KENNEBEC CO. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



This Society expended in premiums and expenses the present 

 year, $499.' 



^ Live Stock. 



The reports on live stock generally notice the large number 

 and fine quality of animals exhibited, and the committee seem 

 to have been not a little embarrassed in deciding upon those 

 most worthy of premium, and give* the impression strongly that 

 old Kennebec still sustains her enviable position of being in the 

 foremost rank in this most important department. But the 

 reports and statements give little information on points of gen- 

 ei'al interest to the agricultural commuuit}-. What is found is 

 here appended. 



Messrs. J. & E, Wardsworth of East Livermorc, received 

 first and second premiums on full blood Durham bulls. 



J. H. Underwood of Fayette, obtained premium on full blood 

 Hereford bull. He also exhibited other animals of this breed, - 

 and says of them that they combine better tlian others the 

 qualities of work, beef and milk and are more easily kept. The 

 committee speak highly of a bull calf of his, a cross of Durham 

 and Hereford ; also of an animal of the same cross, shown by 

 Willougliby Clough of Mount Vernon. 



Greenleaf Davis says of a cow, a cross of Ayrshire and Dur- 

 ham : '* we weighed the milk for seven days in June, and found 

 she gave two hundred and twenty-five pounds. Her milk for 

 seven days in May, made ten pounds of butter." He prefers 

 this cross for stock and milk. 



Alden Lane prefers grade Durhams, as possessing the best 

 combination of good qualities; showed a cow which averaged 

 twelve quarts per day, during the season, and gave twenty 

 quarts during June and July. The breed not stated. 



Daniel Craio: showed a heifer which had a calf in March which 



