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Cattle 



i6 Holstein cows 2 Ayrshire calves 



3 Holstein bulls 4 Shorthorn cows 

 12 Holstein heifers I Shorthorn bull 



4 Holstein calves i Shorthorn heifer 

 14 Jersey cows 2 Shorthorn calves 



1 Jersey bull 2 Guernsey cows 



2 Jersey heifers i Guernsey bull 



3 Jersey calves 5 Guernsey heifers 

 6 Ayrshire cows i Guernsey calf 



1 Ayrshire bull 9 grade cows 



Total, 90; approximate inventory value, $12,000 



Sheep 



6 Dorset sheep 46 mixed and grade sheep in early lamb 

 10 Rambouillet sheep flock 



10 Shropshire sheep About 75 lambs 



32 pure-bred Shropshire ewes 



Approximate inventory value, $1,400 



Swine 



2 Cheshire boars 16 Cheshire young sows 



7 Cheshire brood sows 40 suckling pigs 



Approximate inventory value, $570 



MEANING OF THE POULTRY LIVE-STOCK 



The poultry flocks are kept primarily for instruction and for investi- 

 gation. These purposes are considered to be of about equal importance. 

 The flocks provide the laboratory materials with which the faculty and 

 students work ; they enable the teacher to apply the principles that are 

 taught and the students to acquire knowledge and skill by contact. The 

 flocks are also of value in providing instruction to the large number of 

 persons who visit the college plant and the poultry farm. 



The annual sales from the flocks amount to six or seven thousand 

 dollars. This business provides an opportunity for students to become 

 familiar with the commercial side of poultry farming, from both the 

 productive and administrative sides. 



Four to five thousand chicks are reared annually. The stock is reared 

 on the poultry farm at Forest Home. The farm comprises 81 acres. 

 It is devoted largely to clover, alfalfa, mangels, and grain crops, in 

 order to demonstrate a desirable system of rotation for a poultry farm 

 with the object of illustrating, by actual results, that the most profitable 

 and the only permanent poultry husbandry must be based on the keeping 

 of poultry as a part of a regular system of farm cropping, maintaining the 

 fertility and reducing the cost of maintenance. 



