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BALL STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
The work of the dairy department of this station is generally 
recognized as being of a high order, and as the dairy industry 
is probably our most important agricultural industry in the 
state, it seems proper that in our work we should recognize 
the importance of this line of investigation. 
DAIRY BACTERIOLOGY. 
There is no article of food which is more readily contamina- 
ted than milk. It furnisies ideal conditions for the develop- 
ment of bacteria, and city health officers have come to realize 
that pure milk can be secured only from careful dairy methods. 
Many of our cities are adopting regulations which require that 
milk containing bacteria in excessive quantities shall be re- 
jected. In our work in dairy bacteriology we are endeavoring 
to determine the sources of contamination of milk and the types 
of bacteria which enter the milk from these various sources. 
Not all bacteria.are harmful; some are actually beneficial; but 
up to the present time there have been no sources of informa- 
tion which would enable the inspector to reject milk containing 
the harmful bacteria and accept the beneficial, providing the 
milk contained only the beneficial bacteria. In our laboratory 
studies are being made and a classification of dairy bacteria has 
been prepared which will prove of immense value to students in 
dairy bacteriology. ‘This classification of dairy bacteria is pub- 
lished as a part of this report and also as a separate article for 
students’ use. 
POULTRY INVESTIGATIONS. 
The most important problem before the poultryman to-day 
is how to secure vitality in young chicks. ‘This problem is 
being investigated by our poultry department. <A bulletin 
has been prepared entitled ‘Poultry Observations’? and in 
this bulletin will be given results of investigations with ref- 
erence to the death of young chicks, 
HORTICULTURAL INVESTIGATIONS, 
The work in horticulture was seriously handicapped during 
the past year by the resignation of Mr. Bennett. It was so 
late in the season when Mr. Jarvis began his work with us 
that not much could be accomplished in the way of research. 
