350 waldo county society. 



Town Teams. 



The Committee on Town Teams award first premium to the Bel- 

 fast team; second do., to the Monroe team. 



" In regard to the teams examined, thej would say that the team 

 entered by H. Hayford for Belfast, was as fine a one as your Com- 

 mittee ever saw hitched together. We could have selected a better 

 team if we had been allowed to make our selection from all that 

 were exhibited upon the fair ground, but we think no town in this 

 part of the State can produce as fine a team of oxen as Belfast. 



The teams consisted of eight yokes each, although Belfast had 

 twice that number upon the ground, but did not wish to claim the 

 premium by outnumbering their competitors from a distance. 



The average girth of the Belfast team was seven feet three inches ; 

 the average age, five years. 



Tbe team entered by H. McKenney for Monroe, was a fine one. 

 Mr. McKenney had three yokes in the team, one yoke of which was 

 the largest exhibited at the fair." 



Dairy. 



The report on Dairy Products awards premiums to certain num- 

 bers, not giving names. The following statements are found : 



"My dairy consists of five cows, four new milch and one farrow 

 cow. During the winter they were kept on hay ; in the spring 

 I gave them about two quarts of meal a day each for a few weeks 

 after calving. Their feed during the summer has been on high 

 and low land — rather poor. Am not particular about the breed of 

 my cows. They made from the 20th of May to the 20ih of 

 September, five hundred weight of butter. During this time, I 

 used two quarts of milk per day. I set my milk in a cool room 

 above the cellar, in tin pans, and let it remain from thirty-six to 

 forty-eight hours ; churn cream only ; wash the butter once. After 

 woiking it thoroughly to free it from milk, add salt to suit the taste ; 

 do not consider salt essential to keep the butter sweet." 



Howard Murphy. 



