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The Babcock test, which placed co-operative dairying on 

 a business basis (Wisconsin station). 



The cheese investigations of the NewYorl^ station, touch- 

 ing all phases of the industry, throwing a flood of light into 

 many dark places. 



The bacteriological studies of the Connecticut, Michigan 

 and Wisconsin stations, which have disclosed much as to the 

 relationship of micro-organisms to milk diseases. 



The studies as to the oriifin of milk fat and of the rela- 

 tionshiiD of food to fat yield and percentages, carried out by 

 the New York and Wisconsin stations. 



The investigations as to the market milk proposition of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture and the New 

 Jersey station. 



The respiration calorimeter work at the Pennsylvania sta- 

 tion, whereby the attainment of a more accurate idea of food 

 values than has hitherto obtained seems likely. 



The demonstration of the Illinois station as to cleanly 

 milk-making, culminating in a dinner served in a cow stable. 



The feeding trials of a dozen stations, which have served 

 to indicate relative values. 



Again, it is instructive to compare the dairy literature of 

 a generation ago, or of half a generation ago, with that of 

 to-day ; to read the records of proceedings of meetings like 

 this, and note the difference in the trend of thought. I 

 cannot express myself better than in the words of Prof. T. 

 C. Chamberlin of the University of Chicago at the semi- 

 centennial jubilee of the University of Wisconsin. This 

 gentleman, in discussing the change in the popular attitude 

 towards agricultural questions in that State resulting from 

 the research and extension work carried on there by the 

 university, said : — 



It was my privilege to compare the agricultural conventions 

 of this State at two periods separated ])y a decade, within 

 which the experiment station became a potent influence. The 

 dominant intellectual and moral attitude of the earlier period 

 was distinctly disputatious and dogmatic. Opinions and float- 

 ing notions played the part that should have been reserved for 

 demonstrations; interpretations were loose and elose analysis 



