PISCATAQUIS COUNTY AG. SOCIETY. 



Live Stock. 



W. "W. Harris received the first premiutu for the best " busi- 

 ness horse." He was raised in Vermont, is of the Messenger 

 blood, a very fast walker, and six years old. 



Ellis Robinson took the first premiums on the following stock, 

 all of which he raised himself: A stock cow, seven years old; 

 a milch cow, seven years old, and a three year old heifer. The 

 cows are half Durham, and the heifer three-fourths Durham. 

 He " keeps them on straw with two quarts of meal during the 

 last month before calving, and in a dry and warm stable." 



Dairy Produce. 



W. G. Jewett has a dairy of four cows from which he makes 

 one hundred and fifty pounds of butter each in a season. 

 Keeps them on straw and coarse fodder during the first half of 

 the winter, and on hay alone during the remainder of the win- 

 ter. Prefers highland pasture for milch cows. Churns the 

 cream at the temperature of the dairy. Eeceived the second 

 premium on September butter. 



B. F. Eobinson received the second premium on June butter. 

 He has a dairy of six cows, and they average one pound of but- 

 ter per day each. Churns the cream alone, packs and covers 

 it with salt. 



Ellis Robinson's dairy consists of five cows, from Avhich he 

 averages two and one-half pounds of cheese per cow per day. 

 In the winter he feeds them on straw. (Does he give them no 

 hay or provender ?) He considers the white clover or honey- 

 suckle the best grass for cows in milk. The milk is made 



