12 Report of the President. 



X. Department of Dairy Industry. — The number of students enrolled 

 in the various courses offered by this department more than doubled 

 during the past year, the registration of regular students aggregating 

 368 as against 183 the preceding year. Instruction was also given to 

 143 additional students in the short winter courses, and in addition 

 to this the extension work carried on by this department included a 

 heavy correspondence with various residents of the State who were 

 seeking information in regard to some phase of dairy work, addresses 

 before farmers' institutes and granges, and the systematic testing of 

 over 200 individual cows in 22 different herds for the purpose of 

 demonstrating methods by which the farmer may discover which are 

 his unprofitable cows, how to keep a record of individual animals, and 

 how he may produce more milk. Research work has also been carried 

 on along several lines, including experiments in the manufacture of 

 Camembert cheese, and a careful scientific study of the fermented 

 milk drinks now on the market in this country. Experiments in the 

 manufacture of cheddar cheese have produced some very interesting . 

 results which have been used by the State Department of Agriculture 

 as a basis for regulating the sale of this type of cheese, and con- 

 siderable work has been done on methods for market milk inspection, 

 including a practical demonstration locally which has resulted in a 

 marked improvement in the quality of the milk coming into the city 

 of Ithaca. 



XL Department of Animal Husbandry. — This department enrolled 166 

 regular students during the first term of the college year and 138 

 students during the second term, besides giving instruction to 265 

 short winter course students during the winter months. The research 

 work comprised mainly feeding experiments, (i) to determine the 

 usefulness of various artificial foods in raising calves without milk, 

 (2) on the use of roots instead of concentrated foods in the production 

 of milk, (3) on the utilization of skimmed milk in feeding pigs, (4) 

 on the possibilities of profitable beef-production in New York State, 

 (5) the economy of production of winter lambs, and, finally, a co- 

 operative experiment has been inaugurated with feeders of lambs in 

 Genesee county to determine, if possible, the causes of loss of lambs 

 by apoplexy, which is common in that vicinity. The larger part of 

 the extension work in this department is comprised in supervising 

 the records of the production of pure-bred cows belonging to various 

 herds, involving 1,265 Holstein cows and 11 Guernsey herds, 5 Jersey 

 herds and i Ayrshire herd. 



