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^[organ, formerly owned by Philo Clark of Turner, descended 

 from tlie '•' Sherman Morgan." His dam was half ilorgan and 

 Messenger. Says : " I prefer this breed to all others that havo 

 come under my observation, for closeness of build, beauty and 

 symmetry of muscles and limbs, and finally for endurance, 

 strength, speed, ease and gentleness of motion. I have fed 

 him through the winter with four quarts per day of cut carrots^, 

 with clover hay." 



"William M. Longley exhibited a cow, calf, and yearling heifer, 

 The two first full blood Durham, and the last fifteen-sixteenths 

 Durham, and one-sixteenlh Hereford. The cow was bred by 

 Mr. Haines of Hallowell, and sired by bull imported by him, 

 and out of a cow owned by Mr. Greene of Winslow. She is 

 six years old, and is a superior cow for milk ; was milked till 

 the middle of May, and dropped the calf presented with her 

 July 22d. " She gives more milk in a season than any cow I 

 ever owned." 



Jacob Elder has a cow, bought from a drove when one year 

 old. She is now six years old, and supposed to be part Dur- 

 ham. She had a calf when two years old, and has never 

 been dry. In June, he made from her milk, in fourteen 

 days, thirty-three pounds of butter. From the 24th of May to 

 the 24th of September, he made two hundred pounds of butter, 

 besides the milk and cream used in the family ; gives about an 

 average of eight quarts of milk per da}-, the year round. In 

 June gives about twenty quarts, and in July from fifteen to siX' 

 teen quarts. " I sold one of her heifers, two years old, for 

 beef, for fifty dollars." 



Jonathan Mower bred and raised a yoke of steers, which ho 

 exhibited for premium, two years old, grade Durhams. They 

 had half the milk of the cow for three months, and through tho 

 winter good hay and roots. They girt six feet and seven 

 inches. 



Crops. 

 Philo Clark sowed one acre of Oregon wheat. The soil a 

 sandy loam, fine and friable, of a yellow color, free from stone, 

 and underlaid by an open subsoil. The year previous, cora 



