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Poultry. 



Two breeds of poultry have been kept, the Barred Rocks and White Leg- 

 horns. No special experimental work has been done with them. In the 

 spring of each year all eggs suitable for hatching have been sent out to farmers. 

 In the fall and winter the best cockerels have been sold to poultry raisers 

 of the Upper Peninsula for breeding purposes. 



It is planned to expand the poultry work somewhat here at this Station 

 in order to have more eggs and cockerels from high producing birds to sell 

 to farmers. Farm poultry flocks are very profitable and more work should 

 be done to encourage the keeping of high, winter laying strains. 



Horses. 



In 1919, two draft teams and one general purpose horse were kept for f<arm 

 work. In 1920 another team was purchased. These horses with a little 

 extra hired horse labor during the rush of the spring's work have done the 

 work at the Station. After completing the farm work in the fall of 1920 two 

 of the teams were sold to lumbermen in order to reduce winter feeding ex- 

 penses. They will be replaced the followang spring. 



Hogs. 



The Station is keeping but one breed of hogs, Duroc Jerseys. They are 

 one of the breeds best adapted to northern Michigan conditions. The herd 

 consists of one aged boar, three yearling brood sows, and some shoats that 

 are being fattened. 



Several young boars and sows have been sold to farmers for breeding pur- 

 poses. This stock is all especially well bred and it is hoped that the farmers 

 wall take advantage of the opportunity of getting a high class of breeding 

 stock, rather than keeping the cull stock that so many of them are now using. 



FARM CROPS. 



The field crops of the Upper Peninsula are very diversified. This is the 

 usual condition found in anj^ comparatively new territory when its farming 

 citizenship has developed from many widely varying parts of the country, 

 and from people previously engaged in many commercial pursuits widely 

 separated from actual farming conditions. 



It is the function of the Farm Crops Section to perform basic crops ex- 

 perimental work and to serve as a clearing house for field crop information. 

 Many practices in operation on the various farms of the Peninsula are emi- 

 nently successful, while others pay little returns or are unprofitable. The 

 Station is conducting many experiments in an attempt to establish the better 

 crops varieties and cultural practices for the various sections of the territory. 

 In addition, it is rendering a service in actual seed distribution of adapted 

 varieties from its own fields. 



Grain Experiments. 



Experimental grain work has been conducted along two main lines during 

 the past two seasons. First, the testing of commercial and pedigreed va- 



