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hills, and wc must go back to the dual purpose stock. We 

 made mention of the dual purpose stock at last year's winter 

 meeting. 



Mr. J. S. Anderson (of Shclburne). I have listened 

 with a great deal of interest to what Professor Sanborn has 

 said. He has given us many truths, and there is a great deal 

 to the subject he has brought before us. It is one which 

 should interest every one of us. I go back to the day, many 

 years ago, when these hills were tilled with good cattle. We 

 had at that time only one breed of cattle, the Shorthorn. I 

 can tell you something of the way wc managed in those days. 

 We had the dual })ur})()se cow ; we had some of the best of 

 that cattle that could be found. We had heifers that pro- 

 duced in a single year over 500 pounds of butter, besides sup- 

 porting a family of live persons with milk, butter and cream. 

 AVe thought we would see what we could do in the line of 

 feeding up stock for the New York market. We commenced 

 with a pair of heifers and we fed them imtil they were four 

 years old. These heifers weighed in New York 4,(S00 pounds, 

 and they were even flesh all over, no lumps, and Avhen you 

 came to cut that meat you would find it well marbled. Tiiere 

 was some stock that wc purchased thafT made not only good 

 beef but good milkers. 1 have followed this business for 

 over fifty 3^ears, and I know Avhat I am talking about. He 

 tells you about the growth from one year to another. I will 

 corroborate this. Wc bought a pair of calves at eleven 

 months old that weighed 1,500 pounds; we paid $200 for 

 them. That pair of calves as yearlings weighed 2,640 

 pounds. They were fed on little roots and pastured in the 

 summer. The next fall as two-year olds they weighed 3,400 

 pounds ; as three-year olds, 4,300 pounds ; the next fall as 

 four-year olds, 5,000 pounds. This is not all history; we 

 have the same cattle to-day, the dual purpose cow. I would 

 like to show Professor Sanborn stock that we raise in old 

 Shclburne. I have seen the day a\ hen we piirchased 40 pair, 

 averaging 3,800 pounds to the pair, and mostly three to 

 four year olds. Last spring I turned a pair into pasture ; 

 they weighed 2,650 pounds, and when I took them down to 

 the fair they weighed 3,210 pounds. That is what they 



