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are the hogs and pigs strict!}^ clean, but there is little or 

 none of the odor that usually pertains to a hogpen and 

 that renders them so objectionable. 



The new hennery just being completed is admirable in 

 design and contains all the modern appliances for the suc- 

 cessful production of eggs and poultry for which there is 

 ample demand in the Hospital. 



STOCK RAISING. 



Statistics prove that at least one half of the milch cows 

 kept in New England and probably throughout the coun- 

 try do not pay for their keeping, requiring a large part of 

 the profit of the other half to make up the deficit, which 

 of course lessens immensely the profit of the dairy in this 

 country. All of this may be changed by more careful 

 breeding and slaughtering at once all found not to yield 

 profitable returns. 



The committee are much pleased with the plan adopted 

 on this farm of raising the heifer calves from the best cows, 

 and by the use of a thoroughbred bull. And they feel 

 that it cannot be too strongly urged that success depends 

 more upon the bull being selected from the best milking 

 strain, as it is unquestionable that the sire is more potent 

 to transmit milking qualities than the dam. This fact is 

 often overlooked in breeding stock for dairy purposes. 



There is always more or less danger of introducing tu- 

 berculosis or other infectious diseases by the purchase of 

 stock from sources that may be infected. Dr. Page is of 

 the opinion that grade or full blood Holsteins are less 

 subject to tuberculosis than other breeds. By raising 

 calves from stock not infected, that danger which is quite 

 considerable is avoided. 



The young heifers that have been raised are certainly 

 very promising, but until they come into milk, their milk- 

 ing qualities cannot be assured ; hence the importance 

 when a bull has proved a getter of good milking stock, he 

 should be kept and made much of. Balls are usually 



