WALES’ NATIONAL PIG

Evening Star, Issue 20057, 24 December 1928, Page 9

WALES’ NATIONAL PIG

A GOOD BACONER SPECIAL STAFF TO KEEP • PEDIGREE. The agricultural correspondent of the ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ writes: — The farmers of Wales have at last evolved a national pig. It is to be known as the Welsh Pig, and it has offices all its own and a staff of officials to keep the pedigree charts correctly and pure at No. 10 Egerton street, Wrexham. 1 Those wlio were farmers in the early ’fifties can recall this pig, now nationalised, filling the styes of tho holdings of their fathers and grandfathers. It was, and still is, a white pig, with long, thin, drooping ears, inclined well over the face. Its head is of medium length, and it is fairly wide between the cars. Us nose is fine and straight, and its jovvl is light and clear—in fact, it is a good-looking animal. Its neck is fairly long and muscular, and its chest wide and deep. The shoulders fit nicely and obliquely: the back is long, level, and strong; the sides deep, .with we 11.sprung ribs; and the loin broad. The hams are large and well filled to the hocks, and the tail is set high, well carried, and of good length. The coat is straight and silky, the skin white, and the pig is set sturdily upon short, straight legs with medium bone. _ Blue or copper-coloured spots on the skin are objectional, and black, either in coat or skin, constitutes a disqualification. Captain T. A. Howson, the secretary of the Welsh National P.ig Society, of which Mr David Davies, M.P., is president, says that the breed is of a goahead order, being well adapted to the production of prime pork, while its very build at once proclaims it to bo an ideal baconer—a thing that was proved fifty years ago. The carcass is notable for the lack of wasteful offal.