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NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



New Hampshire College Agricultural Experiment Station, Durhain. 

 Department of New Ilanipshire College of Agriculture aud Mechanic Arts. 



W. D. GiBBS, M. S., Director. 



The New Hampshire Station has added a department of botany, 

 under the direction of the former assistant botanist. The horticul- 

 turist has resigned to become State forester of Massachusetts, but it is 

 planned to continue his variety work and studies in the breeding of 

 vegetables. Some attention will also be given, in part by cooperative 

 experiments, to practical orcharding. The agriculturist is endeavor- 

 ing to devise and introduce means for reducing expenditures of New 

 Hampshire farmers for feedstuff's and fertilizers. Among the lines 

 of work under May are cooperative field tests with varieties of corn, 

 culture trials with oats, and feeding experiments with dairy cattle, 

 in which grain is largely replaced by home-grown feeds. A compre- 

 hensive series of experiments in sheep raising has been begun. A 

 method of fencing by inclosing a portion of the pasture by a high 

 and close-mesh wire, thus forming a small paddock, into which the 

 sheep are driven at night, while the remainder of the field is pro- 

 tected by lower and more open fencing, is believed to present a prac- 

 tical means of preventing injuries from dogs. Poultry experiments 

 are also receiving attention. 



A study of different kinds of milk pails, as affecting the bacterial 

 content of milk, has been completed, and a score card has been de- 

 vised as a guide for the purchase of milk by creameries, on the basis 

 of aroma, acidity, and cleanliness, as well as fat content. An effort 

 is being made to establish associations to test milk production in 

 private herds and to demonstrate the importance of weeding out in- 

 ferior cows. The entomologist has continued his studies on the 

 brown-tail and gipsy moths, and has commenced studies upon the 

 codling moth and shade-tree pests. The " better farming special " 

 railroad train, which covered nearly every section in the State and 

 was inspected by over 1.5,000 people, was manned largely by the sta- 

 tion staff. Considerable attention has also been given to farmers' 

 institutes. 



The publications of this station received during the year were as 

 follows: Bulletins 120, The dairy industry in New Hampshire; 121, 

 The gipsy moth in New Hampshire; 122, The brown-tail moth in 

 New Hampshire ; 123, The inspection of fertilizers in 1905 ; 124, The 

 inspection of feeding stuffs in 1905: 125, Vegetable novelties; and 

 126, The care of composite milk samples. 



