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There were dropped oii the fair grounds at Indianapolis two calves, a male 

 .iiid a female, in this noted berd. The calves w^ere both sired by Carman 

 oUCO. and out of splendid dams. The ditliculty of shipping calves so young 

 to the next fair where the stock was entered. Trenton. N. J. — enabled me 

 to pui'chase these animals at a price unheard of for such stock. I took 

 both home and raised them by hand. 



I have sold two heifers and eight bulls and have now a herd of three 

 cows, two heifers to be fresh in the spring, and two bull calves, in all 

 eleven now in the herd, making, with those sold, seventeen head in ten 

 years. 



Mr. Oliver Mills has, in partnership with me. Solomon of Homestead 

 8499, one of the best Guernsey bulls in America, to which I am now breed- 

 ing my cows and heifers. Solomon has only been shown at fairs six 

 times, and for these he has six blue ribbons to show, being first twice at 

 the Indiana State Fair, and once each at New York, Ohio. Kansas and 

 Ilhnois State fairs. Oliver Mills and his brother, Amos Mills, have some 

 twenty-five to thirty heifers by registered Guernsey bulls and good Jersey 

 mothers. There are a few full-bloods at or near Kokomo and North Ver- 

 non, and in some of the southwestern counties there are a number oi 

 grades. Black Bros, have a few. I suppose there are not in the State, 

 all told, more than fifty registered Guernseys. 



They are to me the most satisfactory dairy cattle I have ever han- 

 dled. I have tried Devons, Holsteins and Jerseys, buf the q-uiet disposi- 

 tion of the Guernseys, free from nervousness, their hardiness and their 

 ability at the churn, recommend them to dairymen wherever they have 

 a trial. Dairymen in other States have often been known to sell their 

 Jerseys and l)uy Guernseys, but the man who would part with his Guern- 

 seys and substitute in their place Jerseys has never been heard of. They 

 are to me the grandest of the dairy breeds, good size, hardy constitutions, 

 persistent milkers and standing alone in producing the richest colored 

 milk, crenm and butter of any cow in the world. 



The (Mul) then adjourned, to meet next year at the same time and 

 place. 



