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Excerpt from United States Animal Husbandry Experiment Beltsville, Maryland Recognizing the need of a near-by proving ground for conduct ing experiments in animal husbandry, the United States Depart ment of Agriculture purchased, in a 500-acre tract near Beltsville, Prince Georges County, Md., and divided it into two experiment farms, one for dairy cattle, the other for beef cattle, . Horses, sheep, goats, swine, and poultry. The latter farm was augmented in 1926 by an additional pur chase and now includes more than acres, which are being devoted to scientific and practical research in animal husbandry - the breeding, feeding, and management of domestic farm animals and poultry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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