DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 45 



QUESTIONS FOR CLASS IN BREEDS AND THEIR 



CHARACTERISTICS. 



HORSES. 



1. What country is supposed to be the native home of the horse? 

 Give reasons for such belief. 



2. Describe the best known and most important Asiatic and African 

 types of early horses. 



::. Name and classify, according to their uses, the breeds of horses 

 known at the present time. 



4. Give description, origin, characteristics and history of the Perch- 

 eron horse. 



5. Give characteristics, differences and similarities between the Eng- 

 lish Shire and the Clydesdale. 



6. From what sources did the draft horses get their size, for the most 

 part? 



7. What are the objections to the Suffolk-Punch as a draft horse? 



8. Name, describe and give characteristics of the two classes of coach 

 horses most highly prized in the United States. 



9. Explain the differences in type in the English Thoroughbred, 

 Hackney and Hunter. 



10. What was the principal source of blood in building up the Amer- 

 ican trotter? Name seven horses which were prominent in the early 

 history of the trotter, and five leading families of the present time. 



CATTLE. 



1. Name the breeds of cattle known in the United States, classify 

 them and indicate in each case the following points: 1. Color; 2. In what 

 country did they originate; 3. Size. 



2. Write as good a history of the Shorthorn cattle as you can with 

 150 words. 



3. Who is considered the founder of the Hereford breed of cattle? 

 About what time did he begin breeding, and what two strains, or fam- 

 ilies, did he originate? 



4. What breed of English cattle was most highly prized and gener- 

 ally used in New England during the early history of this country? 



5. Give origin, description, historv and characteristics of the Red 

 Polled cattle. 



6. Name the Scotch breeds of cattle, and tell the two things for which 

 all Scotch cattle are noted. 



7. Tell how the Galloway and Polled Angus resemble each other, and 

 in what points they differ. 



