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Best one year old, Thomas Minot of Brunswick, for Devon, bred 

 bj I. Wentworth. 



Nathaniel Sno^v of Brunswick, for a Jersey, sired by " Czar," 

 from an imported cow. Mr. Snow, in his statement, well remarks : 

 " On the pastures of this county we should not regard beef cattle 

 merely, but bestow more attention to raising cows for milking quali- 

 ties." And also that "a Jersey cow now owned by John Foster 

 Williams of Roxbury, Mass., has given milk of which four quarts 

 made a pound of butter." 



Cows. Best milch cow, premium to John Graves for a grade 

 Durham, which gave 20 quarts per day in June and 12 quarts in 

 September. 



Second premium, for a Native cow, giving milk all the year, and 

 averaging over 8 quarts per day. 



Isaac Mallett, premium for Devon cow. 



L. W. Tedford of Topsham, do. 



S. F. Dike of Bath, premium for Native cow, of which he says : 



"The cow dropped her calf January 16th, 1859. Weighed her 

 milk— Feb. 8th, 33 lbs.; Feb. 9th, 81 lbs.; Feb. 10th, 3.5 lbs.; Feb. 

 lltb, 36 lbs. Continued about one week on the above amount. 

 At the end of week, 32 lbs. for two or three days, till Feb. 21st, 

 when it was 30 lbs. The next week it fell one or two pounds per 

 day, but did not reach so low as 10 quarts per day during the win- 

 ter. During the spring it was about 16 (Quarts per day ; sometimes 

 a little short. In June it increased again." 



Mr. Dike also took premium on a Jersey heifer two years old. 

 Messrs. Mallett, Tedford and Jordan took premiums on Devon 

 heifers. 



Sheep. Best buck, premium to Given Jameson, for a Cotswold, 

 imported from England by Capt. Lombard of Webster. Weight of 

 fleece this year, thirteen pounds. 



The other bucks receiving premiums are called English breed. 



For best flock of Sheep, to John Alexander. 



S^inne. Premium for best breeding sow and litter of pigs, to W. 

 B. Trufant of West Bath— Suifolk and Newbury White. 

 Second, to Daniel Fulton, for grade Sufiblks. 



