ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY SOCIETY. IQl 



betvreen grade animals or those of mixed Mood, and thorough bred. 

 If correctly informed, at this show the same amount of premium 

 was awarded to each. Now if thorough bred animals do possess 

 certain hereditary traits which are desirable, and may be expected 

 to impart these to their progeny, why not offer larger premiums for 

 these, as they cost high, and breeders need encouragement to induce 

 them to purchase, while if they be procured, grades will be almost 

 certain to come in plenty without such encouragement? 



LIVE STOCK. 



Horses. First premium for stallion, to S. J. Smith of Lewiston. 



Second premium, to William Keen of Poland. 



First premium for stallion three years old, to David Bowe. 



Bulls. First premium for Devon bull, to A. C. Mitchell. 



Second premium, to Madison Sprague of Greene. 



Third premium, to J. S. Garcelon of Lewiston. 



Premiums were also awarded to S. Stinchfield, Ebenezer Ham, 

 J. C. Bryant, and others, for grades and natives. Mr. Stinchfield 

 showed a bull calf eight months old, grade Durham, girting 5 feet 9 

 inches ; had been on the cow all the time and had some meal. 



Farm Stock. P. B. Rackley of Greene, showed twelve head of 

 grades of Hereford and Durham, and obtained first premium. 



Milton Carville showed twelve grade Durhams, and obtained sec- 

 ond premium. 



The statements regarding the animals which have been received, 

 although they contain information useful for the judges at the show, 

 have little of interest to the public at large. From one by S. H. 

 Read, we learn that a grade Hereford cow, from a Native cow of 

 excellent milking properties, gave 28 quarts of milk in one week in 

 December, which yielded 5 pounds 7 ounces of butter. He says, 

 "with kind treatment and good keeping, gives milk up to calving; 

 with rough treatment and poor keeping will be likely to go dry four 

 or five months," thus giving a hint which many may profit by. 



Swiue. R. P. Briggs took most of the premiums on swine, for 

 grade Suffolks. 



