Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-04

times he has had to send as far as
Kentucky for stock ram. but has
many times bought good eve In
lamb and in q number has been
| fortunate in obtaining what he de-
| sired--a ram lamb, for future flock
header.
It is with much interest that /
/ read of new fiocks of sheep being
/ founded on the Maine farms and de-
plore the fact that there are not
| more of them. At the same time
+, wonder how many of these men
have experience in the business or
| have thought of the necessity of en-
ploying an experienced shepherd.
Hay and water will do much toward
the upkeep of q flock, but there is
need of watchful care. the evidence
| Of health in the animals and more
or less knowledge Of some of the
! simpler remedies.
1 The yearling bull, Sea Prince
Sybil Eclipse 246,43 recently bought
| by N. D. Keith of Pennington Is by
! SYPHILIS Sea Prince, son of Sybirs
f, Gamboge and Is out Of Gamboge
Kate I'd by Knights Artistic Lad,
and next dam, Gamboge's Kate by
Gamboge Oxford Lad. This young
bull was bred by Folly Farm Sims
bury, Conn, the home of Blondes
Cunning Mouse, grand champion at
| the recent National Dairy Show as
| well as on other important oc-
| casions.
We saw SYPHILIS Sea Prince and he
| is a large impressive looking bull
y, h fret ft.ct -f
Eastern States Exposition and first
and junior champion at New York
and Maryland State Fairs. first prize
senior yearling at Connecticut State
Fair and National Dairy Show
(1923) and first prize aged bull.
senior and grand champion at Con-
necticut State Fair 1925. This
young bull on the dams side has
lot of Eminent blood which is - no
means passe and he is improving a
lot in his new home.
Mr.. Keith has a good sized herd of
registered Jerseys and had a bull of
the Gamboge strain in rs mind and
thinks he is going to be lifted with
this one.
New Sharon is "gittia' real ex-
cited over Jersey cattle and es-
pecially over those with ,he papers.
Matters have been leading up to this
for quite a long time since, perhaps
at the time when John -iason sold
out a lot of pure bredS to l.. G.
Traitor of Skowhegan asst before
Mr.. T. assumed the supe-intendency
of Ayredale Farm at b gor. They
haven't forgotten that sail yet.
The recent attracticl for the
New Sharon people has been Perley
Farm at Vassalboro and the plain
Mary" stock, Messrs. F'r1nk Russell
and Arthur Perkins having purchased
several head of Mr.. F. B. Perley,
proprietor of Periey Farm.
We notice in the recent issue of a
local paper that Perley 4. Withee of
Madison is selling quite a large
number of pure bred Jerseys and
| have wondered if this means a total
dispersion of the herd which has
| been one of those most prominent in
| Somerset county, has been well up
| in production records and won well
at county fairs.
| The county of Somerset is much
! stronger in Guernseys than in Jer-
seys according to the best knowledge
of the writers and he infers that by
far the greater proportion of milk
sold in Skowhegan is that produced
| by Guernsey cows. Not only that
but lot of them are registered
| GuernSeys. P. w. Merry has several
| in his milking herd that have the
| Papers and Malbon Bros. and | think
| Maurice Malbons is separate
herd.
Just when the Guernseys began to
function in Somerset county l am
not certain but would say that it
was some thirty years ago when
| George z. Foster of North Cornville
began with them and 1 think his
wonderful success as a breeder and
sales man has had much to do with
making the Guernseys the popular
dairy COW in Somerset.
Mr.. Foster began as a young man
by buying farm, the one on which
| he now lives and with about $1,000.
he bought a few registered Guern-
seys and by natural increase brought
the numbers up to Is head which
was at the time the largest herd of
pure bred Guernseys in the state,
In the meantime he had outgrown
the capacity of the home farm and
! had purchased the one on the north
and also the one on the south, the
| whole now known far and wide as
| EimlaWn Farm and its the best of
land suitable for crops of any sort
or kind and bearing a fine quality
of the king of all Maine productions.
| hay.
Mr.. Foster has sent bulls to the
! West by the carload, he has sold
foundation herds to many all over
the state and also to individuals by
ones, by twos and by threes. The
story of the success of George E
/ roster reads almost like a romance
and the best thing about it, it is true
in every fact.
There are many other good herds
OF GuernSeys besides these owned
by men who have had the nerve to
pay good prices for herd Sires who
have an idea OF what real Guernsey
type is and are ambitious not only
10 nave real production but also cat
tie OF the sort that can win in the
show ring. 1t is fact l think
somerset could put on one of the
best Guernsey shows in the state
with cattle inside the county limits.
Not alone are there good Guern-
seys but there are some fine Hol-
stems one of the best herds of the
breed being that of Bin w. Page
who has bought of Fred f. Field,
president of the Brockton fair. in
the matter of herd sires and l think
also the same is true of females. I
nave frequently admired the cattle
OF Mr.. Pages herd as shown at the
SkoWhegan fair. where he has fire.
quently exhibited.
1t is very evident that there will
nave to be something done in the
matter of getting judges for the
fairs. We have had criticism of the
way piacings have been made in