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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.
The American Landrace is a long, lean, white pig with 16 or 17 ribs. The head is long and narrow, the ears are large and heavy and hang forward close to the snout. The back is only slightly arched or is nearly flat. The side is even and well-fleshed and the ham is plump but not over-fat.
The development of the breed began in 1947 with crosses of Berkshire sows to boars of Danish Landrace and Chester White ancestry. The goal was to produce a pig that would be appropriate for crossing with the Yorkshire, the dominant breed in Canada at the time. The Lacombe was eventually unveiled to pork producers in 1957, and quickly grew to be ...
[3]: 55 [5]: 132 The American Hampshire was not widespread at this time: a census in Indiana in 1907 found 337 head in a total of over 65 000 in the state, while an estimate of the numbers of pure-bred pigs nationwide reported 3000 Hampshires in a total of just under 164 000, in fifth place behind the Poland-China, the Duroc-Jersey, the ...
Ben Chester White (January 5, 1899 – June 10, 1966) was an African-American caretaker, uninvolved in the civil rights movement, shot down by the KKK. This was likely in an attempt to move focus away from James Meredith ’s March Against Fear or to lure Martin Luther King, Jr . in an assassination attempt.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signs into law a new congressional map that creates second majority Black district in Shreveport, Alexandria, Baton Rouge.
United States v. Louisiana , 382 U.S. 288 (1965), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the state of Louisiana 's entitlement to the lands, minerals and other natural resources underlying the Gulf of Mexico .
Sanford Police Department’s History of Questionable Conduct Trayvon Martin’s case is just one example of the Sanford Police Department’s (SPD) disturbing history of responses to incidents that involve African Americans. In addition to looking into the first response by police on the evening of February 26th, the Department of