During his years as head of Ento- 

 mology, Weed was a prolific researcher 

 and writer. He investigated insects at- 

 tacking fruits and vegetables, includ- 

 ing the greenhouse white fly which 

 was particularly destructive to cu- 

 cumbers and tomatoes. Hydrocyanic 

 acid gas was recommended for con- 

 trol! His 1904 bulletin, "Experiments 

 in Destroying Black Flies" was the first 

 in this field from the Station. Today, 

 some 80 years later, J. F. Burger, an- 

 other Station Entomologist, still stud- 

 ies ways to control black flies. Weed 

 resigned in 1904 to accept a position 

 in the Lowell, Massachusetts Normal 

 School. E. D. Sanderson, who followed 

 Weed as department head, investigated 

 brown-tail, gypsy and codling moths, 

 garden and shade tree insects, and 

 black flies. The department insect col- 

 lection was growing rapidly. 



The Chemistry Department was 

 investigating the respiration of apples 

 and the composition of silage, and had 

 begun regular analyses of feed and 

 fertilizer samples. 



Horticulture was initiating breed- 

 ing work on several different veg- 

 etables, including experiments with a 

 cucumber for greenhouse forcing 

 called the 'Granite State'. Carnations 

 were being crossed experimentally on 

 a large scale to find new color types. In 

 this period, forestry came under the 

 jurisdiction of the Horticulture de- 

 partment. The Hon. J. D. Lyman, 

 member of the N.H. Board of Agricul- 

 ture, speaking at an "Institute" orga- 

 nized by the Board in 1887, had urged 

 that wood and lumber from farms be 

 considered a crop to be grown, thinned 

 and harvested at the proper time. Good 

 forests, he said, may be profitably 

 grown from seed. F. W. Rane, head of 

 Horticulture, noted the pioneer work 

 of Lyman in Station Bulletin No. 106 



(1904) entitled "Forestry" and at- 

 tempted to awaken farmers to the de- 

 sirability of determining what farm 

 land should be considered non-tillable 

 "waste" land, removed from cropping, 

 and devoted to forestry. 



The following item of interest ap- 

 peared in the Bulletin of 1905-06. 

 "During fall term over 100 varieties of 

 apples are studied by the students." 

 Apparently some of these varieties 

 were brought from other states for class 

 work. Nevertheless, it was also stated 

 that "the plum orchard has 60 variet- 

 ies in bearing." 



During this period. Meteorology 

 apparently simply maintained a con- 

 tinuous record of temperature and 

 precipitation. 



Increased federal funding for agri- 

 cultural research came with passage of 

 the Adams Act of 1906 which would 

 ultimately provide an additional 

 $15,000 annually to the Station and 

 enable more extensive planning and 

 conduct of research. In the Experi- 

 ment Station report of 1907, the head 

 of Chemistry indicated that because of 

 increased demand for chemists in 

 manufacturing and pure-food inspec- 

 tion it was difficult to keep assistant 

 chemists. The Adams Act made it pos- 

 sible to pay more liberal salaries for 

 those engaged in research. 



B. S. Hall became head of Horti- 

 culture and Forestry in 1907 following 

 the resignation of Rane the previous 

 year, but a year later Hall was replaced 

 by B. S. Pickett. In 1907, President 

 Gibbs relinquished the directorship of 

 the Station to E. D. Sanderson who 

 three years later resigned as Director to 

 accept a position at Cornell Univer- 

 sity. Morse who had been with the 

 Station for 21 years, 14 of them as Vice 

 Director, resigned in 1909. 



