418 Twenty-Second Annual Repokt of the 



The year has seen great improvement in the live-stock depart- 

 ments. The following table shows the increase of the herd : 



Gradens Jerseys Ayrshires Guernseys 

 Holstei Pure-bred Pure-bred Pure-bred 

 10 6 2 1 



9 9 11 



This table does not include one grade Shorthorn cow nor five 

 cows in the tuberculous herd. 



Besides the increase from the herd, three excellent animals have 

 been purchased. 



1. Sultana's Meridale Gambige, a two-year-old Jersey heifer, not 

 only a very fine individual but very well bred. She has given 

 birth to a male calf sired by an Island-bred male. This calf is to 

 be the future herd sire of the Jerseys at the school. 



2. Fairview Agnes Johanna, a four-year-old Plolstein from the 

 famous Dollar herd in calf to Roy Apple Korndyke, 8th. Agnes 

 has given birth to a heifer calf, which, with the record her mother 

 is making, would sell for all the dam cost. 



3. King Korndyke Sadie Vale Concordia, a son of one of the 

 finest bulls of the Holstein breed, purchased from Mr. Quentin 

 McAdams of Deansboro, who made a considerable financial sacri- 

 fice that the School might purchase the bull. This young bull, 

 which is to be the Holstein herd sire at the school, is from a cow 

 with a thirty-one-pound record, and through both his sire and dam 

 is line bred to one of the greatest cows of the breed. With this 

 animal in the herd, and barring accidents, the school will be en- 

 abled to exchange with other breeders nearby who own excellent 

 sires, and thus, for a long time, be enabled to improve the breeding 

 of the herd without purchasing a new sire. 



After three years of negotiations, the Superintendent of Ad- 

 vanced Registry of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America 

 has granted the institution the right to use the students in making 

 advanced registry tests. This feature of the work will be taken 

 up later. Reference to it is made now to state that under this 

 privilege several excellent A. R. O. records have been made. Mid- 

 land Segis heads the list with 30.005 pounds of butter in seven 

 days from 555.6 pounds of milk. 



With the breeding represented in the herd and with the pos- 

 sibility of making the A. R. O. tests a fact, the School will soon 



