30 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



Shorthorn strains have been bred for a long time in the dairy 

 Hne. About 1845 the two different strains were well established 

 in the herds of Booth and Bates in England. Booth bred for 

 beef and Bates for the dairy and these two distinct strains have 

 come down to us, but there are probably more beef Shorthorns 

 than dairy Shorthorns today. In the dairy Shorthorn you would 

 have something of the wedge shape with broad rear quarters, 

 allowing for a full udder development, and a large barrel taper- 

 ing to the front, light forequarters and a slender neck and 

 head. In the beef type you would have a square built animal, 

 the forequarters nearly as broad as the rear quarters. The typi- 

 cal beef animal has what is called the rectangular figure. 



DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 

 By Dr. C. D. Smead, Logan, N. Y. 



(Stenographic Copy.) 



The subject assigned to me tonight is sometimes a very easy 

 subject to talk upon, at other times a very hard subject. Disease 

 is something that we do not like to think about. Disease and 

 death are things which we dread. But when we are ailing, then 

 we are ready to talk of these things. We are ready to ask advice 

 of the doctor, and we find people ready to ask any elderly lady in 

 the community, ready to follow any advice. All of humanity 

 come the nearest to one level when they are ailing of any time in 

 their lives. If you who are here tonight had a diseased animal, 

 a horse or a cow, then you would be anxious to ask me if I could 

 tell you of something that would cure him. Farmers are contin- 

 ually seeking for prescriptions. They are asking me daily for 

 remedies for this, that and the other ailment ; but how little 

 interest do they seem to have, all over New York and I believe 

 in INIaine, as to what caused that disease ! We can see from a 

 moment's consideration that it should not be for the farmer to 

 ask for remedies, to try to get hold of some prescription, as much 

 as it should- be for him to study the cause of the disease. Let 

 us consider it a moment. If you had a sick animal, I could talk 

 to you about that special ailment, but as you haven't anything of 



