Citations:yelt

English citations of yelt

• 1804, Thomas Pickford, “On Hogs”, in Annals of Agriculture, and Other Useful Arts‎^[1], volume 42, R. Phillips, →OCLC, page 383:

  I seldom have good luck with my first litters from yelts

• 1899, Sanders Spencer, “Pigs on the farm.”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (series 5)‎^[2], volume 11, W.Blackwood & Sons, page 279:

  There is a considerable difference of opinion as to the age at which yelts should be first mated. Some experienced breeders of pigs view with favour the system of allowing the yelts to be about a year old […]

• 1904 June 2, H. W. Potts, “Hawkesbury Agricultural College and Experimental Farm. The Pig Industry.”, in The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales‎^[3], volume 15, number 1, New South Wales, Australia. Dept. of Agriculture, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 573:

  The young sow, before she has had a litter, is known as a "yelt.” When establishing a pig farm, it is best to purchase yelts before they fully mature, and when in moderate store condition. Each yelt should be selected from a large litter noted for activity, vigour, even make, and great vitality.

• 1909, Henry Stephens, James Macdonald, “Penistone Sheep”, in Stephens’ Book of the Farm: Dealing Exclusively With Every Branch of Agriculture (Fifth Edition)‎^[4], William Blackwood and Sons, page 224:

  Nomenclature of Pigs: The denominations of pigs are the following: When new-born they are called sucking pigs,piglings,piglets, or simply pigs; and the male is a boar pig, the female sow pig,hilt, elt,yilt,yelt, or gilt. A castrated male, after it is weaned, is a shot or hog. Hog is he name mostly used by naturalists, and very frequently by writers on agriculture; but to avoid confusion with the name given to young sheep (hogg), it is convenient to use the terms pig and swine for the sake of distinction. The term hog is derived from a He few term signifying “to have narrow eyes,” a feature which is characteristic of the pig. A spayed female is a cut sow pig or gelt. As long as both sorts of cut pigs are fat and young, they are porkers, porklings, or London porket-pigs. A female that has not been spayed, and before it bears young, is an open sow or hilt, elt, yilt, yelt, or gilt; and an entire male, after being weaned, is always a boar or brawn. A cut boar is a browner. A female that has taken the boar is said to be served or lined; when bearing young she is an in-pig or brood-sow; and when she has brought forth pigs she has littered orfarrowed, and her family of pigs at birth form a litter or farrow of pigs.