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diseases, stimulation and toxicity, particularly with manganese and 

 copper, and currant diseases. 



Work in dairying included the modification of the Babcock test 

 for cream and the relation of temperature to the accuracy of the read- 

 ings in this test, efficiency of cream separators, studies of the city 

 milk supply, the manufacture of Camembert cheese, moisture in 

 Cheddar cheese, effect of starter on yield of cheese, metallic flavors 

 in milk, tests of herds supplying milk to the dairy department, 

 moisture in butter, and leucocytes in milk. 



In animal husbandry, attention was given to the study of causes 

 and prevention of losses in winter feeding of lambs, tests of feed- 

 ing standards for dairy cows, skim-milk feeding of calves, tests of 

 substitutes for oats for horses, breeding of heavier types of work 

 horses, and production of hot-house lambs. 



The work in the poultry department included breeding with a 

 view to production of an American breed of white-egg producers, 

 fattening with high and low protein rations, texture of rations for 

 fattening poultry, and preservation of eggs in water glass, lime- 

 water, and soap solutions. In cooperation with the chemical de- 

 partment a study was made of mineral matter in rations for hens, 

 and in cooperation with the veterinary college investigations were 

 conducted on bacillar}^ white diarrhea. 



As in previous years a large amount of demonstration and exten- 

 sion work was done under State funds and research men were not 

 called upon to any great extent to take part in it. 



The following publications were received from this station dur- 

 ing the year: Bulletins 277, The Principles of Brooding — The Im- 

 proved New York State Gasoline-heated Colony-house Brooding 

 System ; 278, Classification of the Peony ; 279, Variation and Corre- 

 lation in Timothy; 280, Pastures in New York; 281, Butter Mois- 

 ture Tests; 282, Seven Methods of Feeding Young Chickens; 283, 

 Control of Insect Pests and Plant Diseases; 284, Labor-saving Poul- 

 try Appliances; 285, The Cause of "Apoplexy" in Winter-fed 

 Lambs; 286, The Snow-white Linden Moth; 287, Correlation of 

 Characters in Corn; 288, Spray Injury Induced by Lime-sulphur 

 Preparations; 289, Lime Sulphur as a Summer Spray; 290, Studies 

 of the Fungicidal Value of Lime-sulphur Preparations; 291, The 

 Apple Red Bugs; 292, CaulifloAver and Brussels Sprouts on Long 

 Island; 293, The Black Eot Disease of Grapes; 294, A Heretofore 

 Unnoted Benefit from the Growth of Legumes; 295, An Agricul- 

 tural Survey — Townships of Ithaca, Dryden, Danby, and Lansing, 

 Tompkins County, New York; 296, Spraying for Black Rot of the 

 Grape in a Dry Season; 298, The Packing of Apples in Boxes; 299, 

 The Elimination of Tubercle Bacilli from Infected Cattle, and the 

 Control of Bovine Tuberculosis and Infected Milk ; Circulars 7, The 



