gentle slopes occur, they are well 

 suited to potato production. Paxton 

 soils are characteristically found on 

 drumloid hills which often afford 

 good air drainage for orchard sites. 

 The Soil Conservation Service has 

 furnished the use of aerial photo- 

 graphs and a stereoscope. Because 

 of the lack of qualified personnel 

 they have been unable to furnish a 

 mapper this past year but a new man 

 will be available next year. The 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils and 

 Agricultural Engineering, has fur- 

 nished one man, Mr. H. Hudson 

 Bailey, a truck, and mapping equip- 

 ment. Approximately 38.5 square 

 miles were mapped during the 1947 

 mapping season. Sixty-nine per cent 

 of the county (473 out of 691 square 

 miles ) has been completed. 



The soil survey information is 

 being used by many people within 

 and outside the State. Some uses 

 to date have been: 



( 1 ) location of experimental plot 

 areas 



(2) correlation of soils and cer- 

 tain native plants, e.g., blueberries 



( 3 ) location of orchard sites 



(4) interpretation of glacial geol- 

 ogy of the State 



(5) planning soil conservation 

 programs on individual farms 



(6) training new soil scientists 

 and students enrolled in soils and 

 crops courses at the University. 



Publication of the Sullivan- 

 Cheshire Soil Survey Report is ex- 

 pected sometime in 1949. 

 R. Feuer 



State Service 



Inspection of Fertilizers and Feed- 

 ingstuffs. In accordance with the 

 public statutes regulating the sale of 

 commercial fertilizers and of concen- 

 trated commercial feedingstuffs, 70 

 brands of fertilizers and 604 brands 

 of feedingstuffs were analyzed during 

 the year 1947-48. These analyses 

 involved individual determinations 

 totaling 604 and 3030 respectively. 

 Co-operation in work on analytical 

 methods with the American Associ- 

 ation of Feed Control Officials and 

 with the Smalley Foundation has 

 been continued. 



T. 0. Smith 



and will be reported in Bulletin 374; 

 2,535 samples were sent in by seed 

 dealers in compliance with the clause 

 in our seed law which requires that 

 all vegetable and agricultural seed 

 must have been tested for germina- 

 tion within nine months of being 

 offered for sale. Therefore, much of 

 this testing was seed carried over 

 from the previous season; a few of 

 these samples were sent in by farm- 

 ers who had grown beans or corn 

 and wished to sell it for seed. 



Referee work was carried on as 

 usual. 



B. G. Sanborn 



Seed Inspection. The regular seed Pullorum Testing. During the 



inspection work for the State De- past fiscal year the Poultry Labora- 



partment of Agriculture was con- tory at the University of New Hamp- 



ducted as usual. During the year, shire set up agglutination tests for 



2,983 samples were handled in the pullorum disease on the blood of 



laboratory. Of this number, 488 1,360,465 hens; 90,620 retests were 



were collected by the State Inspectors made on flocks, making a total of 



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