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" The heifer was brought up b}' hand and fed with milk warm 

 from the cow with a little corn meal till four months old, when 

 she was turned out to grass. Througli the winter she had a 

 plenty of good hay, with a few carrots and a little meal every 

 day. 



" All tlie cows are better breeders than milkers, though tliey 

 are all fair milkers. The native cow holds out the longest in 

 milk, hut the grade Devon gives the most milk for two or three 

 months after calving, or till again with calf, when her milk rap- 

 idly fails." Through the months of June and July they will 

 average about nineteen or twenty quarts of milk per day. 



'^ The mother of the heifer is the grade Durham, and was 

 but two years old when she dropped lier calf. She was fed on 

 hay, carrots and meal through the winter, the quantity being 

 increased as her period of calving advanced." 



Statement of A. iS. Bartlctt, Norway. "I present for pre- 

 mium, one three years old and one four years old heifer and a 

 bull calf. These animals arc of the Durham breed. The calf 

 is four and one-half months old. The size above other cattle, 

 I consider a very desirable object. For workers, the oxen of 

 this breed liave no superiors. The three years old heifer was 

 bred by Dr. Snow of Atkinson ; the four years old, by Samuel 

 Jamison of Sebec, and the other calf by myself. The calf has liad 

 what milk the heifer gave through the season. No other feed 

 except what grass he may have eaten, ffe was turned with the- 

 cow twice a da}'. In my experience, T find them to bo superior 

 as breeders, and also good milkers; giving milk up to the time- 

 of calving if desired. Then heifers, in good feed, will average 

 about twenty quarts of milk per day. The milk is of a superior 

 quality. I use my coarse fodder with a few carrots and pota- 

 toes in the first part of the winter. In tlie latter part, I use 

 good hay, keeping salt in an accessible place for them to eat 

 ■when they choose." 



SwKE. Statement of Darius Foi^hes of Paris. "I present 

 for premium a boar and a sow with four pigs. The boar is a 

 Suffolk and the sow a native long snout. I prefer the Suffolk 

 on account of the early period at which they attain maturity ;. 

 their good feeding and fattening properties, and the superior 

 quality of their flesh. The boar was bred in Stonehara, Mass., 

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