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pared with maize ensilage from immature corn and mature corn, 
will be given in a future report. : 
During the year I have prepared Bulletins Nos. 16 and 17, also 
a part of Bulletin No. 18 included in this report. I have also pre- 
pared an exhibit, for the State Agricultural Society's show at 
Albany, illustrating the chemical composition of our more common 
feeding stuffs, including milk. This exhibit attracted consider- 
able attention as an object: lesson, and I have since prepared one 
illustrating the chemical composition of milk and butter for the 
instructors at the dairy conferences. At the request of the presi- 
dent and secretary of the State Agricultural Society, I have 
prepared for use at the institutes a similar exhibit of ten of the 
common feeding-stuffs in general use by farmers. I have also 
been in attendance at several of the institutes in different parts 
of the State. } 
A much smaller number of commercial fertilizers have been 
analyzed the past season than the previous year. The State 
having failed to enact, the necessary laws and make provision for 
carrying on the work, we were obliged to devote our energies to 
the chemical work absolutely necessary for carrying out the 
contemplated dairy experiment. 
In our present overcrowded and ill-adapted quarters it will be 
impossible to carry to successful completion the necessary chem- 
ical investigations connected with the valuable experiments 
already under way with the different breeds of dairy animals. An 
opportunity for doing such valuable scientific work, which should 
tend to practical results, is seldom afforded and should not be 
lost by lack of proper facilities for making the investigations. 
With a new laboratory properly equipped and two more assistants 
and a bookkeeper, the work can be carried to successful comple- 
tion and much done in the way of determining the influence of 
food on the animal products — milk, butter and cheese. 
In closing this introductory note I wish to express my obliga- 
tion to all whose approval and cooperation has made successful 
many of these experiments, which without their aid would have 
been impossible. The chemical work connected with the experi- 
ment with dairy animals has been almost wholly done by 
Mr. Whalen, the assistant chemist, and to him much credit is due 
for aid in the work represented in this report. 
