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supplied had the legislature seen fit to make the purchase of 

 additional lands asked for two years ago. 



The experiments made under the supervision of the Com- 

 mittee on Stock, consisting of Messrs. Brooks and Newell, have 

 been conducted with extreme care and labor, and are of great 

 interest and value. This committee submitted the following 



REPORT: 



The committee on stock report the following tabular statements' 

 showing the cost, kind and weight of food consumed by the cows, 

 and the quantity of milk given by each daily, for three hundred and 

 sixty days. Twenty-fout cows have been kept on the farm during 

 this time ; one has suckled a calf, the remaining twenty- three have 

 been kept in milk as much of the year as possible. The milk afforded 

 by these cows in three hundred and sixty days of trial, was 89,643yVo' 

 pounds, a quantity- less, probably, than one-eighth of a quart daily, 

 to each inmate and officer of the State Reform School. This very 

 limited allowance is much less than should be furnished, and much 

 less than might be advantageously consumed ; but even this quantity 

 cannot bs furnished from the number of cows the farm will summer, 

 and the committee, in order to keep the twenty-four cows, and afford 

 the school as much milk as possible, have been obliged to rent pas- 

 turing to the amount of seventy-eight dollars. This is not as it 

 should be, and the committee regret that the purchase of land recom- 

 mended by the Board two years ago, Avas not consummated. If this 

 purchase had been made at that time, we could now keep fifty or 

 seventy-five cows, and furnish the inmates of the Reform School 

 with a supply of milk much more in accordance with the wants of 

 this class of persons than we now can. 



The favorable season has afforded us a good bay and corn crop, and 

 the fodder now in the barn is equal to the wintering of six or seven 

 more cows than we now have, and the committee would have pur- 

 chased them had the appropriation of funds by the legislature been 

 equal to this outlay and the necessary expenses of the farm, but 

 unfortunately, it was not, and your committee lament that an institu- 

 tion so creditable to the philanthropy of the State should be made to 

 suffer by the parsimony of legislation. 



There are now on the farm eighty-five swine of all ages, valued at 

 six hundred and sixty-two dollars ; and we have sold during the 

 season forty-six hogs and thirty-seven pigs and shoats. The commit-' 

 tee, in April last, finding the swill accumulating in larger quantities 



