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than cig-ht to twelve quarts, and twenty-four during June and 

 July." ^ 



Asa B. ParsonS; East Parsonsficld, showed a cow weighing 

 1,716 pounds; girtli 6 feet 11 iuclics ; commends tlic breed for 

 dairy, beef and stock. 



Samuel Millikin, Saco, showed a Grade Durham and Devon; 

 '•'regards this cross as best combining the qualities which con- 

 stitute a valuable animal — the first for growth and disposition, 

 the latter for color and activity. I give very little grain, as 1 

 consider it imprudent for farmers to feed grain to young stock 

 while we are dependent upon other States for it, being our- 

 selves more of a hay growing than grain growing community." 



North Deyons. 

 John R Anderson, South Windham, exhibited North Devon 

 cattle, of whicli he says : — '• I prefer them, as more hardy and 

 hearty in feeding, earlier maturity, greater uniformity of color, 

 size and shape, and better quality of milk than any, except the 

 Aldernay or Jersey cows, and better suited to the soil and cli- 

 mate of Maine. Have never seen a vicious or tricky Devon. 

 I believe them to be more docile and tractable than any other." 

 Of a Devon cow, he says : " She has been kept on rough fodder 

 and hay, with a few carrots and turnips in winter, grass in sum- 

 mer, no grain of any kind, is remarkably gentle, and promises 

 to excel in quantity as well as quality of milk. Cannot give 

 her average while in milk, but in June and July she gave more 

 than two ten quart pails full each day, eighteen quarts milk 

 measure." (Pedigrees of several as follows :) 



Bull, Norfolk Third. 

 Devon; calved April, 1855; bred by N. J. Clakeslee, Water- 

 town, Conn., now the property of John F. Anderson of South 

 Windham, Maine. Won the first prize as a full blood yearling 

 hull, at the second exhibition of the Maine State Agricultural 

 Society, October, 1856. Sire, Norfolk, 2d ; Or. Sire, Norfolk, 

 (266.) Dam, Fancy, by Prince Albert ; Prince Albert by Cham- 

 pion, Champion by Cloomfield, (148 ;) Bloomfield by Patterson's 

 bull. Eclipse (191 ;) Grand dam, Victoria, by a bull, the get of 

 Bloomfield, (148 ;) Great grand dam, Beauty by Matchless, the 

 get of Ptcd Rover, (352.) 



