88 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



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The cheese investigations, conducted in cooperation with this de- 

 partment, were steadily pursued on the same basis as heretofore. 

 Special attention was given the past season to the Roquefort type 

 of cheese. In the study of silage fermentation, special consideration 

 was given to silage bacteria and to temperature changes taking place 

 in the silo, especially in the interior of the mass of silage. 



Among the work carried on by the horticultural department under 

 the Hatch and other funds was the closing out of a nine-year period of 

 spraying experiments with cucumber's and melons. This department 

 published a systematic description of New England trees, in the form 

 of Bulletin 69 of the station, paid for from State funds. The exten- 

 sion work in horticulture, carried on as heretofore for the college, 

 included demonstrations of methods of orchard management in dif- 

 ferent sections of the State. 



In dairy husbandry, as in the previous year, attention was given 

 to the cost of raising and maintaining dairy cattle; and a feeding 

 experiment with high and low protein rations in its second year was 

 continued with 10 cows. The effect of these rations on vigor, produc- 

 tiveness, and fertility was studied. The ice-cream studies, under 

 way last year, were also continued. 



Preparations were made for testing, on a rather large scale, the 

 comparative egg-laying capacity of different breeds of chickens. 

 The State Game Commission began experiments in raising quail 

 at the college. The birds were kept under close observation, espe- 

 cially with reference to their egg production, and the problems of 

 hatching the eggs and keeping the birds free from disease received 

 considerable attention. 



The following publications of the station were received during 

 the year: Bulletins 64, Connecticut Weather Review; 65, Butter 

 Making on the Farm; 66, Apple Growing in New England — IV, 

 Orchard Management; 67, Water Glass and Preservative for Eggs; 

 and 68, Bacillary White Diarrhea of Young Chicks. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year Avas as follows : 



United. States appropriation, Hatch Act $7,500,00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 7,500.00 



State appropriation, including balance from previous 



year 2, 435. 83 



Miscellaneous, including balance from previous year 754. 89 



Total 18, 190. 72 



The affairs of the Storrs station are in good condition, and many of 

 its lines of work seem to be actively prosecuted and quite scientific 

 and fundamental in character. 



