. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. THE ESSEX 775 received first prizes on a boar and sow at the Royal Agricultural Society Show at Cambridge, which gave the breed much fame. Since the time of Mr. Hobbes this breed has become distributed in England, especially in Suffolk County, adjoining Essex, where the leading breeders reside. In England to-day the Essex is generally known as the Small Black breed or Black Suffolk. The introduction of the Essex pig to America dates back to early in the last century. The old-fashioned type of Essex, it is thought, was owned about 1820 in Massachus
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. THE ESSEX 775 received first prizes on a boar and sow at the Royal Agricultural Society Show at Cambridge, which gave the breed much fame. Since the time of Mr. Hobbes this breed has become distributed in England, especially in Suffolk County, adjoining Essex, where the leading breeders reside. In England to-day the Essex is generally known as the Small Black breed or Black Suffolk. The introduction of the Essex pig to America dates back to early in the last century. The old-fashioned type of Essex, it is thought, was owned about 1820 in Massachusetts, John Prince having a crossbred sow, part Essex, part Chinese. In 1839' Henry Parsons of Canada imported and kept Essex pigs near Massillon, Ohio. In 1886 S. M. Shepard wrote that of recent years a number of im- portations had been made and a few herds kept in New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee, and a few other states. One of the extensive breeders and importers of twenty-five years ago was William Smith of Michigan. Characteristics of the Essex pig. This breed has certain very distinguishing features. The color is entirely black. The head is rather short, the face is slightly dished, the forehead is broad, and the ears are small, fine, and carried erect. The jozvl is rather-broad and full. The neck is short, the back very broad and somewhat short and strongly carried, while the sides are deep and short. The shoulders are well laid and thickly fleshed, and the hams are thick and deep and of superior merit. The legs, which tend to be rather short, show bone of fine quality. Inform the Essex is distinctly of the thick-fleshed, fat, chunky sort, and perhaps no breed in England has been fattened to_ so high a deOTee There is also criticism of enfeebled constitution. ucgict. J. V, Digitized by Microsoft®. Fig. 357. An Essex boar owned by Charles Lafferty, Little Valley, New York. From photograph, by courtesy of Mr. Lafferty. Please note that these images are ex
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