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Show 372 REPORTS OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS The f ~ u c i ~alil sun der good.r?pair and a neat wire fence hasbeen ut around thegraveyard. The horses-loin namber-aremgo&doondition and weigh from 1 l<o14125pouods,although old s e is beginning toshowon someof them. Thereare 25 mi l chc~ws and~botht~est menum. hero? 7ear l in~asn d oalves. There are nevermore than 14 or 16 of the cows giving milk a t the same time. The breeding is eo managed that s good m ply of milkers iaslwaysat hand. Im11 here make special mention of a three- uarter grad* ~oysteiuh eifer that ealveqat the a e of 72 months., In April, her first month gtercalomg, she gave 1.040 pounds of m~lki.n M%T 1,1,19$ pounds m Jpne she gave 07Spounds; mnkmg a total for the quarter of 3,212 ponnds, or aboutuo gsl1ons'in ?,nety-qna days. In th; dary spar of scales hm s near the milk oan and the milk from every cow is weighed and& record kept. so at the end of* month or a qusrtb there is noguesswork as to the amount of reduction but haw i t exact in pounds and ounoes. This method also enables us to better juBge the reai worthpf cow. Durin the firat quqrter the dairy produced 2 018 allons in the ~econdq uarter 3.260, m the third quarfer 4,m, and in the fourth quarter 4,ld gdon&s&; ing s total for the year of 13 378 gallons. From the herd was aisb slaughtered 4 530 pounds of netbeef for the school. Ei ht calves have keen added to the herd this year sad ?dt a slngle death occurred, elther by acewfent or disease. L ~ syte ar the cattle were graued ?ut?~deth e farm on greapewood but aft?= suffering a loss of two worth oP stock we condud?d it a ~ ndo t pa . and have mnoe kei t them mnclosed. The oropsgrown on the farm m la5 wereashlcwa: H8y 361 tons: sugar beets,% tons; pnmz. kins 1.m wmter squasheg 300. ZCl doasn ears sweet c o d Bm ounds green pease SW poun s we& bertha, 1W ounds onl;ns,h gal~onscucumberp iokle~;besi$es whatwere nsed iresh on the t s b i e ; a n d ~ l t e ~ ~ o s t s e ~ ~ r ~ 1 1C1Uc kOUkmo fb RR9 , t t g e thhhWi thhy~ onloadof summersquashes were ehoppedup and fed to the cattle. The table was also suppl~llew~i th an sbund&n*nooef rad! Bees.-The apiary has not been a success this year. The "cold snap" that robbed us of the frnit bloom at the same time robbed us of the stimulus to breed-ing so necessary to bees, and the honey crop of our section, which should be recorded in tons, is measured by pounds. Irrigation.-This matter, so long a sonrce of annoyance, has been as near free from all irreeularities this vear as it can ever be so Ions as ditches can be broken by oceasiona~stormsw, hic6 will persist i n coming and-in missinp schednle rerru-whit<, III-I!. Thrlr prsficiency has bee" rurlr, aud so popnlnr have they hwome in C.>lorad#, and litah partic~~larlryh,a t now ono of rhe leading band instrnctor~o f thi9 wc-ti011 has propojzd to insrrnct the band for u year and make his tuition fee.< unt of |