Women students assist in picking apples at the Horticulture farm, circa 1917 



research in poultry, promoted R. V. 

 Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Ani- 

 mal Husbandry, to Professor, placed 

 him in charge of poultry work in the 

 Station and made him head of the new 

 Department of Poultry Husbandry in 

 June 1916. 



In the 1914-15 College Bulletin, 

 under the heading New Hampshire Ag- 

 ricultural Experiment Station, in refer- 

 ence to quotations taken from the Hatch 

 and Adams Acts, the following ap- 

 peared, "At first the Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Stations found it difficult to 

 resist the popular demand made upon 

 them to enter the extension field, to the 

 neglect of research, but it is to the credit 

 of those officials having the directing 

 and executing of those laws in charge 

 that our Stations have proved true to 

 their trust." 



Sackett, in his history, noted that R. 

 D. Hetzel, elected president of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and the Mechanic 

 Arts in 1917, left two "... great legisla- 

 tive victories. The first of these was a 



change in the name of the institution in 

 1923; the second was the Millage Act of 

 1925." Both of these had a great influ- 

 ence on the development of the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station and the 

 institution. 



Between 1914 and 1918, World 

 War I had touched the lives of virtually 

 all persons and institutions. New 

 Hampshire farmers had responded to 

 the national slogan, "Food Will Win the 

 War," with substantial increases in pro- 

 duction notably of wheat, potatoes and 

 corn. A State Food Production Commit- 

 tee consisting of H. N. Spaulding, Fed- 

 eral and State Food Administrator, 

 Chairman; President of the College, R. 

 D. Hetzel; Director Kendall and Profes- 

 sors Gourley, O'Kane, Taylor and other 

 persons, unified the campaign to in- 

 crease food production. Other Station 

 personnel did much field work and 

 prepared many press bulletins, 

 circulars and special press articles. De- 

 spite the inevitable reduction in Station 

 staff, the research program was main- 



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