

BULLETIN 274 



REPORT OF PROGRESS ON ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 

 INVESTIGATION IN 191 7. 1 



John W. Gowen. 



In conformity with previous reports, 2 this brief abstract 

 leals with the progress which has been made during the past 

 'ear in the animal husbandry investigations carried on by the 

 vlaine Agricultural Experiment Station. As will be noted the 

 vork has been energetically pushed toward the solution of prob- 

 ems already outlined in previous reports and to the gathering 

 >f new information for the solution of other problems of im- 

 portance to us as dairymen. The material advance that has 

 )een made in the solution of these problems may best be dealt 

 vith by presenting the information under separate headings. 



Analyses of Milk Records 



The existing records of the milk production of the various 

 )reeds as given in the Advanced Registries have further been 

 nade use of in the investigations of the past year. The cor- 

 -ection factors for the rise of milk and fat production with age 

 lave first of all been separately determined for another of the 



Tapers from the Biological Laboratory of the Maine Agricultural 

 experiment Station, No. 124. 



This report of progress during the year 1917 of the work on animal 

 )reeding and related lines (exclusive of the work with poultry) carried 

 >n in the Biological Laboratory of the Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, was presented by Director Chas. D. Woods as the report of the 

 lommittee on Breeding of the Maine Dairymen's Association, at the 

 neeting held in Portland on Nov. 18, 1918. 



2 Pearl, R., Report of Progress on Animal Husbandry Investigations 

 n 1916, Maine Agri. Expt. Sta., Annual Report pp. 121-144, 1916. 



Pearl, R., Report on Animal Husbandry Investigation in 1915, Maine 

 \gri. Expt. Sta. Misc. Publ., 519, 1-27, 1915. 



