OXFORD COUNTY SOCIETY. 2g5 



T. 0. Brown showed a herd of Devons, purchased not long since 

 in Vermont. In his statement, he says he prefers this breed as 

 more docile and quiet, more hardj and cheaply kept than any other 

 stock, and excellent for the dairy, making a larger quantity of but- 

 ter and cheese. v 



S. S. Hersey speaks of the same as superior for labor, having a 

 quicker step, and more easily matched than others. 



A. T. Holt entered a herd of ten animals, mostly Herefords, 

 which he commends as superior to the Durhams for beef and for 

 labor — arc more closely built, more cheaply kept, better travelers, 

 will grow about as large, and make as good cows for the dairy. 



C. A. Noyes exhibited grade Durham and Ayrshire, and Here- 

 ford and Ayrshire cattle, as well as other breeds, and speaks highly 

 of the above named crosses. 



L. E. Kane showed grade Durham steers, two years old, measur- 

 ing six feet and seven inches, and weighing two thousand six hun- 

 dred and sixty pounds — grown with hay till February, and then a 

 quart of corn and cob meal added. 



Darius Forbes of South Paris, in his statement in regard to his 

 grade Hereford bull Hercules, says : 



" This is the same bull that was presented last year as a yearling. 

 He was kept last winter the same as I kept the rest of my stock, 

 on hay, and a part of the winter they had a few roots. He now 

 girts six feet and two inches, and weighs twelve hundred and forty 

 pounds. He has been kept up during the summer and had only 

 hay except during the months of May, June and a part of July. 

 He then had but two quarts of corn and cob meal per day. He is 

 said by the breeder to be three-fourths Hereford. 



My experience with the Herefords has been but limited ; but from 

 that experience, and what I can gather from others and seen of them 

 in other hands, I prefer them to all others, as being better adapted 

 to the wants of the farmer on our soil and in our climate, thaa 

 any other breed I know any thing about. They attain a weight 

 equal to the Durhams — are more compact in their make, and for 

 beef have less oflfal. For w"orking oxen, they not only have size, 

 but their muscles are exceedingly well developed ; and their osseous 

 systems are well grown but compact in their joints, and formed for 

 great strength and activity : and their feet of good size, and hoofa 



