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DAIRY INDUSTRY 



W. A. Stocking, Professor of Dairy Industry 



Teaching. — All the regular courses were given by the Department of 

 Dairy Industry in 1917-18, even though the staff was smaller than usual 

 due to the fact that a number of the members were engaged in war work. 



Because of the scarcity of persons trained in dairy work, the Depart- 

 ment offered a two-weeks emergency course from June 12 to June 25. The 

 purpose of the course was to train both men and women to operate the 

 Babcock test, in order that they might be available for positions in dairy 

 plants, cow-testing associations, and advanced registry work, to replace 

 more experienced men who have been called either by the draft or by 

 other lines of industry. Seventeen m.en and two women took this course. 



For a number of years the Department has handled large quantities 

 of dairy products in order to have these materials for laboratory instruction 

 purposes. Last summer, because of the war situation and the unusual 

 conditions that developed in the dairy industry, it became impossible 

 for the Department to compete with milk shipping stations and milk 

 condensaries and manufacture its milk into butter and cheese. Since 

 the Department had no equipment for making condensed or powdered 

 milk, it was obliged to turn over its milk supply to the Ithaca Condensary. 

 While the Department has handled small quantities of products during 

 the year in connection with its teaching work, it feels that its teaching 

 has been handicapped because of the loss of this work. It is hoped, 

 however, that these conditions are only temporary. 



Investigation. — The smaller registration of students during the year 

 has given the members of the teaching staff a little more time than formerly 

 for research work. Each member of the staff has conducted research 

 in his particular line of work. 



Extension. — ^At the beginning of the year G. Clayton Dutton was 

 added to the departmental staff as an extension instructor, primarily 

 in cheese work. Mr. Dutton was for many years a practical cheese maker, 

 and for a number of years he was an instructor in the State Department 

 of Agriculture and assisted in the instruction in cheese work at the College 

 during the winter course. 



During the year there has been a special demand for help in connection 

 with dairy plants owned by farmers throughout the State. W. E. Ayres, of 

 this Department, has given assistance in the preparation of plans and 

 the selection of equipment for a number of such plants. 



Special work. — Last summer the Federal Government called on all 

 the men of this Department, except the head, to do special emergency 

 work or to inspect navy butter. The Government has already called 

 on the entire staff of this Department for similar work during the coming 



