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provender of any kind. He was allowed to serve twelve cows while 

 a yearling. This season he was kept up till the middle of July, his 

 feed being hny and from two to three quarts of oat and pea meal 

 per day. He was then turned out to pasture, and has had no prov- 

 ender since. He has served between fifty and sixty cows this season. 

 The calves of his get, out of native cows, are a great improvement 

 on our common stock, showing many of the peculiar Durham points, 

 and bid fair to make superior animals. On the side of both sire 

 and dam he is descended from excellent milking stock — several of 

 the cows named in the foregoing pedigree having made from fuvr- 

 teen to fifteen pounds of butter per week, according to the certifi- 

 cate of Mr. Lathrop of Massachusetts, who bred and owned them. 

 His girth \s five feet nine inches. 



I give the pedigree of the bull calf: 



" Unras. Color roan. Bred by I. W. Case, Kcnduskeag. Me. 

 Calved May 2d, 1857. Got by Bay State (237). Dam Stella, 

 (exhibited here to-day,) by Cosmo (1398). 



gr. dam Clota, by Young Comet (2418). 



g. gr. d. Spot, by Young Fitz Favorite (2428). 



g. g. gr. d. Kate, by Banquo (1226). 



g. g. g. gr. d. Judy, alias Betty, imported by Henry DeGroot, 

 New York." 



Bay State, his sire (also the sire of Boxer) is a very superior 

 animal, owned by the Messrs. Wardsworth, and the winner of the 

 first prize at the State Fair, in Portland, last year. 



This calf was taught to drink when one week old, and has had 

 half the milk of one cow through the season. He was turned to 

 pasture the middle of June, and since that time has had with his 

 milk, night and morning, a porridge of Indian meal, gradually in- 

 creased in quantity from half a pint to three pints a day. 



I regard this breed of cattle as superior to others in docility, gen- 

 tleness, eaily maturity, and good feeding and milking qualities. 

 They will thrive on the same quality of feed that our native stock 

 will, and require no greater quantity than they in proportion to 

 their live weight. 



Isaac W. Case. 



September 25th, 1857. 



