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herd. In trials conducted with the milking machine it was found 

 that the quality of milk depends primarily upon care in use of the 

 machine. Immersion of the milking parts of the machine in a 10 

 per cent solution of common salt between milkings was found more 

 efficacious than steaming. The germ content was found to be deter- 

 mined largely by the efficiency of the air filters. In a bulletin pub- 

 lished during the year the profits secured from the best and poorest 

 individuals of the station herd ar6 pointed out and the necessity of 

 retaining only the best cows for the highest profits is discussed. 



The cooperative work of the station includes a study of nitrogen- 

 assimilating organisms in cooperation with the Central Experimental 

 Farm anj:! MacDonald College of Canada and with the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry of this department, potato-spraying experiments and 

 potato-fertilizer tests in cooperation with farmers, experiments on 

 the control of currant diseases, cooperation with fruit growers in the 

 use of homemade concentrated lime-sulphur solutions, and coopera- 

 tion with the Bureau of Entomology of this department in the con- 

 trol of the Hessian fly. 



The extension work of the station consisted mainly in two weeks' 

 work each by heads of departments and six assistants at farmers' 

 institutes. 



The following publications were received from this station during 

 the year : Bulletins 316, Inspection of Feeding Stuffs (with popular 

 edition) ; 317. Milking Machines: Effect of Method of Handling on 

 the Germ Content of Milk (with popular edition) ; 318, Report of 

 Analyses of Samples of Fertilizers Collected by the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture During 1900; 319, A Chemical Study of the Lime- 

 sulphur Wash (with popular edition) ; 320, Concentrated Lime- 

 sulphur Mixtures (with popular edition) ; 321, Director's Report, 

 1909; 322, The Individual Animal as the Unit in Profitable Dairying 

 (with popular edition) ; Technical Bulletins 10, The Volumetric 

 Method for the Determination of Casein in Milk; 11, The Bacterial 

 Soft Rots of Certain Vegetables; and 12, Crown Rot, Arsenical 

 Poisoning, and Winter Injury. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal j^ear was as fol- 

 lows : 



United States appropriation, Hatcli Act $1, 500. 00 



United States appropriation, Adams Act 1,300.00 



State appropriation 98,243.85 



Balance from previous year 3,085.98 



Total 104, 129. 8S 



A report of the receipts and expenditures for the United States 

 funds has been rendered in accordance with the schedules prescribed 

 by this department and has been approved. 



