10 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



REPORT OF THE CHEMIST. 



DIVISION OF FOODS AND FEEDING. 



J. B. LINDSET. 



Assistants : e. b. Holland, f. w. mossman,* b. k. jONES,t p. h. smith, jr., 



J. W. KELLOGG. 



Part I. — Laboratory Work. 



Outline of Year's Work. 



Part II. — Feeding Experiments and Dairy Studies. 



A. Effect of feed on the composition of milk, 



butter fat, and on the consistency or body 

 of butter. 



B. The feeding value of barnyard millet. 



C. Dried distillery grains. 



D. Digestion experiments with sheep. 



E. The composition of purslane. 



F. Pax'sous' " six-dollar" feed. 



* Resigned Nov. 1, 1900. 



t Resigned Nov. 1, 1900, to accept position in the Utah Experiment Station. 



