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capacity of the dairy stable being 54. This means the maintenance of 

 approximately an equal number of young animals to replenish the herd 

 as the older animals drop out. With this number we are able to keep a 

 very good breeding herd of each of the five leading breeds of dairy cattle 

 — Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire, and Dairy Shorthorns. 



The sheep comprise a breeding flock of Rambouillets, Dorsets, and 

 Shropshires, representing the leading types of wool and mutton sheep. 

 It is aimed to maintain each flock at about 25 breeding ewes. In addition, 

 we have an " early lamb flock," which at present comprises individuals 

 of several breeds and of mixed breeding. From this flock the ten earliest 

 ewes produced each year are retained for breeding purposes, in order to 

 establish a uniformly earlier-producing strain. 



Our facilities for keeping swine are very limited and it has been 

 possible to keep representatives of only a single breed ; but in this breed 

 we have been successful in maintaining a leading position, starting from a 

 single pair of animals about ten years ago from which has been developed 

 a herd of firsi;-grade quality. In this time we not only have maintained 

 the quality of the individuals, but also have maintained, if not actually in- 

 creased, the prolificacy. 



The horses on the farm are kept primarily for labor, but we have 

 established a breeding stud and, although we have had our stallion for two 

 years only, we have had one very good crop of colts. 



In addition to these permanent herds and flocks, for illustrative material 

 and for experimental work it is intended to purchase each year, in the 

 future, a carload of steers, a carload of lambs, and a carload of green 

 horses, these to be kept during the winter and to be disposed of in the 

 spring when they have served their purpose for experiment and in- 

 struction, 



inventory of general live-stock 



I present herewith catalog of the animals in the Department of Animal 

 Husbandry, with approximate inventory values (September 30, 1912) : 



Horses 



1 Hackney stallion 16 work horses of various grades 



2 Percheron stallions 3 driving horses 

 6 pure-bred Percheron mares I 3-year-old colt 



3 pure-bred Percheron yearling colts 2 2-year-old colts 



1 purc-l:)red Percheron suckling colt 4 yearling colts 

 16 2-year grade colts I team mules 



2 yearling grade colts 



Approximate inventory value, $16,600 



