DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. 



TEACHING. 



During the year 1909-10, instruction was given in the various courses 

 in this department to the following number of students : 



istse- 2d se- 

 mester, mester. 



Course No. 31 86 58 



Course No. 32 ....... . . 34 



Course No. 33 i 



Course No. 34 17 



Course No. 35 . . 3 



Course No. 36 21 16 



Course No. 37 3 5 



Course No. 38 9 



Course No. 39 . . 32 



Winter Course, Feeds and Feeding 218 



Winter Course, Breeds and Breeding 97 



INVESTIGATION. 



During the past year, the various hues of investigation have been con- 

 tinued and some progress has been made in the study of the relation of 

 food standards to milk production. This investigation will be continued 

 during the coming winter. Cooperative experiments also were under- 

 taken, bearing on the cause of apoplexy occurring in western lambs being 

 fed for market. A bulletin covering the latter investigations is now in 

 press. 



EXTENSION. 



Members of the staff of this department have taken part in farmers' 

 institutes and other forms of extension lectures to the number of about 

 twenty. The department contributed to the exhibit of the College at 

 the State Fair and has had representatives at about one half dozen county 

 and town fairs, either as judges of live-stock, lecturers, or demonstrators 

 in connection with exhibits. A large part of the extension work of this 

 department takes the form of the supervision of the records of pure-bred 

 cows being tested by their owners for admission to the advanced regis- 

 tration in the Herd Books of the various breeds. This work requires the 



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