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portion of them that must have a dra^^ ride, let them liire some 

 team and pay what it is worth, get up a show of their own and give 

 the Committee a chance to attend to their duty." 



Steers. The first premium on three years old steers, was awarded 

 to Bradford Cummings. "Noble fellows," the Committee say. 



Mr. C.'s statement is as follows : 



"The steers I present for i^remium, were three years old last 

 May ; their girth about seven feet ; were raised by me on my farm 

 in Letter D Plantation ; do not know how much they weigh. The 

 winter they were calves, they were fed on hay and about two (quarts 

 oat-meal per day, and three quarts potatoes twice a week; since 

 that time their keeping has been one peck of cut turnips each a day 

 and oat and wheat straw fed as it came from the threshing machine ; 

 after the middle of March, each year, gave them hay ; their keeping 

 in summer a good red clover and herdsgrass pasture. The breed is 

 Durham and native ; I consider this breed combine both the quali- 

 ties of work and beef. The cost of keeping the first year after they 

 were weaned, $10 ; the second year, $17; the tliird year, $20." 



Bradford Cummings. 

 Letter D Plantation, Oct 6, 1857. 



Town Teams. The town team shown from Letter D, consisted of 

 twenty-three pairs, of which five pairs measured upwards of seven 

 feet each. 



Cows. First premium on stock cow, to B. Cummings ; second 

 do. do., to J. "W. ILiines. 



First premium on milch cow, to E. W. Waite. 



Of this cow Mr. Waite states : " White and red cow, twelve years 

 old, part English, (probably Ayrshire,) raised by me: when a 

 week old learned to drink; grown at very moderate cost; value, 

 $60 ; has given twenty-five quarts of milk per day and made six- 

 teen and three-fourths pounds of butter per week." 



Of a stock cow and heifer, shown by Mr. Stevens, he states : 

 " My heifer is a cross of the Durham and Hereford. Tlie second 



week in September I made from this heifer seven pounds of butter ; 



she had no other feed than what she got in the pasture that she had 



