DAIRY MEETING. 



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ANALYSES OF MAINE FEINT CORN. 



Name of Grower. 





B. F. Clark, Levant 



S. T. Mallett, Springfield. 

 G. M. Twitchell, Auburn. 

 Ear grown in N. H 



9.04 

 9.11 

 S.88 

 8.81 



Same seed as used bj' boys for special 



premium, 1908 8 . 60 



1.75 11.94 



2.03 12.69 



1 . 90 1 1 . 88 



1.62 10.15 



1.72 10.75 



4.48 1.30 



5.01 1.52 



4.66 1.30 



4.34 1.24 



4.37i 1.25 



71.65 

 70.05 

 71.61 

 74.06 



73.63 



1.59 

 1.62 



1.73 

 1.42 



1.40 



LMPRO\'EMEXT OF THE DAIRY COW. 

 By Prof. P. A. Campbell, Orono. 



Within, the past few years ])henomenal records have been 

 attained in the prockiction of milk and butter-fat from a few 

 individuals among our dairy cattle, but the number has been 

 small and is but a drop in the bucket compared to the twenty 

 million or more cows doing duty in our dairies. Individual 

 herds here and there make good averages, but the general aver- 

 age is low. Probably not more than two or two and a half per 

 cent are pure blooded or are registered in the herd-books ^nd 

 many of those would have to be discarded if anything except 

 pedigree was considered. There is no definite data as to the 

 number of grade animals ; that is. an animal having one pure 

 blooded parent ; but the i)ercentage is far too small. The rest 

 belong to the class commonly called scrubs. AMiat is a scrub? 

 A scrub is an animal witli an ancestry so mixed that it cannot 

 be traced. The scrub is the result of careless breeding; of mix- 

 ing the various breeds indiscriminately for generations until 

 each breed has been lost in the mixup and the result is an 

 unknown quantity. 



The science of breeding we know but little about. Much 

 information has been gained; great progress has been made; 

 but there is a much longer distance to travel. Theories have 



