State Service 



Seed Inspection. The regular 

 seed inspection work for the State 

 Department of Agricuhure was con- 

 ducted as usual. During the year, 

 3030 samples were handled in the 

 laboratory. Of this number, 625 

 samples were collected by the State 

 Inspectors and will be reported in 

 Station Bulletin 378; 2,405 samples 

 were sent in by seed dealers in com- 

 pliance with the clause in the New 

 Hampshire seed law which requires 

 that all vegetable and agricuhural 

 seed must have been tested for ger- 

 mination 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. 



B. G. Sanborn 



Inspection of Fertilizers and Feed- 

 ingstuffs. In accordance with the 

 laws regulating the sale of commer- 

 cial fertilizers and of concentrated 

 commercial feedingstuffs, 82 brands 

 of fertilizers and 614 brands of 

 feedingstuffs were analyzed for the 

 State Department of Agriculture dur- 

 ing the year 1948-49. These analy- 

 ses involved individual determina- 

 tions totalling 562 and 3239 respec- 

 tively . 



Co-operation in work on analytical 

 methods with the American Associ- 

 ation of Feed Control Officials, with 

 the Smalley Foundation, and with 

 the Association of Official Agricul- 

 tural Chemists has been continued. 



Samples of feeds, fertilizers and 

 other materials have been analyzed 

 for New Hampshire residents. 

 Thirty-nine samples have been ex- 

 amined, involving 142 determina- 

 tions. 



H. A. Davis 



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Soil Testing. The samples of 

 soil tested for New Hampshire resi- 

 dents totalled 2391. 



H. A. Davis 



The National Poultry Improve- 

 ment Plan. A total of 47 states are 

 co-operating with the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in administrat- 

 ing the National Poultry Improve- 

 ment Plan. In New Hampshire, a 

 board of ten poultrymen administer 

 the plan with the co-operation of the 

 University of New Hampshire, the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, and 

 the State Department of Agriculture. 



The Breed Improvement stages of 

 the plan, i.e.: Approved, Certified, 

 R.O.P., and R.O.M., are administer- 

 ed by personnel of the University of 

 New Hampshire Department of 

 Poultry Husbandry. Flock inspec- 

 tions were made on each of the 309 

 farms carrying 863,500 birds that 

 participated in the Approved and 

 Certified stages. In addition, 41 

 hatchery inspections were made. In 

 the R.6.P. and R.O.M. work there 

 were 14 flocks participating with a 

 total of 11.000 birds. A minimum 

 of five full day inspections per year 

 were made on each of these flocks. 



R. C. RiNGROSE, E. T. Bardwell 



AND Conrad F. Zoerb 



Pullorum Testing. A total of 

 1.386,421 of the poultry population 

 was blood tested during the fiscal 

 year. Because some birds were re- 

 tested, a total of 1,423,717 samples 

 were examined. 



The birds tested were contained in 

 589 flocks of which five flocks were 

 found to contain a total of 60 re- 

 acting birds. Thus, less than 1 per 

 cent of the flocks tested were found 

 to harbor pullorum disease as con- 

 trasted to the early days of the pull- 

 orum testing program in the late 



