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(c) More Instructors. At the present time the Department is 

 not doing the research and extension work that it should. The 

 members of the teaching force are so occupied with the teaching 

 at the college that it is impossible for them to get much time either 

 for extension work away from Ithaca or for experimental work at 

 the Department. We need more instructors on the Department 

 staff so that all of the members can have time both for extension 

 work and for research. No teacher should be so confined to his 

 teaching that he cannot do some research. 



(d) Man for Cozv Testing Work. — One of the chief reasons 

 why the dairymen are not making more money from their herds 

 is because of the inferior quality of the cows they are keeping. 

 They do not know the production or relative value of their indi- 

 vidual cows. The dairy departments in some other states are 

 pushing cow testing work with remarkable results, and our De- 

 partment should take the lead in it in New York State. We could 

 do no better work for the dairymen than to have one member of 

 our Department devoting his entire time to the formation of cow- 

 testing associations and the general oversight of this work about 

 the State. 



(e) More cipparatus and machinery. — In order to keep abreast 

 with the recent improvements in dairy machinery, our Department 

 should have additional money for this purpose. We are keeping 

 up our equipment of small machinery from our appropriations 

 for running expenses, and through loans from the supply houses, but 

 there are certain more expensive pieces of apparatus which the 

 manufacturers cannot afford to loan us, and which we cannot afford 

 to buy. For example, we need a cream ripener which costs approxi- 

 mately $450. For such equipment as this we need a special appro- 

 priation. 



V. CHANGES IN THE STAFF. 



But two changes in our staff have taken place during the year. 

 On April ist, Mr. Allan Ferguson resigned his position as assistant 

 in order to go into commercial work. Mr. L. B. Cook, who gradu- 

 ated from our college last June, has been appointed to take his place. 



Miss Minnie Jenkins, assistant in dairy bacteriology, has received 

 an appointment as Assistant Bacteriologist in the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. She therefore 

 tendered her resignation to take effect September 7th. The vacancy 

 caused by her resignation has not yet been filled. 



W. A. STOCKING, Jr., 



Professor of Dairy Industry. 



