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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.
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 ...
Chestertown Historic District is a national historic district located at Chestertown, Warren County, New York. It includes seven contributing buildings. It includes the Fowler Homestead and related outbuildings, the Church of the Good Shepherd (1884, addition 1954), Chester Town Hall, the Fowler cemetery, and centennial monument (1913).
The cities of New Rochelle, Peekskill, and Yonkers are the locations of 13, 14, and 28 of these properties and districts respectively, including two National Historic Landmarks (one in New Rochelle and one in Yonkers). This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 17, 2025. [2]
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.
Fury Brook Farm, also Bairdlea Farm, is located on King's Highway in the Town of Chester, New York, United States, just north of the hamlet of Sugar Loaf. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 to help protect the land around it from development .
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.
Farms became larger operations that shipped their products to cities in their regions on railroad. With the advent of refrigeration and strict food safety laws, fresh unadulterated milk could easily be purchased by all classes. [2] [3] Today, dairy farming is concentrated in Upstate New York.