KENNEBEC COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



From Report of the Committee on Jerseys and Grade Jerseys, 



To the lYustees of Kennebec County Agricultural Society : 



It was a source of gratification, to a part of your Committee at 

 least, to find the exhibition of Jerseys the present year made up 

 of more individual specimens than any other kind of farm stock on 

 the ground. Whether this was owing to apathy on the part of 

 the owners of other breeds of stock, who have heretofore profited 

 so largely by the encouragements of the Society, until like "Jes- 

 huren" of old, they have waxed fat, and kicked up at their old 

 patron — or to the greater activity and zeal of the Jersey breeders, 

 it is not our duty to decide. We merely mention the fact for the 

 consideration of the trustees. And we also call the attention of 

 both the farming public and the moralist also, that this increase of 

 Jerseys is owing wholly to the attributes of meekness and good 

 works on the part of the hitherto despised Jersey cow, rather than 

 to any particular stateliness of appearance, or blubber on the ribs, 

 or bluster on the show-ground. 



Whatever may be the peculiar prejudices or biases of people in 

 favor of this or that breed of cattle, they all prefer cream to skim- 

 milk, and the calls and demands of the stomach in this respect, 

 invariably knock enough good judgment into their brains to induce 

 thera to appeal to the meek and lowly Jersey for a supply of the 

 genuine article. 



We have not time now, to go into a discussion of the merits or 

 demerits of this race of cattle, or to point out in detail the good or 

 bad points of the several specimens submitted to the judgment of 

 your Committee. This we are willing to do at a more convenient 

 opportunity. 



Your Committee ought to have had more time in which to per- 

 form tlicir services, and we will remark here, in passing, that farm- 

 ers err greatly, in making this, their only festival in the year, such 



