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ers, was held at tho college dairy. This was attended by nearly forty 

 people, thirty being butter makers or creainoi-y insjteetors. Besides the 

 regularly employed instructors ol' the depardncnl, IM-ofess:)r Bouska of 

 Chicago, 111., was secured for the week and gave valuable assistance. The 

 eight weeks' course in butter making is too long and too elementary to 

 properly provide for the busy creamery man of experience. It is there- 

 fore planned to make this Conference and Six-day School a permanent 

 annual feature. 



During the summer of 1915 the dairy barn was remodelled, and the 

 stable underwent much needed rearrangement and repair. The large 

 wooden silo which stood in the way of the extension of the stable was 

 removed, and two vitrified tile block silos were constructed at the west 

 end of the front portion of the barn. A new cement-block house for 

 weighing, straining and cooling the milk is among the improvements. 



Early in January of the present year a full equipment of milking ma- 

 chines was installed in the barn and the entire dairy herd has since been 

 satisfactorily milked by the use of machinerv. 



In the fall of 1914 the responsibility for purchasing the milk supplies 

 for the Student Boarding Clubs, and of properly ]>asteurizing the same, 

 was placed upon the Dairy department. A new milk route was estab- 

 lished, and the former route reorganized and extended. During the past 

 two years the production of milk along these routes has been increased, 

 and we have for the first time had sufficient su])plies of raw material to 

 properly care for the laboratory exercises in the several courses in dairy 

 manufactures, and provide the degree of elasticity so necessary in the 

 milk supplies for the Boarding Clubs. 



Two ncAv men were added to the department force at the beginning of 

 the college year. Mr. J. E. Burnett assumed the care of the details per- 

 taining to the verification of all Advanced Registration records. Mr. A. 

 C. Lytle has been assisting Mr. F. T. Biddell in the field investigations 

 regarding the cost of milk production. Since March 1, 191G, Mr. Lytle 

 has been stationed at Webberville, and ISIr. Riddell at Howell. 



Throughout the entire year in all that has been attempted we have 

 been most faithfully and ably assisted by the entire corps of instructors, 

 and credit to them our full measure of appreciation for service and loy- 

 alty. The list of the instructors is: C. E. Newlander, H. E. Dennison, 

 F. T. Bidden, W. D. Meltzer, F. W. Small, Alison Ransford, J. E. Bur- 

 nett and A. C. Lytle. 



For continued and deserving service Mr. Newlander and Mr. Denni- 

 son have been raised to the rank of Assistant Professor. 



We are sorry to lose the faithful services of Mr. Small who has for the 

 past two years had charge of the work in market milk. 



Respectfully submitted, 



A. C. ANDERSON, 

 Professor of Dairy Husbandry. 



East Lansing, Michigan, June P.O, 1916. 



