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?a1500 in Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum (1817) I. 443 She must purvey iiij bacon hogis for the covent.

1573 G. Gascoigne Disc. Aduentures Master F. I. in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 216 I will (by report of my very good friend F. I.) discribe him vnto you. Hee was in height, the proportion of twoo Pigmeys, in bredth the thicknesse of two bacon hogges, of presumption a Gyant, of power a Gnat.

1612 J. Taylor Trav. in Wks. (1872) 35 For most of them are as full of humanity as a bacon-hog.

1677 Poor Robin's Visions iv. 48 A little before these, came a parcel of drowned Rats, but as fat as Bacon-hogs; they had been half rosted, and half boiled, by their rank scent.

1709 Bp. W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Encomium Moriæ 17 As lusty as so many bacon-hogs or sucking calves.

1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Dec. 74 Their Butchers make no Difficulty of killing Bacon-Hogs and Porkers throughout the whole Summer.

1837 T. Hood Agric. Distress 35 When swish! in bolts our bacon-hog Atwixt the legs o' Master Blogg.

1860 J. Donaldson Brit. Agric. 490 Two lots of bacon hogs may be fattened during the curing season from October to April.

1900 Oxf. Times 1 Dec. 2 Prizes..for bacon hogs and porkets.

1930 Times 22 Dec. 18/4 The prize for the two best heavy bacon hogs was won by Mr. A. Maskell.

1993 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 30 Aug. b5 1,599 slaughter hogs moved from Ontario to the U.S. during July. Of that, 738 were sows, 477 boars and 384 bacon hogs.