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soaps, the chemistry of cider vinegar, the proportion of animal food 

 in the ration for ducklings, relations of casein and paracasein to bases 

 and acids and their application to Cheddar cheese, sulphur washes 

 for orchard treatment, proteids of butter in relation to mottled butter, 

 winter injury to fruit trees, and the quality of commercial cultures 

 for legumes. The station has also prei:)ared as a part of its annual 

 rej>ort 'J'he Apples of New York, in '2 volumes, wliich will contain 

 more than ;'>0() plates, half of which will be colored. Of work practi- 

 cally completed, or on which definite progress has been made but not 

 yet published, mention should be made of the successful eradication 

 of tuberculosis from the station herd and replacing diseased animals 

 by healthy calves raised from both diseased and healthy mothers, ex- 

 periments relating to the use of coarse fodders for poultry, and to the 

 sources of protein for poultry, a study of galactase in cheese ripening, 

 studies on the influence of fertilizers on the quality of fruits, studies 

 on potato blight, fall spraying with sulphur washes, and fertilizer 

 experiments in orchards with wood ashes, and with different fertil- 

 izers. 



But little strictly new work has been undertaken, but crops have 

 been grown preparatory to a comparative feeding of steers on a ma<xi- 

 mum of home-grown and minimum of purchased feeds, and on rations 

 with larger proportion of feed from purchased materials. The 

 chemist's work on koumys is also new, as is also a study of mites by 

 the entomologist. The station continues to cooperate with the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry of this Department on experiments with trucking 

 crops, the storage of apples, and the breeding of sugar-beet seed. 

 The bacteriologist has been making bacteriological examinations of 

 nitrocultures in conjunction with the station bacteriologists in New 

 Jersey, Delaware, and Michigan. 



The cooperative and demonstration work with farmers has included 

 treatment of asparagus rust in 1 locality, treatment of raspberry cane 

 blight in 1, potato spraying experiments in 15, exixn-iments with 

 grape stocks in 2, the economy of dwarf orchards in 3, systems of 

 orchard management in 2, growth of foreign varieties of chestnuts in 

 1, exi)erinients with forage crops in 3, a test of suli)hur washes in 

 15, and the control of the codling moth in 3. 



A new $3,000 building for the storage of grain and machinery has 

 been completed, making nuich more convenient the handling and 

 maintenance in proper condition of the extensive outfit of farm and 

 garden imi)lements, and the storage of crops. New separators and a 

 combined churn and butterworker also add to the convenience of the 

 dairyman, while an 18-horsepower gas engine as a source of power 

 for many purposes and a mill outfit greatly facilitate the preparation 

 of feeds. Many changes in the stall have occurred. For the lirst 

 time in many years the head of a department has resigned, the horti- 



