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The Chester White is the most durable of the white breeds; it can gain as much as 1.36 pounds (0.62 kg) a day and gain 1 pound (0.45 kg) for every 3 pounds (1.4 kg) of grain it is fed. Their pale color leaves Chester Whites prone to sunburn; they must be given access to shade in the summer. [1]
The show is about a fictional lawyer, Oliver Wendell Douglas, and his wife, Lisa – city-dwellers who move to Hooterville, a farming community populated by oddballs. Arnold is a pig of the Chester White breed, but is treated as the son of farmer Fred Ziffel and his wife, Doris, a childless couple. Everyone in Hooterville (besides Oliver ...
Breed name Notes Image American Berkshire [1]: 536 American Landrace [2] American Yorkshire [2] Chester White [2] Choctaw Hog [2] Duroc [2] Guinea Hog [2] Hampshire [2] Hereford [2] Lacombe: Canada; [3] in the USA known as Saddleback [2] Mulefoot [2] Ossabaw Island Hog [2] Pineywoods [2] Poland China [2] Red Wattle Hog [2] Spotted Poland China ...
The new breed was founded on stock that was either purebred Danish or had a small percentage of Poland China blood. To reduce inbreeding, thirty-eight pigs of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Landrace descent were imported in 1954 from Norway. [3]: 405 [2]: 537
Ferncliff Farm (or Ferncliff) was an estate established in the mid 19th century by William Backhouse Astor Jr. (1829–1892) in Rhinebeck, New York.Not far from his mother's estate of Rokeby, where he had spent summers, Ferncliff was a working farm with dairy and poultry operations, as well as stables where he bred horses.
Bush-Lyon Homestead is a historic home located at Port Chester, Westchester County, New York. The earliest part was built about 1720. The earliest part was built about 1720. It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, five-by-two-bay, frame residence faced in shingles and clapboards.
Main Street, Chester, New York, March 1914. The village of Chester is located at (41.357378, -74.275488). [3] and has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.5 km 2), all land. Highway access is provided by NY-94. Goose Pond Mountain State Park is southeast of the village.
They eventually began growing the pungent, highly prized black dirt onion on the land, taking advantage of the relative proximity of New York City as a market. By the late 20th century, the region produced an average of 30,000 lb/acre of onion (3.4 kg/m 2). Today, due to changing popular tastes in onions and different economic realities, that ...