H. C. Grinnell, who joined the Department was augmented and the 



facuhy of the Department of Agricul- ^cope of its research projects broad- 



tural Economics in 1932, became As- ^'^^'^• 



sociate Director of the Station and w. Robert Parks and J. C. Holmes 



Associate Dean under Chandler. He (1942) described the poorstateoftown 



succeeded Chandler as Director and roads in New Hampshire's communi- 



Dean in 1950, remaining as Dean until ties and the constraining effects they 



1961 andretiringin 1965. The Biologi- v^^ere having on its agricultural and 



cal Sciences Branch Library, located recreational resources. They wrote that 



in Kendall Hall was named the Grinnell agriculture in some areas was dying 



Library in 1972. and the area declining despite fertile 



soils because of poor accessibility. Im- 

 Agricultural and proved roads, not agriculture loans, 

 Biological Chemistry vvere needed to reclaim the agriculture 

 Over the years workers in Agricultural resources in those areas. In other areas 

 and Biological Chemistry typically better roads were considered to be the 

 cooperated in the ongoing research of f^j-g^ g^gp ^^ developing the "great res- 

 several other departments, but they ervoir of summer and winter recre- 

 had their own research projects also, ational resources." 

 T. G. Phillips searched for improved 



methods for determination of carbo- W. Robert Parks, at the time the 



hydrates in timothy hay, and he and above publication was written, was on 



M. E. Loughlin established that both the staff of the Bureau of Agricultural 



lignin and crude fiber content of hays Economics of the U.S.D. A. In a recent 



provided good estimates of digestibil- personal communication to this writer 



ity of energy when those hays were fed (W. M. Collins), he states, "That was 



to cattle. Phillips and W. Averill my first job, and the UNH (Station] 



identified two enzymes in squash Bulletin was my first pubHcation! That 



which during storage convert starch to particular project took me to many 



sugar. A. E. Teeri developed improved rural towns in N.H. — an experience 



methods for the determination of wa- which taught me to love your State. It 



ter-soluble vitamins thiamine and is also true that I was president of Iowa 



nicotinic acid, and examined the in- State University from 1965-1986." 



fluence of sulphur compounds on the p^ q Woodworth was a pioneer in 



accuracy of microbiological determi- ^^ie area of- work simplification and 



nations of nicotinic acid. He also in- cooperated with K. S. Morrow of the 



vestigated the role of amino acids on q^- ^.y Department. They published four 



suppression of growth of lactobacilli. studies which analyzed chore travel 



Together with M. Leavitt, D. Josselyn, ^^ ^^^^.^ ^^^^^ j-api^ milking of cows 



and N. F. Colovos and H. A. Keener in ^^^ ^^^^^ efficiency on the dairy farm, 



the department of Dairy Husbandry, jy^q^q studies provided the basis for 



he showed that oral administration of ^^^^i of the milking, feed handling 



sulphathalidine to heifers decreased and barn arrangements which are now 



fecal excretion of thiamine, but not ^^ ^gg -pj^g P^pj^j bilking procedures 



that of other B vitamins studied. developed made it possible to reduce 



milking time to less than six man min- 



Agricultural Economics ^^gg pg^. ^^^ pgj, ^^y (1945-1951). 

 After the war years the faculty of the 



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