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Title: Beginnings in animal husbandry
Identifier: beginningsinanim01plum (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939
Subjects: Livestock; Poultry
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. , Webb Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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108 BEGiyXIXGS IX ANIMAL HU8BAXDRY The Large Yorkshire, called in England the ^'Large White," is one of the oldest breeds of swine. Large, coarse, white hogs were bred in eastern and northeastern England before distinctions of types and breeds were knowni. English writers of over a century ago refer to these large, slow- maturing, narrow-backed coarse white hogs. They were improved by selection and breeding, and this work was done
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Fig. GO. A large Yorkshire sow, owned by the Ohio State University, Photo- graph by F. H. Haskett. in part by factory hands and laborers in the middle of the last century. Joseph Tuley was prominent in this work. The Large Yorkshire belongs to the bacon class. As grown today, it is the largest of the breeds. Boars at maturity often weigh 700 pounds or more, and sows 500 pounds. The head inchnes to be a trifle long, from an American point of view, and is sometimes shghtly dished. The ears should be carried erect, but vnth age they usually

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