The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Beeton

784. THOUGH ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY IN ENGLAND can boast some local variety

or other of this useful animal, obtained from the native stock by crossing with some of the foreign kinds, Cumberland and the north-west parts of the kingdom have been celebrated for a small breed of white pigs, with a thick, compact, and well-made body, short in the legs, the head and back well formed, ears slouching and a little downwards, and on the whole, a hardy, profitable animal, and one well disposed to fatten.