A WELSH PIG

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 18 December 1928, Page 12

A WELSH PIG

GOOD BACONER THE PEDIGREE STANDARD (From "The Post's" Representative.) LOIN DON, 19th October. The Agricultural correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" writes: "The farmers of Wales have at last evolved a national pig. It is to be known as the Welsh pig, and it has offices all its own and a staff of officials to keep -the pedigree charts correctly and pure at No. 10,. Egerton street, Wexham. "Those who were farmers in the early 'fifties can recall this pig, now nationalised, filling the styes of tho holdings of their fathers and grandfathers. It was, and still is, a white pig, with long, thin, drooping cars, inclined well over the face. Its head is of medium length, and it is fairly wide between the ears. Its nose is fine and straight, and its jowl is light and clear —in fact, it is a good-looking animal. Its neck is fairly long and muscular, and its chest wide and deep. The shoulders fit nicely and obliquely; the back is long, level, and strong; tho sides deep, with wellsprung ribs, and the loin broad. The hams are large and well filled to tho hocks, and the tail is set high, well carried, and of good length. Tho coat is straight and silky, tho skin white, and the pig is sot sturdily upon short and straight legs with medium bone. "Bluo or copper coloured spots on the skin aro objectionable, and black, either in coat or skin, constitutes a disqualification." Captain T. A. Howson, tho secretary of the Welsh National Pig Society, of which Mr. David Davies, M.P., is president, says that the breed is of a go' ahead order, being well adapted to the production of prime pork, while its very build at onco proclaims it to be an ideal baconer—a thing that was proved fifty years ago. The carcass is notable for the lack of wasteful offal.