50 An 1 MAI. Ihsn.WDRN'. 



With the growing numl)crs in courses in Animal I Insljanciry, the 

 need of additions to the teaching force is more and more felt, and 

 an additional instructor is necessary if the work is to be maintained 

 at its present grade, to say nothing of development. The courses 

 offered in Animal Husbandry should be amplified and extended so 

 as to give opportunity not only for a larger amount of work in this 

 subject, but for specialization in various directions. Aside from 

 the teaching force, additional equipment in the way of class room 

 material and particularly in the. line of additional live stock must 

 also be provided in the near future, and [his calls for additional land, 

 and particularly for new and modern barns and stables. With the 

 larger number of students coming to us from a wide range of terri- 

 tory, it becomes imperative to have at hand a much wider variety 

 of live stock for illustrative and educational purposes than we have 

 ever had. We should at least double the number of breeds now rep- 

 resented in our cattle, sheep and swine, before the equipment can 

 be considered at all adequate, and the number of representatives of 

 each breed should also be largely increased. An adecjuate equipment 

 in live stock would call for the maintenance of at least 150 cattle, 

 an equal number of sheep, and from 30 to 50 breeding swine. The 

 College should also have good representative specimens of the vari- 

 ous types of horse.>, not only for the sake of performing the neces- 

 sary labor upon the farm, but for class room use with the students. 

 It is hardly necessary to mention that this branch of the live stock 

 has been entirely neglected for a good many years, and not only is 

 the present stock of horses entirely useless, from an instructional 

 standpoint, but i> entirely inadequate to perform the necessary labor 

 upon the farm. The College could profitably use at least 20 horses. 



II. EXTENSION W^ORK. 



While a few lectures have been given before farmers' meetings, 

 Ihe greater part of the effort along the line of agricultural extension 

 has been in the supervision of the records of i)ure bred cattle for 

 owners of several of the leading dairy breeds. This work. l)egin- 

 ning in i8!)4 when o'.ilv two records were su])ervised, has steadily 

 grown in amount and in appreciation of its usefulness l)y owners and 

 breeders. During the year, records of cows belonging to five breeds, 

 namely, Holstein, Jersey. Guernsey, Brown Swiss and Ayrshire, 

 were supervised by representatives of the College. The amount of 

 this work is indicated by the following tabulation ; 



