north kennebec society. 2t1 



Statements and Scraps gathered from Statements. 



The oxen -which received first premium for "fat and fancy oxen," 

 were grade Durhams. The exhibitor says he prefers these, because 

 the Durham blood gives size, docility and symmetry, and the native 

 blood furnishes activity and hardiness. 



Charles Drummond, who obtained premium on grade Durhams 

 for working oxen, says substantially the same, viz : that an infusion 

 of short-horn blood makes oxen of fine form, square and handsome ; 

 are more ^active than pure short-horn, and more quiet, docile and 

 easy to fatten than natives. 



Mr. Paine obtained first premium on dairy cow, and the Secre- 

 tary's notes on the margin of his statement, that though large, it is 

 fully reliable. It is as follows : 



WiNSLOW, September, 1857. 

 Native cow, " Fidie," eight years old, owned by B. C. Paine j 

 calved April 27th; raised calf; gave her new milk till June 1st. 

 Had then made thirty-three pounds of butter. Made one hundred 

 and forty-nine pounds of butter in June, July and August ; skimmed 

 the night's milk next morning, for calf, till June 20th ; used and 

 sold one hundred and eighty-four quarts of milk (milk measure) in 

 June, July and August — (butter weighed when ready to lay down 

 for winter.) Weight of milk in June, July and August, four thou- 

 sand sixty-five pounds — 44^| pounds per day. The last ten days in 

 June, made twenty-five pounds of butter from all the milk. Cow 

 kept in small pasture ; gave her mowed grass till July 20th, then 

 gave her corn fodder at night — one-twelfth acre in forty days ; no 

 meal, grain or roots of any kind. 



B. C. Paine. 



The second premium on dairy cows was awarded to Wm. Hodg- 

 kins, for a grade Durham, seven years old. Of her, he says : 



" She is better adapted for milk and butter than for stock, although 

 her progeny inherit her dairy qualities in a good degree. She has 

 never given a large quantity of milk, but from half her milk in May 

 last, twenty-seven and a half pounds of butter was made; from three- 

 fourths of her milk in June, forty-four pounds was made ; and from 

 the whole, except one quart per day used in my family, in July, 



