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Every opportunity has been given returning students throughout the 

 year by repeating courses for the convenience of men who have found it 

 necessary to take these required courses in order to complete their col- 

 legiate work at the desired time. While these classes have been small, 

 we must especially commend the excellent spirit which the students have 

 shown and express our appreciation of the rather high degree of accom- 

 plishment which they have attained under reconstruction conditions. 



INVESTIGATION. 



During the year further investigations of Mr. F. T. Riddell in the 

 cost of market milk production have been completed in the Howell and 

 Webberville districts and similar work has been taken up in Macomb, and 

 Wayne and Monroe Counties. The cost work of Mr. Riddell has been 

 of inestimable value in giving stability to milk prices and in creating a 

 better economic atmosphere for the dairy farmer. 



In February, 1919, Mr. Stanley J. Brownell was released from military 

 service and immediately resumed work with the department as Investi- 

 gator in Market Milk Distribution. He has gotten well started on his 

 project. 



DAIRY EXTENSION. 



Throughout the year INIr. J. A. Waldron has continued to serve as 

 Extension Specialist in Dairy Products and Mr. O. T. Goodwin as Ex- 

 tension Specialist in Dairy Manufactures. Both have rendered very valu- 

 able service. A detailed statement of their activities will, of necessity, 

 appear in the report of the Director of Extension. 



ADVANCED REGISTRY TESTING. 



The work of Advanced Registry testing continued throughout the war 

 with only a slight decrease. The work of Prof. Burnett in securing suit- 

 able help in caring for these tests was rendered doubly hard on account of 

 the labor shortage, but by dint of extraordinary effort all the requests for 

 supervisors were taken care of. 



Requests for the more unusual class of extension service for the dairj^ 

 industrj^ have been frequent during the year. Scarceh^ a week has passed 

 in which the services of the writer have not been requisitioned to take 

 care of these less routine conditions. Among these have been a number of 

 conferences in different cities at which information- has been given to 

 city commissioners, boards of commerce, citizens' committees, milk pro- 

 ducers and distributors, and others relative to the problems of market 

 milk production and distribution. 



During the year the writer has continued to serve as a member of the 

 Detroit Milk Commission. 



In closing this report we must express our most sincere appreciation 

 for the degree of cooperation from the members of the department and 

 all others with whom we are associated in collegiate work. 



Respectfullv submitted, 



A. C. ANDERSON, 

 Professor of Dairy Husbandry. 

 East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1919. 



