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Department of Dairy Industry, 



increased number of courses offered, — eleven courses being offered 

 this year as compared with seven for 1906-07, and four for 1905-06. 

 The following table is of interest as showing the growth of the teaching 



work in the past four years : 



1904-05 1905-06 



Course 40. Alilk, Composition and Tests 



Course 41. Creamery [Methods 25 53 



Course 42. Cheese-making 25 17 



Course 43. Market Milk and Milk Inspection. 15 29 



Course 44. Laboratory Bacteriology 19 9 



Course 45. Seminar 



Course 46. Investigations 



Course 47. Dairy Mechanics 



Course 48. Fancy Cheese-making 



Course 49. Dairy Bacteriology 



Course 50. Advanced Testing Laboratory 



Course 5 



84 108 183 368 



(b) Winter-courses. — The number of men in the winter dairy course 

 was practically the same as for the previous year, ninety-five men 

 being enrolled. This class showed a higher average ability than was 

 shown by some previous classes. The men exhibited a marked in- 

 terest in their work, and made a good record both as to work and to 

 attendance. A few students were taken sick with scarlet ' fever, a 

 number also had measles, and were therefore obliged to give up the 

 work. Aside from these but few men left the course before the close. 

 All of the men who made good records received satisfactory positions 

 soon after the close of the course ; in fact, the call for competent men 

 for positions in factories and milk stations was larger than the number, 

 of men qualified for the work. There seems to be a growing belief 

 among commercial men that men having some special training in the 

 handling of milk and its products are more satisfactory than those 

 who have not had such training. 



In addition to the ninety-five men taking the regular winter dairy 

 course, forty-eight men took the work in farm dairying, making a total 

 of one hundred and forty-three men who received instruction in dairjf 

 work during the winter course. 



Research Work. 



The ray)']d growth in the number of students taking work in this 

 department hns fully kept pace with the increase in the teaching staff. 



