Division of Dairy Husbandry. 



I have the honor to present herewith a report of the work of 

 the dairy division of the Agricultural Experiment Station for 

 the year 1894. 



This division was practically formed July 1, 1894, by relieving 

 me of the duties of deputy director and secretary of the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station. This division feels very strongly the 

 need of an experiment station assistant who shall devote his 

 whole time to experimental work ; it can hardly be expected to 

 compare favorably with the work of the other divisions until 

 such needed assistance is supplied. 



During the year a bulletin (No. 66) has been published on 

 " Tests of Cream Separators." The work for another, on " The 

 Effect of Feeding Fat to Cows," has been completed, and work is 

 in progress for two or three more. We are continuing this 

 winter the work begun last winter, on the eflB.ciency of cream 

 separators. An investigation is also being made regarding the 

 effect of different foods on the hardness of butter fat, and consid- 

 erable data is also being gathered in regard to utilizing some of 

 the by-products of dairy manufacture, notably in saving most of 

 the fat hitherto lost in the whey, in the form of merchantable 

 butter of good quality. 



The daily and weekly records of the production of milk and 

 fat by the University herd now extend over a space of three years 

 and are being continued regularly. Before very long they will 

 furnish valuable material for a bulletin on some of the peculiari- 

 ties of milk secretion that are at present but little understood, 

 beside showing the rate of improvement in a herd of cattle bred up 



