Show The liiillli Ilse The Illustration In connection with thl article shoos the old IJngllsh hog after ho I had been Improved by genera tlniiHof selection and breeding He is I hardly In be compared to the hog of the present day but Is I n very great lin t pnnement the wild boar Illustrated Illus-trated two week ngu and also when I compared to the Irish pig shown last week Thl better type was brought about by crossing tha wild hoar l on a Chinese sow It will be nottcul that the leg are much shorter and the tueat iNirtlon well developed An early writer says tilt will weigh more III proportion to site than u w lid l boar und is I withal n better animal In all the pig points Thus descendants of this old breed arc now seen principally In the western counties of England hero hng nof Immciisa slie 1 are ttlll raised but greatly Improved when compared with their ancestry all of tho polntmif the < hlllron1 Kngllsh hog being much liner thus carcass thicker ann the propensity to fallen greatly i oerO r Increased Tho I breed Is exceedingly prolific limo sows which are excellent nurse often having I I from twelve to eighteen pig In I one litter It I sup M > sed that time llerkshlra und Iliap skim canoe originally from this stuck but by koine early crow obtained their present characteristic |