DISCARDED PIG BREEDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 142, 18 June 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)

DISCARDED PIG BREEDS

AN INTERESTING LIST. Local breeds of pigs have been slowly disappearing from British farm practice. Here is a list uf which there are a few representatives in Britain to-day:— The Norfolk and Suffolk White Pig; The small White Essex type. The Sussex Black (of proved Neapolitan descent). The Hampshire Black, large type and high on the leg. The Improved Hampshire, a black of style, made better by selection. The Dorset Slate-coloured, almost hairless pig. Tho Cornish Small Black (beaten out of place by the Large Black). The Blue Spotted White pig of Lin coinshire. Cambs., and Norfolk. The Plum Pudding, or black-and white spotted pigs of Northampton shire, Leicestershire, and Oxfordshire. The Bedfordshire White (beaten out < *• sight by the Large White'' The Small Whites of Lancashire and Yorkshire, handsome but useless; and perchance mans others which died, unhonoured and unsung, and for their country’s good. Breeds recognised today by the Koval Agricultural Society and other show promoters are: Berkshire. Essex. Gloucestershire Old Spot. Large Black, Large While. Middle White, Tamworlh, Wessex Saddleback. Lincolnshire Guriy Coated. Welsh, I’umberlaud, and Long White These number 12, and a 13th. breed is the Largo White Ulster.