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sold for $10 at six weeks of age. He says : '•' I have not milked 

 lier lono- euouo-h to tell what she will make ; but she bids fair 

 to be the best milker I ever owned. In June and July she 

 gave about twenty quarts per day; since the first of May she 

 has averaged twelve quarts per day. I feed in winter with 

 hay, potatoes or oil meal. I fed the mother with oil meal in 

 addition to hay, which 1 regard good feed for cows before 

 they calve." The breed not stated. 



Mr. Craig also presented a full blood Suffolk boar for exhi- 

 bition, fourteen months old, raised by hioiself. He regards this 

 as very superior to cross with larger and coarser breeds. They 

 take fat easy, are very hearty, and their pork is fine grained 

 -and thin skinned. He feeds with potatoes boiled, skimmed 

 milk, with some meal and bran, and have a little dry corn. 



He also raised and exhibited a breeding sow, a cross of the 

 Bedford and Newbury White, sixteen months old. Tiiis breed, 

 he says, mixes well with the Suffolk. He feeds her on the waste 

 from the house, with a little meal three times a day. In the 

 winter he gives a warm pen with a dry bed of straw, and feeds 

 three times a day. Mr. Craig also presented a fat hog eigh- 

 teen months old, weighing six hundred pounds, live weight, and 

 five pigs five months old, averaging about three hundred pounds 

 each, live weight. They are all part Suffolk. The pigs were 

 taken from the sow when six weeks old, after which they were 

 fed on skimmed milk and meal three times a day, always warm. 

 The five pigs have eaten fifty-one bushels of corn meal beside 

 the skimmed milk. The corn was worth eighty-five cents per 

 bushel. 



S. N. Watson presented for exhibition, a half blood French 

 merino buck and ewe, five and one-half months old. He pre- 

 fers this breed on account of the large size of their bodies, the 

 fineness of their wool, and the great weight of their fleeces. 

 They were bred by Ephraim Cragin of New Portland. He 

 feeds on hay, with carrots, occasionally. 



"The buck which I enter for premium was sired by a full 

 blood French merino buck, from the sheepfold of John A. 

 Taiuter of Hartford, Conn,, which took the first premium at 

 the State show at Gardiner, last year, and the county show at 

 Madison. The buck which I enter was weaned in August, on 

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