REPORT OF THE CHEMIST. 23 
Report of the Chemist. 
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To the Director of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station: 
Sir:—The work of the Chemical Department of the Experi- 
ment Station for the year 1903-4 has been chiefly of a prelimi- 
nary character. A commencement has been made with an 
investigation of the starch content of potatoes and its influence 
on quality; and an apparatus is being constructed for investiga- 
ting the fertilizing constituents of soils and their determination 
especially from a physical-chemical point of view. 
In February, 1904, Mr. A. W. Bosworth was appointed Assist- 
ant in charge of the special investigation into the chemistry of 
the manufacture of soft cheeses, under my direction, and for two 
months he worked with Professor I,. B. Mendel at the Sheffield 
Scientific School at Vale. Quantitative analyses of Roquefort 
and Camembert cheeses and some preliminary investigations 
into the qualitative nature of their composition and of the pro- 
ducts of growth of moulds isolated from them have been made. 
As far as my other duties allowed, I have carried out analyses 
of samples from feeding and other experiments of the Station, 
and a few for outside persons, in which work I have had some 
assistance from Mr. F. G. Jackson and H. D. Edmond. I 
have analyzed seven samples of milk, eight feeds, two samples 
of the flesh of animals fed on experimental rations, three samples 
of potatoes, and two of fertilizers; in all, twenty-two samples, 
comprising determinations of 75 separate constituents. A re- 
port on analyses to determine the effect of a silage ration on the 
acidity of milk appears elsewhere. 
Respectfully submitted, 
B. BERNARD TURNER. 
