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Title: The Pig
Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing

Author: Sanders Spencer

Release Date: July 4, 2010 [EBook #33074]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _Frontispiece. Photo, Reid, Wishaw._ BREEDING SOWS OF THE
LARGE AND MIDDLE WHITE BREEDS.

The Middle White Sow in the forefront (the property of the Author) was
one of the best ever bred, "Holywell Countess Victoria."]

THE PIG

THE PIG
BREEDING, REARING, AND MARKETING

BY

SANDERS SPENCER

London
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
Henrietta Street
1919

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

INTRODUCTION 13

I. NON-PEDIGREE PIGS 19

II. PURE BREEDS (with Standard Descriptions and
Scales of Points) 26

III. CROSS-BRED PIGS 39

IV. DENTITION AND AGE OF PIGS 49

V. SELECTION OF THE BOAR 54

VI. SELECTION OF THE SOW