20 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



As the herd is now increasing so rapidly that it has 

 become impossible to accommodate the stock properly in the 

 present buildings, an auction sale will be held at short in- 

 tervals in future years, the next being in early December. 

 People requiring cattle will do well to come down before- 

 hand and inspect the stock, which will be on view for a 

 month before the sale. 



The feeding of the herd has as usual monopolized the 

 output of the major portion of the cultivated area on the 

 farm, and if the breeding up of the Montgomery herd in the 

 five groups already established is to be properly done (and 

 this means retaining all stock bred from these groups for 

 thorough trial), while the collection of data regarding the 

 transmission of characters in the cross-bred herd will also 

 require careful selection and observation among a large 

 number of animals, the arable portion of the farm will have 

 to be entirely devoted to the work of producing fodder and 

 grain for the herd, and the question of finding the land for 

 growing crops such as jute, wheat and sugarcane, etc., on 

 a field scale will have to be considered. 



Disease. There was an outbreak of foot-and-mouth 

 disease in 1917 which lasted some three months and resulted 

 in 5 deaths, four of which were suckling calves of under two 

 months old, while a number of young stock were consider- 

 ably put back by the attack. There was one case of black- 

 quarter in the beginning of May, 1918, which proved fatal, 

 and in consequence all the calves in the herd — some 175 in 

 number — were inoculated against this disease. 



Inoculation. It is proposed to have all the yourig stock 

 inoculated against rinderpest by the simultaneous method. 

 This will enable the cross-bred bull calves sold at auction to 

 go out into the district without risk and should greatly 

 enhance their usefulness, while the ever present risk of hav- 

 ing years of work on the cross-bred herd wiped out in one 

 attack will be removed. 



The capital value of the herd based on current prices 

 now stands at Us. 42,000, and the following figures give the 



