24 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
Report of the Assistant Bacteriologist. 
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To the Director of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station: 
Srr:—The bacteriological work in which I have been engaged 
during the past year has been along a number of different 
lines. The results of some of the investigations appear in this 
report, others will be published later in bulletin form, while 
still others form part of a series of experiments which are not 
yet complete and the results of which it seems best not to pub- 
lish until the special investigation has been completed. Much 
of the work done during the past year is included under this 
last head. 
An extended study is being made of the occurrence and dis- 
tribution of bacteria in the udder of the cow. ‘This study 
includes a determination not only of the numbers but of the 
species and their effect upon milk. This means a large amount 
of work before anything like a complete line of experiment can 
be finished. Parallel to this work, a similar study is being 
made of the organisms found existing in and about the stables. 
At the same time a similar series of investigations is being 
made in regard to the organisms found upon the various feeds 
commonly fed to dairy cows. ‘These three lines of experiment 
are still in progress, and the results will be published later. 
During the year one of the largest milk producers in the 
state was troubled with the occurrence of slimy milk, which 
threatened to cause great financial loss. He applied to the 
Station for assistance, and this department investigated the 
trouble, with the result that the organism causing. the slimy 
condition of the milk was eliminated, and there has been no 
recurrence of the trouble since. 
