeds. They are apparently mange proof, and fatten at any agefrom pighood up, until exceedingly heavy weights are attained; good feeders, making themnet from 300 to 400 pounds each when from seven to ten months old, and from 500 to 900pounds each when from one year to twenty-two months of age. One Jersey farmer raised and slaughtered during the past sixteen years 463 hogs abouttwenty-one months old, that averaged 538 pounds, and dozens of crops of pigs nine monthsold dressed 300 to 375 pounds average. The most notable qualities of the Jersey Red are healthfulness and docility. It wasthese traits that induced me to try them, preferring, like others, a hog
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