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feather eating; breeding experiments continued for many years; 
the relative profits of the larger and smaller breeds; the relative 
efficiency of ground and whole grain for laying hens and chicks; 
the importance and economy of using animal food; the importance 
of mineral matter and the value of grit; and the adaptability of 
certain concentrated by-products for poultry feeding; testing the 
value of several forage plants as a food for growing pigs; relative 
value of wet and dry grain for pigs; relative efficiency of corn meal 
and corn on the cob for pigs; relative cost of growing pigs of differ- 
ent breeds; feeding experiments with pigs of different crosses; in- 
vestigations of syrup and sugarmaking, including adaptability of 
sorghums and sugar beets; chemical studies on milk and it pro- 
ducts; composition of normal milk used at cheese factories ; com- 
position of milk in relation to yield of cheese; composition of milk 
in relation to the composition of cheese; composition of milk in rela- 
tion to the quality of cheese; composition of whey and cheese; 
methods of paying for milk for cheese-making ; conditions affecting 
weight lost by cheese in curing; commercial experiments in curing 
cheese at different temperatures; conditions affecting chemical 
changes in cheese-ripening ; action of acids and bases on casein and 
paraceasein; first chemical changes in cheese; enzyms in relation to 
cheese-making and cheese-ripening ; comparative study of different 
breeds of dairy cows; comparative profits derived from selling milk, 
butter, cream and cheese; proteids of butter in relation to mottled 
butter ; composition of commercial soaps in relation to spraying; 
chemistry of home-made cider vinegar; and methods of analysis. 
INSPECTION WORK. 
In 1891 fertilizer inspection was inaugurated in New York, the 
work being placed wholly in the hands of the Experiment Station. 
In 1899 a similar inspection was established for commercial feeding 
stuffs. The inspection of these two commodities, including the col- 
lection of samples and analysis of samples, and action in the case 
of violations of the law, remained wholly with the Experiment 
Station until 1904, when new legislation was enacted transferring 
the general administration of the law to the State Department of 
Agriculture, reserving to the Experiment Station the duty of making 
the analyses of such samples of fertilizers and feeding stuffs as 
were transmitted to the Director of the Station by the Commissioner 
of Agriculture. Since the inspection of these two classes of com- 
mercial articles was established in New York, the Station has ana- 
