148 RKPoirr of nFFiri-: of fxperiment stations. 



SKW IIAMPSIIIllK. 



New Hampshire College Agricultural Experiment Station, hurhdin. 

 iH'partinont dI .New I lam|isliirt' ("ollegc of Atj^riciiltiirc and Mrclianic Arts. 



GOVERNING BOARU. 



Boanl of Control: Jolin <i. Talhint (Chmrman), Pnnhroke; Warrt'u Brown, Jfain/i- 

 Uni FhIIk; (ieorgo A. Wason, New Boston; Clias. A\'. Rtone {Secrelarii) , Andorcr; 

 W. D. Gibbs {President), Durham. 



STATION STAFF. 



W. I). Ciibbs, M. S., Director. E. L. iSliaw, B. S., ^iKsislaut A(jriculliiri.'<l. 



F. W. Morse, M. S., Vice- Director; Gtemid. H. II. Scmlder, B. A., Am.stnnt Chenml. 



C. M. AVeed, D. Sc, Entomologist. J. C. Bridwell, B. S., Ass'intant Entomolo- 

 F. W. Rane, B. AciR.,M. S., IlorticuUurist. i/ist. 



F. W. Taylor, B. S., AgriculturiM. Edith M. Davi.s, Purchasing Agent. 



I. C. AVeld, Dairy Manufactures. II. F. Hall, Gardener. 



Mabel E. Townsend, Stenographer. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The work of the New Hampshire Station during- the past year was 

 seriously affected ])y the resionation of the din^ctor and ag-rieulturist 

 early in the year, and of the president of the college in the latter part 

 of the year. All of the station officers had their work increased by 

 the division among them of other duties made necessar}' hy these 

 changes, and the progress of investigations was considerably hindered. 

 Feeding experiments were suspended, and tield experiments and chem- 

 ical investigations were much curtailed. Climatic conditions were also 

 verv unusual during the growing seasons and made the results of field 

 experiments ver}' irregular. However, some important results were 

 secured in the study of forage crops, and a successful experiment in 

 suppressing black flies by the use of oil on their breeding places was 

 conducted in cooperation with a mountain hotel. 



The vacancies on the college and station staff' have now been fllled 

 by the election of William D. Gibbs, of Texas (formerly director and 

 agriculturist of the New Hampshire Station), to the position of 

 president of the college and director of the station, and the election 

 of an agriculturist and an assistant agriculturist of the station. The 

 experiments in fertilizing grass lands in cooperation with this Depart- 

 ment and with farmers have been concluded with indefinite results. 

 The tests of novelties and studies of the influence of the origin of red- 

 clover seed on yield of crop, in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry of this Department, have been continued. New lines of 

 work are now being undertaken, notably studies of the available 

 fertilit}' of the soil, hy the chemist; the establishment of an orchard 

 for the purpose of studying problems of fruit growing on rocky 

 pastures, by the horticulturist, and the beginning of a practical 

 collection of forest-tree seeds. 



