Research in Animal Husbandry that there was a problem with small 



centered on sheep breeding, a project fruits. He also initiated investigations 



begun by F. W. Taylor in 1906. A on the effectiveness and safety of us- 



cooperative effort with the Carnegie ing the insecticides pyrethrum and 



Institution of Washington, D.C., be- hellebore on plants ready to be eaten, 



ginning in 1913 with sheep breeding, g g g^^j^^^^ .^ ^^^ Hampshire 



was expanded in 1918 to mclude nu- ^^.v^^^y^ ^^ Story of a New En- 



trition experiments in basal metabo- j^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ 



lism of cattle. O. L. Eckman was de- Q'Kane's ". . . work in the Experiment 



partment chairman m 1915. g^^^.^^ ^^^^ j^.^ ^ p.^^^^^ j^ ^^^^ .^ 



O. R. Butler, who replaced Brooks now called 'sponsored research'." He 



in 1912 as head of Botany, continued organized the Crop Protection Institute 



investigations to control economic which was housed in Nesmith Hall 



diseases of plants with fungicides, until 1963 when it constructed its own 



Together with B. E. Curry and T. O. laboratory in the adjacent town of Lee. 



Smith in Chemistry, he studied the g g p.^j^^^^ (1908-1912), and then 



distribution of food materials in the ^ ^ ^^^^j^^ (1912-1921), followed 



apple tree at different periods of ^^^^^^^^^ R^^e in charge of Horticul- 



growth, research which likely led to ^^^ Varietv tests of apples, plums, and 



later nutrition experiments m pomol- ^^^jj ^^^^^^^^^ ^eing conducted on a 



ogy. In other cooperative research, i^^ge scale -35 varieties of apples and 



Smith and Butler discovered that ce- ^^ ^^.^^j^^ ^^ ^^^^ Propagation of 



real seedlings require supplemental blueberries by cuttings was unsuccess- 



potassium within a few days foUowmg ^j^ ^ut transplanting bushes worked 



germination, and noted the symptoms ^^j^ ^ Lumsden discovered several 



of potassium starvation in wheat, corn ^^^^^ . ^ muskmelons were inherited in 



and buckwheat. Mendelian fashion and two varieties of 



Advanced Registry testing of squashes, 'Warren' and 'Delicious', 



purebred dairy cows was the only showed clear-cut dominance for exter- 



Station work conducted by the Dairy nal characters. Intermediates appeared 



Department during this period. in crosses, however. 



W. C. O'Kane, Jr. arrived at the Forestry, established as a separate 

 Station in 1909 and became head of department in 1911 with J. H.Fosteras 

 Entomology in 1910. He found that head, had mainly a teaching role. Two 

 there were several species of black experiments were begun, however; 

 flies in New Hampshire and that their raising and planting forest tree seed- 

 distribution and abundance in differ- lings, and making observations on the 

 ent areas of the White Mountains at growth and yield in farm woodlots of 

 various seasons were confounding the quick growing, economic species, es- 

 problem of control. In cooperation with pecially second growth white pine. K. 

 the Chemistry Department, he found W. Woodward became head of For- 

 that August spraying of apples with estry in 1915. C. L. Stevens, an in- 

 arsenate of lead to control brown-tail structor in forestry, laterwas to become 

 moth posed no danger to consumers, department head. 

 He qualified this, however, by stating Director Kendall, because of a 

 "under ordinary conditions" and also ^^^^.^^ appropriation and need for 



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