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being larger, hardier, and mature earlier; take on fat easier, 

 raise more lambs in proportion than any other breed, having 

 generally twins." 



Swine. 



W. M. Ladd, Winthrop, exhibited full blooded Suffolk boar 

 and sow; '-'regards this breed as superior to any other on ac- 

 count of the facility with which they take on fat, and its supe- 

 rior quality ; has kept them for breeding, and stints them in 

 food, as otherwise they get too fat for this purpose ; are very 

 docile and quiet, always apparently at ease in body and mind ; 

 are not so likely to be cross to their young as others." 



F. 0. Henley, Portland, exhibited sow with twelve pigs; 

 "the pigs by H. V. Bartol's Suffolk boar; has had four litters 

 in seventeen months of eight, fourteen, eleven, fourteen, making 

 forty-seven in all." 



John Kezar, East Winthrop, says : 



" One litter of pigs which I have entered is sis weeks and 

 three days, and the other six weeks and four days old ; they are 

 the progeny of those breeds which have been most popular in 

 this State ; and I have procured some breeders from other 

 States ; their size is large and thrifty, and one was from a sow 

 which weighed over six hundred pounds when dressed; one 

 litter came of a sow raised in Rowley, Mass., and was said to 

 be a cross of the Chester Co. and Mackey, which was said to 

 have made the thriftiest and heaviest hogs of any breed which 

 they had tried in that vicinity ; she is five years old, raised ten 

 large litters of pigs, and fully proved the superiority of her 

 breed; the other litter came of one of her pigs, which is two 

 years old ; the pigs have been fed with corn while on the sows." 



Poultry. 



Statement of Dr. E. Holmes, Winthrop. 



I have found the English red cap hens to lay as many eggs as 



any breed I ever kept, but they do not set very readily. I feed 



them on corn, with meat, ofial, &c. In the winter, ruta bagas, 



