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texture and flavor can be made. This system is being tried out on 

 a commercial scale, and may afford considerable advantage to the 

 cheese maker. 



Soft cheese. — The cooperative soft-cheese investigations have been 

 continued at the Storrs (Conn.) Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 Work in this field has been carried on sufficiently to indicate the 

 possibility of making Camembert cheese commercially in this country ; 

 however, no manufacturer apparently has been entirely successful 

 as yet. A factory demonstration has been arranged for. A good 

 cheese of the Roquefort type has been made experimentally from 

 cow's milk. AVe hope to be able to try this out on a commercial scale. 

 Chemical work has been devoted to a study of the flavoring substances 

 of soft cheese. Work is in progress on a m/)nograph on the genus 

 Aspergillvs, corresponding to the revision of the Penicillium already 

 published. 



PLANS FOE THE COMING YEAB. 



In addition to continuing the studies above reported, it is planned 

 to undertake a new problem pertaining to the utilization, in the arts 

 and as food, of by-products from the creamery and cheese factory, 

 many of which now go to waste or are utilized in an inefficient way. 

 Considerable work has been done on this problem incidentally by 

 those who are studying various other problems, but it is desired to 

 place at least one man on this work as a main problem of research. 



A considerable share of the division's laboratory work is being done 

 at certain State experiment stations with which we are cooperating. 

 It is believed that economy and efficiency would be promoted by con- 

 centrating this work, or such portions of it as are to be continued in 

 the future, in the main laboratory at Washington, since better facili- 

 ties are now available there. Steps have therefore been takwi to move 

 this work to Washington during the coming year, in which case, how- 

 ever, due consideration will be given to the institutions with which we 

 are cooperating, and a fair and just dissolution of the cooperative ar- 

 rangements will be made. It may be that some of these institutions 

 will continue some of the work themselves, in which case arrange- 

 ments can be made so as to prevent direct duplication. 



DAIRY DIVISION FAR^I, BELTSVILLE, MD. 



In March, 1912, 185.7 acres of the farm at Beltsville, Md., which 

 had been purchased by the bureau in the latter part of the preceding 

 year, was assigned to the Dairy Division for its use. Mr. R. R. 

 Welch was placed in charge as superintendent. The farm was in 

 very rough condition when it became the property of the bureau, and 

 there remained much work to be done in the way of clearing, ditch- 

 ing, etc. 



During the spring of 1011 about 15 acres were thoroughly tiled 

 and some 6-inch mains were laid to remove the surplus water from 

 some of the remaining wet spots and valleys, the idea being to con- 

 nect laterals with these mains from time to time, as funds would 

 permit, until the place is thoroughly drained. During the spring 

 and early summer of 1011 the entire farm, with the exception of 4 

 or 5 acres of stumpy land, was plowed and planted. About G2 acres 

 was planted to corn; the renuiinder of the place was sown to cow- 



