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some one of our garden vegetables each year, we selected 
the cabbage, and in the Report of the Horticulturist will be 
found the nomenclature and the description of such varie- 
ties as we have grown. The tabular data regarding the 
various vegetables grown by us, is also given as usual, as 
well as the result of various experimental trials. The work 
of the Horticulturist has been incessant and wearying, yet 
its value cannot but be recognized, as furnishing reliable 
data, if correctly interpeted, towards future research, as 
well as in present results. 
The Report of the Chemist is noteworthy as dealing with 
anew method of studying milk and butter, through the 
recognition of viscosity as a factor which seems to have a 
close and direct relation to the practical questions which so 
constantly arise. his study has also furnished clues of 
great interest, and which seems to promise a means for rec- 
sgnizing and recording those variations in milk which arise 
from the ‘‘condition” and the individuality of the cow, as 
well as those conditions of the milk which are corelated 
with ease and success in the manufacturing of butter. To 
Mr. Babcock is due the credit of initiating and successfully 
carrying forward these most interesting and valuable in- 
vestigations. | 
The work of the Assistant Chemist upon artificial diges- 
tion furnish results of promise. The close approximation 
of the percentages gained by the pepsin method, with those 
gained from actual trial with animals, seem to afford good 
ground for the belief in the practicability and reliability of 
this method for establishing the true feeding value of a food. 
As will be seen from Mr. Ladd’s report, the trials include 
a large variety of cattle foods, and furnish chemical an- 
alyses as well. 
Our analytical work differs from that accomplished in 
many laboratories, as the material subject to analysis has 
been in most cases sampled by ourselves, and selected 
elther for uniformity as between various samplings, or as 
representing that grown or collected under average con- 
ditions. But few of our samples have been furnished by 
outsiders, and thus we think the personal equation in samp- 
ling has been brought to as near a constant as is possible 
under the conditions which affect the collecting. 
Since my last report a dairy building has been erected, 
the basement of brick, with hollow walls, the superstruct- 
ure of wood, paper lined, and sheathed internally. Within 
the basement is the dairy room, 17 ft. 6 in. by 11 ft. 1 in; a 
milk room 9 ft. 10 in. by 7 ft. 6 in.; a cellar room 10 ft. by 
9 ft. 10 in.; a churning room 8 ft. 2 in. by 6 ft. 7 in.; and a 
furrace room 8 ft. 8 in. by 5 ft. 10 in. The upper room is 
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