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native stock. Whoever desires a /ancy herd of cattle — sleek, uni- 

 form in color, and of a small, symmetrical and clean-limbed make, 

 regardless of i>rofit^ can probably do no better than to take the 

 Devons. 



Darius Forbes. 

 South Paris, Oct. 5, 1857. 



Swine. 



Benjamin Richards exhibited a full blooded Suffolk boar, im- 

 ported from Massachusetts. Thinks this breed very valuable to 

 cross with the common coarser breeds. 



F. E. Buck showed a Suffolk sow, one year old ; also boar and 

 pigs — prefers them for easy fattening. 



H. W. Millett showed half a dozen Suffolks, and commends them 

 for being easily and cheaply kept — yielding fine grained and very 

 sweet meat, and little bone and offal — thinks grades preferable to 

 full bloods — keeps them well on slops and raw roots ; but to fatten 

 adds corn meal mixed with a little rye. 



Darius Forbes also showed Suffolks. His statements are as fol- 

 lows : 



Suffolk Boar " GeneraV — This is the same animal presented 

 last year for premium, and is three years old this fall. He is a 

 very superior stock animal. The sow herewith presented, was sired 

 by him. His pigs attain early maturity, weighing, at from eight to 

 nine months old, when well cared for, from three hundred and 

 seventy-five to o\qv four hundred and fifty pounds. Last year, 

 one of his pigs weighed four hundred fifty-eight and one-half 

 pounds at nine months old, dead weight ; and this year, one of them, 

 at the same age, weighed tJiree hundred and ninety-six pounds. 

 He is very long bodied, takes fat very readily, and is as gentle and 

 docile as a sheep. He has been kept, during the past season, on 

 grass, weeds, waste turnips, cabbages and carrot tops, green corn 

 fodder and other waste matters, with a little wheat bran, and a part 

 of the time, a little dry corn. He will weigh about four hundred 

 pounds, live weight, in his present reduced condition. 



. Darius Forbes. 



South Paris, Oct. 5, 1857. 



