20 ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. OF THE 
DIVISION OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. 
The policy established a year ago, of requiring daily 
reports, has proved to be a valuable method of regulating the 
work of this division and will be continued. The feed records 
of individual beef animals and of litters of pigs kept during 
the last year, have furnished much information on the cost of 
production, and will be further perfected and extended until 
the record of every animal grown on the farm is obtained 
in detail. 
The beef herd has been built up by the purchase of a few 
breeding animals, and a few pure bred calves have been raised, 
though an outbreak of hemorrhagic septicemia last spring 
caused the death of a number of calves. The flock of sheep 
has been strengthened by the purchase of typical specimens 
of the breeds not represented heretofore, and a number of 
home bred sheep have been considered good enough to keep 
for breeding purposes. 
The new piggery has proven well adapted to the growth of 
young pigs, and has enabled us to raise a large number of 
pigs with very little loss from disease. 
Sales of stock have been good throughout the year, and 
farmers obtaining it have expressed themselves as well pleased 
with the quality of the animals obtained. The sales for the 
year exceed the purchases by $393.98. There is also an 
increase in value of the live stock inventory of $2,095.00, 
making a total increase in the value of the live stock of 
$2,488.98. 
The experiments in forage crops for sheep and swine have 
been continued through the year. Only mature sheep were 
used for pasture work, as it was believed that more reliable 
data could thus be secured. A number of plots of tame grass 
have been seeded for comparison with annual crops—as sheep 
pasture—and the fields have been partly re-fenced with a view 
to furnishing more economical methods of pasturage. The 
yards adjoining the piggery have encroached somewhat upon 
the land formerly used for producing winter forage, and small 
fields for swine pasture have farther reduced the land avail- 

