X38 WALDO SOCIETY. 



beautiful figure, and easily matclied. The cows are good. I 

 think the Hereford breed will yield the greatest amount of beef 

 for the cost, of any stock known. I calculate to let my calves 

 suck or drink. 1 prefer letting them drink till they are about 

 ten or twelve weeks old. After that I feed them on grass and 

 hay. The oxen average, in girth, seven feet and four inches. 

 The cows I consider very good, both for milk and stock. The 

 two best of them gave, in June and July, forty pounds of milk 

 per day. I seldom give any provender to my stock." 



A partial statement of crop grown by Robert Patterson of 

 Belfast, is found, to wit : three hundred and twenty-three bush- 

 els of ears of corn and twenty-one and one-half bushels of beans 

 from two acres of land ; thirty loads of manure applied, no par- 

 ticulars are given as to culture, character or previous condition 

 of soil, or other items of interest. 



From the report of committee on grain crops, it is seen that 

 no premium was given for the above, the first premium on corn 

 being awarded to David Norton (whose statement is not found 

 returned) and the committee say that no other applicants made 

 the required statements. 



