AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. LG 
In the dairy laboratory daily determinations are made in 
regard to the per cent. of fat content and solids not fat in the 
milk from the different cows of the herd, which is now being 
analzed periodically by the chemical division to show the per 
cent. of the various constituents in the milk. This gives valu- 
able additional information in regard to the needs of the cow 
in milk production. 
The demand made upon the dairy division for addresses 
before farmers’ meetings is constantly increasing. 
The barn accommodations, for the character of the experi- 
mental work that is now being done, are inadequate. Cows 
that are subjected to fixed rations for a series of winters in 
trials of returns made for digestible matter consumed should 
have quiet, comfortable quarters, thoroughly lighted and venti- 
lated. They should be kept separate from the members of the 
herd not employed in nutrition investigation, and should not 
‘be used in connection with class work in the study of the 
breeds and in live stock judging; because if used in connec- 
tion with class work abnormal shrinkage in milk takes place 
and the value of the experiment is lessened if.not wholly 
destroyed. 
Calf rearing is an industry that is constantly demanding 
more attention, and heavy losses are sustained every year for 
want of comfortable, well lighted and ventilated quarters. 
Many of our prominent experiment stations have built separate 
barns for the dairy herds, provided with ample stall rooms, 
judging and lecture rooms, milk rooms and quarters for the 
sstock foreman, feeders and milkers. 
VETERINARY DIVISION. 
During the past year the health of our farm stock has heen 
as good as usual. There have been a few losses from various 
causes. Among these I must report a continuance of hemor- 
rhagic septicaemia, and a few cases of tuberculosis. The cases 
of hemorrhagic septicemia have been confined to young calves 
of from four to six weeks of age, the infection evidently having 
lost so much in virulence, that the older cattle have been able 
-to resist it. Our herds have been tested for tuberculosis twice, 
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