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diameter respectively and thirty feet high Per cow, there is 

 about ten square feet of glass and 750 cubic feet of air space. 



The old stable has been remodelled and a cement floor put 

 in. The part intended for horses is made to hold eleven, and 

 that for cows contains four large calf pens, two box stalls for 

 cows and one bull pen. 



A dairy, twenty by twenty-eight feet, has just been com- 

 pleted, and is equipped to turn out either butter or fancy cheese. 



Horses. 



These have been kept, so far, only to carry on the farm 

 work, nothing having been done in horse breeding, which, 

 however, will be given attention from now on, with the object 

 of producing animals suitable for farm use. 



Sheep. 



For a number of years a fair-sized flock of Dorset Horned 

 sheep has been maintained on the Experimental Farm. The 

 flock is a good one, although it has not been bred for shOw 

 purposes, the breed is well suited to the climate and gives 

 little or no trouble with disease or the ailments peculiar to the 

 race. They are noted for their fecundity and frequently pro- 

 duce twins, vhich they nourish well. 



Swine. 



The swine on the Farm have been kept chiefly for the 

 supply of pure-bred stock to people in the out-lying districts 

 of the Province, rather than for experimental feeding purposes. 

 The demand for young stock has been very grieat, much exceed- 

 ing the supply. Two breeds are kept, the Improved Yorkshire 

 and the Berkshire. 



As the by-products of the dairy herd increase, this branch 

 of live stock work will be entered into more extensively, greater 

 attention being paid to breeding and experimental feeding work 

 and to other problems connected with the industry. 



Pasture and soiling work in this connection is being com- 

 menced and a new and more up-to-date piggery is contemplated. 



Poultry. 



About two acres of land, part of which is well shaded with 

 a nut plantation, has been permanently fenced with six-foot 

 wire netting, with one strand of plain wire on top. In this 

 enclosure, three poultry houses of different styles have been 

 built. Each of these is twenty by fourteen feet and represents 



