LIHTl^R 01' TRAXSMITTAL 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Office of Kxi'eri.mext Stations, 

 Washington, D. C, February 5, 1906. 

 Sir: I have the honor to sulMuit and to recommend for pubHcation 

 as Bulletin 166 of tliis Office, a Course of Instruction in Cheese Mak- 

 ing for Movable Schools of Agriculture, prej^ared by L. L. Van Slyke, 

 chemist of the New York State Agricultural P^xperiment Station. 

 The intent of the projected series of courses of wliich this is the first is, 

 as explained by the Farmers' Institute Specialist of this Office, to give 

 more extended and specific instruction in agriculture outside of regu- 

 larly organized schools than is now being given in the farmers' insti- 

 tutes of the country. The value of such instruction has been clearly 

 demonstrated in many foreign countries and there seems to be a real 

 and groNving need for it in the United States, especially in those States 

 where farmers' institutes have been longest in operation. 



The subject of cheese making has been reduced to relatively satis- 

 factory pedagogical form, and it is therefore hoped that the course 

 herewith submitted will serve to indicate what may be done in the 

 preparation of similar courses in other subjects, many of which will 

 doubtless have a ^^^der application in this kind of instruction. 

 Respectfully, 



A. C. True, 



Director, 

 Hon. James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



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