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IV. DAIRY INDUSTRY. 



I submit herewith my third annual report of the work of the 

 Department of Dairy Industry. This is for the year ending Sep- 

 tember 30, 1906. 



The first six months of the year were spent in the old State dairy 

 building, which had been used for dairy instruction since its erection 

 by the State in 1893. In the latter part of March the Department 

 was moved into temporary quarters to allow contractors to remodel 

 the building as the north wing of the Goldwin Smith Hall of Hu- 

 manities. At the suggestion of the president and with the generous 

 consent of the Medical College, the office of the Department was 

 temporarily located in the faculty room of Stimson Hall. The man- 

 ufacturing work was established and carried on under exceedingly 

 great difficulties, in two or three rooms of the small frame building 

 west of the barn, on Reservoir Avenue. Class rooms were used in 

 Stimson and White Halls and in the stock judging pavilion. Labo- 

 ratory work was suspended. It was confidently expected that the 

 temporary quarters would be needed only a few weeks when the 

 new dairy building would be occupied. But construction work in 

 the latter proceeded so slowly that it did not become available until 

 after the close of the year, hence the second half of the year was 

 spent in places not well adapted for our work. 



The unusual difficulties surrounding the Department and the 

 fact that the writer felt compelled to give a large amount of his time 

 to looking after the construction of the new dairy building, assisting 

 in planning details which had not been planned previously or called 

 for revision, and arranging for equipment for the building, made i1 

 impossible to undertake much new work. Most of the regular ac- 

 tivities of the Department, however, were carried forward. Thesi 

 included the follown'ng: 



I. TEACHING REGULAR AND SPECIAL STUDENTS. 



The numbers of students in the different classes and the numberf 

 in the corresponding classes of the previous year were as follows : 



1905-6. 1904-S 



Course 41 Milk and Butter making 53 25 



42 Cheese making 17 25 



43 Market Milk 29 15 



44 Advanced work 9 19 



