
RHPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. I yt 
of a Pound of Milk Solids,’’ has been issued ina special edition. 
One person desired 2,000 copies of this bulletin and was willing 
to pay all the expense of issuing the special edition. 
The economical use of skim milk from the dairy herd has 
been a subject of investigation, experiments have been carried 
on with several lots of pigs, and a bulletin has been issued 
giving the results of these experiments. 
DAIRY BACTERIOLOGY. 
‘The production of clean and wholesome milk is receiving 
more attention each year. If milk is ever to take the place it 
should among our food products, it will do so in part as a result 
of this campaign for the production of milk under better con- 
ditions. A study has been made of the conditions actually 
existing 1n various dairy barns of the state, and the milk pro- 
duced under these various conditions has been tested for the 
amount of dirt and the number of bacteria. The city milk 
inspectors and the boards of health are demanding that the 
milk which is supplied to the cities shall be of a higher grade 
than it has been in the past. The Station has endeavored to 
assist the producers of milk in this state in securing a better 
quality of milk, and this work has apparently met with appre- 
ciation on the part of our dairy farmers. 
There is another side tothe problem of pure milk production 
that has not yet received the attention it demands. If the con- 
sumers must have purer and better milk, they must realize that 
it costs more to produce such milk and that the dairymen must 
receive for this better product an increased price. Were this 
realized in all cases, it would be a much easier task to persuade 
the dairymen that the production of purer milk is to their 
advantage. 
FIELD EXPERIMENTS. 
Field experiments have been conducted along horticultural 
lines. ‘The growing of vegetables under canvas has been tried 
for two seasons and will be discontinued during the coming 
season. ‘The spraying of potatoes will be reported upon by the 
Assistant Horticulturist. But little of the land of the College 
farm is suited to general plat experiments. Observations are 
made upon the results secured by various methods of treating 
