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 A WORD FROM THE DIRECTORS IV 



AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY 



The Ascorbic Acid Content of Fresh and Frozen Berries 1 



The Digestibility of Timothy and x\lfalfa Hays 1 



AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



Marketing Hatching Eggs 1- 2 



Rapid Milking as a Means of Saving Time in the Dairy Barn 2- 3 



The New Hampshire Silage Cart Saves the Dairy Farmer's Time 3- 4 



Idle Farm Land 4- 5 



Seasonal Milk Problem 5- 6 



Chore Efficiency in Producing Pullets 6- 7 



Good Pasture and Hay-Land Management Increases Farm Income 7 



CROPS AND PASTURES 



With What Grass Should Ladino Clover be Seeded for Pasture? 7- 8 



How Should Fertilizer be Applied for Sweet Corn? 8 



What Varieties of Corn Should be Planted for Grain or Silage? 8 



Oat Varieties 9 



Potatoes Yield Better When Magnesium is Added to the Ferlilizer Mix- 

 ture 9 



Potassium Sulfate Produces a Higher Ouality Potato Than Potassium 



Chloride 10 



Ontario and Essex are Proving to be Excellent Potato Varieties for New 



Hampshire 10 



Sprout Inhibitor Lengthens the Marketing Period for Potatoes 10 



Many Weeds Can be Controlled by Using the New Chemical Herbicides .... 11-12 



DAIRYING 



Clover Hay is More Nutritious Than Timothy for Dairy Cows 12-13 



Cobalt Studies with Livestock 13-14 



The Infusion of 4,000,000 Units of Penicillin is Very Effective in the Cure 



of Streptococcal Mastitis 14 



ENTOMOLOGY 



Houseflies Build up a Resistance to DDT and to Certain Other Insecticide^ 15 



New Pesticides are Effective in Controlling the European Red Mite 15 



Four Applications of DDT Dust are Needed to Control the European Corn 



Borer 15 



Parathione is Effective in the Control of the Eye Spotted Bud Moth 15-16 



FORESTRY 



The Amount of Wood is High in the Manufacture of Heels and Cooperage 



Products 16 



The Brown Color of Maple Syrup is Caused by the Heating that Occurs 



During Evaporation 16 



The Effect on the Maple Tree of the Kind of Spout Used and the Treatment 



of the Tap Hole 16-17 



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