100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE

July 10, 1920

IT is a great pleasure to read the recent decision of the Large Black Pig Society to recommend that pedigree pigs of certain ages should be of certain minimum weights. Such a decision is one of the great landmarks in the breeding and sale of pedigree stock and will, I believe, have very far-reaching effects. Certainly every other pig society will have to follow suit. This new rule is the best protection that buyers have had against undersized and badly nourished pigs bought without inspection. It will be a guide to new breeders to indicate what their pigs should weigh at certain ages. It should automatically cull out unsuitable pigs for pedigree breeding, and raise the whole standard of the Large Black.