GUAM AGEICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 13 



26 healthy carabao, not mcluded m the number noted above, were 

 taken during the midday hours on June 15, 1907, in the municipality 

 of Mabalacat, Pampanga Province. These animals were all in 

 normal health, and the only exertion to which they had been sub- 

 jected was a walk to the most central point of the barrio, which in 

 many cases did not exceed a quarter of a mUe. The day was mtensely 

 hot, and no shelter of any kind was provided the animals, and their 

 temperatures averaged 104.7° F. This mability of carabao to with- 

 stand heat renders them less satisfactory work animals than cattle 

 when employed at labor which the latter has sufficient strength to 

 perform. For heavy draft work in the mud the carabao has no 

 equal. 



In Guam the carabao is used as a draft anunal, for its milk, and for 

 beef. Some of the best millv-producmg mdividuals yield as much 

 milk as the best native cows, and the mUk of the carabao is consider- 

 ably richer in butter fat than that of the cow. Weights and measure- 

 ments of a few of these animals have been taken at the station, and 

 these appear ia the table on opposite page. 



NATIVE PONIES. 



Aside from animals belonging to the naval government and the 

 shipment of Morgan horses recently imported from the mainland of 

 the United States by this station for breedmg })urposes, the horses 

 of the island consist ahnost entirely of small, inferior ponies of 

 Phihppine introduction or their offspring. The average pony of 

 Guam is considerably below the average Philippine pony in quality. 

 This is due to the purchase of cheap grades of animals in the Phihji- 

 pines by those who have made im})ortations and to the general lack 

 of knowledge on the part of the Chamorro horse owner concerning 

 the management of this class of animals. The average weight of these 

 ponies is less than 600 pounds. Horses are scarce and in great 

 demand. Excluding Government stock, the number of horses on 

 the island does not exceed 50, and the demand for them is indicated 

 by the fact that these lean, worthless-looking specimens (PL II, fig. 

 2) find a ready sale at prices ranging from SI 50 to $200, United States 

 currency, each. A great deal of pride is taken by the native in the 

 ownership of a horse. These ponies are used almost exclusively 

 for carriage purposes. 



NATIVE HOGS. 



The hog was one of the earhest domestic animals on the island. 

 Magellan is said to have found wild hogs on the island at the time of 

 the discoveryin 1521 and they are stiU found in the forest-covered area 

 of the northern portion of the island. The domesticated hogs are of 

 two distinct types. One of these types includes animals of a long- 



