. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. IS- SWINE Franklin County. They are generally supposed to be nearly identi- cal with the Siamese, but may be akin to the Swingtailed breed of the early Enghsh ; According to H. F. Work of Indiana, Henry James, a Boone County (Kentucky) farmer, in a visit to some of the Eastern states in the early thirties, saw some belted hogs. These he described to Major Joel Garnett, who in- vestigated and later purchased from people in Atlantic seaboard states 14 or 15 of these pigs, which were delivered to his agent. Fig. 350. Colonel Lakeside 218
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. IS- SWINE Franklin County. They are generally supposed to be nearly identi- cal with the Siamese, but may be akin to the Swingtailed breed of the early Enghsh ; According to H. F. Work of Indiana, Henry James, a Boone County (Kentucky) farmer, in a visit to some of the Eastern states in the early thirties, saw some belted hogs. These he described to Major Joel Garnett, who in- vestigated and later purchased from people in Atlantic seaboard states 14 or 15 of these pigs, which were delivered to his agent. Fig. 350. Colonel Lakeside 21865, winner of the Hampshire Advocate trophy as the best boar under one year old at the Illinois State Fair in 1914. A successful sire owned by C. L. Moore & Sons, Tremont, IlHnois. From photograph, by courtesy of the owners in Philadelphia and later driven on foot or hauled in wagons to Pittsburgh, from which point they were taken by boat to Kentucky, reaching there in 1835. Shepard, in his writings,^ refers to the Norfolk Thin Rind — first imported from England in 1830 by Henry Degroot of New York — as similar to the Thin Rind, although his references to color do not specify a belted pig. How- ever, the author has in his possession ^ a wood engraving of special 1 S. M. Shepard, The Hog in America. Indianapolis, 1886. ^ Received through the courtesy of the Breeders^ Gazette. Digitized by Microsoft®. 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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