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 It has worked out scientific rations for cattle. Five of the six tests now everywhere used in dairying were discovered by this department.

The Babcock fat test is used all over the world. The moisture test for butter, the Wisconsin curd test, the Farrington acid test and the Hart casein test are the other great improvements which have been worked out.

New methods of making cheese, utilizing butter, have been worked out.

The round wood silo was first used by this station.

A new system of ventilation for stables now universally used was worked out here. Even new methods of blasting and pulling stumps have been discovered.

The agricultural department has demonstrations all over the state; grain growing contests, pedigree high grade seed contests are started and directed.

The fight against tuberculosis in cattle by demonstration has been kept up vigorously.

Fertilizers and feeding stuffs have been inspected and analyzed.

A system of stallion registration has already reduced the percentage of grade stallions over 15 per cent in the state.

Tests of soils have been made on hundreds of farms.

Plans have been made to reclaim 116,000 acres by drainage surveyage within the next five years.

How astonished a college professor of forty years ago would be if he were told that a college would do all