184 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



REPORT OF THE DAIRY SECTION. 



Director R. S. Shaw, 

 Dear Sir: 



The investigations in the cost of milk production were continued by 

 Mr. Riddell, Mr. Kurtz and Mr. Rowland until March 1st, 1921, when this 

 work was transferred to the Department of Farm Management. 



The studies in the distribution of milk in cities has been continued and a 

 report has been completed giving the results obtained from surveys made 

 by Mr. Stanley J. Brownell in the cities of Lansing, Kalamazoo and Flint. 



One other project has been continued by Mr. J. E. Burnett which has to 

 do with a trial in raising calves hj use of self feeders. The results are very 

 encouraging and the project will be enlarged and continued during the coming 

 year. 



Respectfully submitted, 



O. E. REED, 



Dairy Husbandman. 

 East Lansing, Michigan, June 30, 1921. 



REPORT OF SECTION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



Director R. S. Shaw, 



East Lansing, Michigan. 

 Dear Sir : 



Following is a brief report of the work of the Section of Entomology for the 

 year ending June 30, 1921. 



The present year has witnessed no change in the personnel of the Section 

 of Entomology. During the latter part of the summer of 1920, the writer took 

 advantage of a leave of absence to visit the South on a collecting trip, and 

 during the period of three months absence the affairs of the section were 

 ably administered by Professor E. I. McDaniel, Research Assistant in this 

 section. 



The animal house is now nearly completed and is in constant use both 

 for the housing of animals under observation and because of the laboratory 

 facilities which it offers. The building was designed and is used wholly to 

 facilitate studies in the biology and control of parasites of food animals, 

 and in this field considerable progress has been made. 



The work on the ox-]jot is being continued this summer and quite a bit of 

 evidence has been collected and will l)c checked up later with further experi- 

 ments. 



The studies in intestinal parasites have been prosecuted with diligence 

 and many facts dealing with the microscopic organisms producing disease, and 

 also with the control of these organisms have been established. 



Dr. Chandler is at present carrying on some interesting tests in the disin- 

 fection of poultry yards for the control of gapes in poultry, and for intestinal 

 parasites. 



