BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 101 



aided in forming 102 organizations with 1,538 members, gave 691 

 demonstrations attended by 17,710 persons, visited 1,916 farms, and 

 were instrumental in placing SOU purebred rams. 



MILK-GOAT INVESTIGATIONS. 



The experiment begun in 1911 in grading up from native and grade 

 Toggenburg and Saanen does with purebred Swiss bucks was con- 

 tinued. The flock comprises 26 does and 8 kids of one-half, three- 

 fourths, seven-eighths, and fifteen-sixteenths blood. The average 

 daily milk yield per doe in 1919 was 3.92 pounds, an increase of 2.42 

 pounds over the yield of the 10 selected native does which formed the 

 foundation stock of the herd. The highest milk yield for an indi- 

 vidual doe in one day is 8.6 pounds. For 1919 the flock showed an 

 average of 3.7 per cent butterfat. 



HORSE AND MULE INVESTIGATIONS. 



BREEDING AMERICAN UTILITY HORSES. 



In the work for the development of a breed of active utility horses 

 for general farm and ranch w^ork, conducted in cooperation with the 

 State of Wyoming at Buffalo, Wyo., there were in the stud at the 

 close of the fiscal year 13 stallions, 24 mares, 4 j^earling colts, 2 3^ear- 

 ling fillies, and 9 foals, a total of 52 animals. Seven of the stallions 

 were leased for the 1920 breeding season. 



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BREEDING MORGAN HORSES. 



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The breeding of Morgan horses at the Government Morgan Horse 

 Farm, Middlebury, Vt., continues to progress very satisfactorily. A 

 v'erv uniform lot of foals are being sired bv Troubadour of WilloAv- 

 moor, the stallion now at the head of the stud. At the end of the 

 fiscal year there were on the farm 6 mature stallions, 7 young stal- 

 lions. 33 mares and fillies, 7 geldings, and 14 foals, a total of 67 

 animals. Three of the stallions were leased for the 1920 breeding 

 season. The young animals have grown well and promise to develop 

 into high-class animals. 



In May the stallion Donlyn and the mare Jewel and her colt by 

 Trouljadour of Willowmoor were sold for shipment to Japan. 



BREEDING HORSES ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS. 



During the 1919 breeding season 735 mares were bred to the 12 

 stallions (2 Standardbred. 2 Saddle, and 8 Percheron) maintained 

 undoi- the jH-oject for breeding horses on Indian reservations, with 

 headquarters at Eagle l^utte, S. Dak. Up to June 30 in the 1920 

 breeding season 202 mares were bred to 9 stallions. Because of lack 

 of funds it was necessary to withdraw from this cooperative work 

 with the Indian Office at the close of the fiscal 3'ear. 



BREEDING HORSES FOR MILITARY PURPOSES. 



The plan of breeding horses for military purposes was chauged 

 this year bv eliminating the free-service feature and the agreements 



