WALES’S NATIONAL PIG

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1928, Page 7

WALES’S NATIONAL PIG

A GOOD BACON Eli

LONDON, Oct. 19. The agricultural correspondent of the Daily Teicgraph writes:—

Tilt; farmers of Wales have at last evolved a national pig. It is to he 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 ligerton Street, Wrexham. Those who were farmers in the early ’fifties can recall this pig, now nationalised. filling the styes of the holdings >f their fathers and grandfathers. It was, and still is. a white pig, with long, thin, drooping ears, inclined well over the face, fts head is of medium length, and it is fairly wide between the ears.

Its nose is fine and straight, and its jowl 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 ebloquely; the hack is long, level, and strong; the sides deep, with wellsprung 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 and straight legs with medium hone. Itluo or copper-coloured spots on the skin are objectionable, and black, either in coat or skin, constitutes a disqualification.

Captain T. A. Howson. the secretary of the Welsh National Pig Society, of which Mr David Davies, M.P., is president, says that breed is of a go-ahead order, being well adapted to the production of prime pork, while its very build at once proclaims it to be an ideal bnconer—a thing that was proved oO years ago. The carcase is notable for the lack of wasteful offal.