Identifier: illustratedannua1858thom (find matches)
Title: The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year ..
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob)
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture Almanacs, American
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : Luther Tucker
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Fig. 116—Chinese Swine.Chinese Swixe—(Fig. 116.)—There are several distinct varieties ofswine in China, some of which have a remarkable tendency to fatten, andliave been the source of the principal improvement which has been madein the aboriginal stocks of Great Britain, from whence most of our stockhas been derived. Tlie Cliinese swine arc frequently very prolific, produ-cing from twelve to fifteen pigs at a litter. One of those herewith delinea-< ted, Mas suckling thirteen pigs when the portraits were taken. (In previous numbers of the Register, portraits have been presentedof Short-horn, Devon, Hereford, Ayrshire and Alderney cattle ; of BlackHawk and the English cart liorses ; of South Down, Leicester, Spanishand French Merino Sheep ; and of Suflulk, Berkshire, Essex and Land-pike pigs—also several articles on their care and manageinent, and onthe prevention and cure of the diseases to which they arc most frequentlyliable.) Grindino or CRUSiiixa Food.—Chemical experim

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