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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
The Environs of London
… seam; it is now generally applied to the omentum of a pig, of which they make lard. Some derive it from the Latin …
A History of the County of Oxford
… breed are produced in the county. The Oxfordshire or sandy pig, a cross betwixt a Tamworth and a Berkshire, is considered the pig of the county, and except that he feeds rather slowly, is …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… dairies. 181 The other adjunct to the dairy was the pig. Young estimated that one sow was kept for every 20 cows. … corn. 182 Here too the type changed. The Berkshire spotted pig, like the Leicester crossed sheep, came to be reared in … a family and fatten a few pigs. 240 It was estimated that pig-keeping yielded 6 d. a week, and the pig was sold, not …