Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-04-05
THE FARMING WORLD.
THE YORKSHIRE HOG.
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Yorkshire, and to me it seems as If
had excellent reasons for the prefer
ence. Stockmen have often heard
through the columns of the press of the
Small Yorkshire or short-faced Lanca-
shire hog, and it has many admirable
qualities. This breed will mature with
surprising rapidity and fatten with an
amount of food on which hogs of tho
coarser breeds would nearly starve.
Harris on the Pig" page 60, says: mo
animal of the pig species carries so great
proportion of flesh to the quantity of
bone or flesh of so fine quality as the
Small Yorkshire, or can be raised at so
small cost per pound" The fact that
importers quote Small Yorkshires at one
and half to two times as high as any
other breed proves Harris statement
that they are the most popular breed in
England, that they can be raised at the
smallest cost per pound, which is the
real test of any breed, and is due to
three principal points in which they
are conceded to excel all other breeds,
viz: power Of assimilation, perfection
of form, and quietness of disposition.
No other breed will keep in good con-
dition on so little or grow 80 fast on an
equal amount of food. Any person
familiar with the breed knows that in
their short wide, dished face, full fore
head, short neck and legs, heavy jowls,
deep bodies, and square, heavy hams
they are peculiar. The large proportion
of muscle, or red lean meat, gives the
Yorkshire plump, meaty appearance,
Z faI
farmers accustomed to more bony breeds
think Yorkshire is in growing con-
dition when he is really in starving
condition.
Some people pay large price for a
pig upon which generations of good
breeding and feeding have been be-
slowed to make a profitable meat-pro-
ducing animal and then starve him and
make him look like an inferior native.
With breeding stock Of this kind two
things are necessary: Owing to the
easy fattening qualities of the breed,
avoid fat-producing FOOD and give abun-
dance of exercise at all times. / never
had Yorkshire that failed to breed,
and some have been fed strong for the
show-ring, for the Yorkshires will breed
in fatter condition than any other
family. In uniformity of breeding they
excel all other breeds, and, as for
strong constitution, you can breed one
hundred black sows to Yorkshire
male hog and every pig will be white,
and not even one black hair will be
found upon them. If man wants to
raise pork for market would recon-
mend him to take the Yorkshire male
and cross him on large-sized sows of any
breed and he will get pork two months
earlier with one-quarter less feed than
ordinarily. The old English writer,
Sidney, says: when you desire pence
and shillings for profit there is no hog
living equal to the little Yorkshires;"
and again he says: 81 will feed fifty
little Yorkshires where any other man
can feed twenty of any other breed on
the same amount of feed. Whenever
your market price is right all you need
do is to open your gates and say: Come,
porkers,' and they are always ready"
So far as my experience goes they have
also invariably been good mothers,
quiet, attentive and unusually careful,
being in this particular, 1 think, super
also found them on an average quite
equal to sows of other breeds as suck
lers. In all other breeds, even the
coarsest it is common to find sows that
are worth very little to furnish milk for
litter of pigs, and find quite as small
a proportion of poor suckers among
Yorkshires as among sows of other fau-
lilies.
/ am frequently asked what they
weigh at from nine to twelve months
old, and also what they weigh when ma
tured. They vary in this respect, like
all others; at nine months old, / may
say, live weight, from 225 to 800 lbs,
and at twelve months old they have
dressed ordinarily from 275 to 300 lbs.
have several that would readily fat up
to dress 500 to 600 lbs, and in dressing
for market there is no other breed of
swine that, when in an apparently SINH
lar condition, will dress with so little
waste as the Small Yorkshire. In this
particular they are so deceptive that
one unfamiliar with them and unaccus-
toned to seeing them weighed, either
alive or dressed, would come far from
the mark in attempting to estimate
either the live or dead weight of the
best specimens simply by the eye. Then
taking Small Yorkshire measuring the
same in length from rear of ham to tip
of snout as Chester White and COM
pairing the weight of the two, there will
be difference in weight apparently out
of all proportion to the size of the pigs,
the Yorkshire outweighing the other.
But ii the lengGh of the two pigs be
taken from the base of the ear to the
roar of the ham the Yorkshire will be
found to measure several inches more
in body than the Chester, thus having
the advantage in weight of body, ham,
shoulders and bacon. The Yorkshire
also loses in dressing smaller percent
age than any other breed of pigs. I
have mentioned few of their superior
points and could name several more, but
will not take up the time of others to do