142 STATE BOAKD OF AGEICULTURE. 



Cotswold, pure, — 



1 ram - — 9 lbs. 4 oz. 



South Down, pure, — 



2 rams average 6 "13 *' 



23 ewes average - 5 " 8 15-23" 



Average of all South Downs 5 "10 7-25 " 



Tlie grade sheep sheared as follows : 



11 South Down grades average 5 "15 9-11 " 



23 Cotswold grades average. - - 8 "12 12-23 " 



33 Merino grades average 8 " 3 61-66" 



Total 115 sheep average 7 " 9 6-23" 



The cattle barn account is charged with tlie hay, cornstalks, straw, and turn- 

 ips fed during the year, also with the grain fed to the stock. 

 The account is this : 



Ds. Ck. 



To produce consumed $1,229 41 



labor performed iu drawing and preparing feed 373 46 



By amount charged to stock :.. $1,602 87 



81,602 87 $1,602 87 



The turnips were buried in Field No. 3, and the cornstalks stacked in the 

 same field. The labor of drawing them from this field to the cattle barn was 

 charged to the cattle barn account, and then charged forward to the stock 

 account. 



The piggery account for the year stands thus : 



Dk. Cr. 



To stock as per inventory Dec. 1, 1875 $495 00 



labor in care - 154 55 



feed consumed 325 43 



50 pigs purchased, @ $5.00 250 00 



1 boar 20 00 



By stock on hand Sept. 30, 1876, (inventory) $612 50 



cash receipts of breeding hogs sold 129 50 



fat hogs sold, (48 @ $5.75 per cwt.) net 613 00 



Balance 110 02 



$1,355 00 $1,355 00 



There remains to be i^aid a bill of $80.00 from the Boarding Hall for swill, 

 which has not yet been presented. If presented it would liave reduced the pro- 

 fit to $30.02. 



There was an exijeriment iu feeding pigs as follows. Fifty pure Essex pigs 

 were purchased Dec. 1st, 1875, and kept in good thrifty growing condition till 

 September 5th, 1876, when they were started to fatten by giving all the soft 

 corn they could eat, together with cooked potatoes and mill-feed mixed. On 

 September 26th, forty-eight were sold as per account, netting $613,00. The 

 account of the keeping of these pigs and the result by sale is as follows : 



