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State Fair. This work keeps the College in close touch with the live 

 stock breeders of the State and furnishes the department an opportunity 

 to extend its teachings of correct type and form, which mmst be associated 

 with effii-ient production in animals, to a larger number of fanners than 

 can be reached in any other way. 



LIVE STOCK EQUIPMENT. 



The following represents the live-stock equipment at present : 



Beef Cattle 



Herefords 27 



Aberdeen Angus 22 



Shorthorn 26 



Total 75 



Sheep 



Sou.thdown 24 



Shropshire 43 



Hampshire 52 



Oxford 44 



Cotswold 16 



Rambouillet 50 



Dorsets 10 



Total 239 



Sicine 



Duroc Jersey 45 



Poland China 34 



Chester White 34 



Berkshire 37 



Tamworth 39 



Yorkshire 32 



Hampshire 10 



Total 231 



The above numbers include the spring calves, lambs and pigs, many of 

 which are now on experimental feeding test and will be disposed of early 

 this fall. 



Practically no funds have been available for the purchase of better live 

 stock for several years. The Hereford and Shorthorn cattle at present are 

 not of as high a standard of excellence as should be maintained by the 

 College, and better representatives of these breeds should be obtained as 

 soon as possible. 



The Aberdeen Angus herd was very materially strengthened when Mr. 

 W. E, Scripps of Detroit presented the College with an Aberdeen Angus 

 herd bull ''Plumb Square and Level," a superior individual sired by the 

 noted bull, Edgar of Dalmeny, Avhich Mr. Scripps imported from Scotland 

 for use on his Wildwood Farm at Orion, Michigan. 



Plumb Square and Level was : 



