BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTEY. 



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HORSE BREEDING. 



COLORADO WORK. 



The carriage-horse breeding experiments in cooperation with the 

 Colorado Experiment Station have, with one exception, progressed 

 satisfactorily during the past year. The annual culling of inferior 

 individuals is showang its results, and the foals show better quality 

 each year. In August, 1910, the board of survey condemned 8 

 animals, which were sold at public auction. One mare died during 

 the year; one was destroyed on account of injuries; one foal died, 

 and one was destroyed on account of injuries. The following state- 

 ment shows the animals in the stud on June 30, 1911: 



A^\s. 



Aged 



■4-year-olds. 

 ;>-year-olds. 

 ■J-year-olds. 

 Yearlings. . 

 Weaalings. 



Total 



Stallions. 



2 

 1 

 3 

 5 

 11 

 12 



34 



Mares. 



25 

 5 

 3 

 4 

 6 

 5 



Total 



27 



6 



6 



9 



17 



17 



82 



IOWA WORK. 



In the experiment in the breeding of gray draft horses in coopera- 

 tion Nsith the Iowa Experiment Station, 5 out of 8 mares bred in 

 1910 dropped foals in 1911, and 4 of these foals are living. Two of 

 these foals are by the Shire stallion Dapple Tom out of Clydesdale 

 mares; the others are by the Clydesdale stallion Kuroki out of Shire 

 mares. Three of the foals are gray in color and one is bay. One 

 mare was purchased during the year and added to the stud. All 

 the mares are worked regularly on the farm. 



VERMONT WORK. 



The Morgan horse-breeding work at Middlebury, Vt., was enlarged 

 during the year by the purchase of the stud of the Willowmoor 

 Farms at Redmond, Wash. There were 10 mares in the lot, 7 of 

 them of breeding age; of the 7, 6 promise to be excellent brood mares 

 and have been bred to General Gates. The young stock were, with 

 one exception, by the Morgan stallion Troubadour, which attracted 

 so much attention at the live-stock show of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacilic 

 Exposition in 1909. One of the 5 young stallions has been cas- 

 trated. Five of the mares were bred in Vermont, and are good 

 representatives of the old-fashioned Morgan lines, which have proved 

 so valuable in mating with General Gates. The mare Maggie Gates 

 was bought in October, 1910. 



The board of survey condemned 4 horses in 1910, which were sold 

 at auction, and 3 condemned weanlings were sold by the Vermont 

 Experiment Station. 



The 5-year-old stallion Red Oak has been leased to the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College, and, although sent to Amherst some- 

 what late in the season, has received about 20 mares of very good 

 quality. The conditions under which the stallion was leased are of 



