promoting investigation of that con- praised in 1974 by Andrews, C.Yunker, 



cept in New Hampshire. Ching (1968) Davulis and Frick. They described the 



indicated that taxing land according marketing channels and the quantities 



to value tended to encourage land- of meat produced. New Hampshire 



owners to put some land to more prof- production as a percentage of New 



itable use (e.g., housing development), Hampshire consumption of beef and 



a move not necessarily in the best veal was 7.8 percent, lamb and mutton 



interest of society. He noted that pref- 1.7 percent, pork 2.0 percent and 



erential assessment does reduce the poultry 0.6 percent. Obviously, New 



tax burden on the private land owner Hampshire was not self sufficient for 



maintaining open space land for the these products, 

 public good. Two years later Ching ^^^^^^ ^^^ g^^^. -^^^ 



and Frick usmg a computer model, ^^^ effectiveness of New Hampshire's 



concluded that on the average, use . . t-. i _ + „j ^^^;^ 



, , . ^ Manpower Development and 1 rain- 

 value assessment would increase tax . ^ .i . ^u f i -i n-yn 

 ,,.,,, , . me Act between the tiscal years 1 970- 

 rates only slightly, but that increases ^ °„ ^ ■. ■ c 



, ,, -^ ^ i' ,, 1972. On a criterion ot wage increases 



would be greatest m the smaller towns. , , <. +u „^„„^„^ 



^ and unemployment, the program 



In a review of the New Hampshire "provided opportunities for unskilled 



Current Use Program, covering the 78 and low income workers to stabilize 



towns involved, D. E. Morris, Frick and improve their association with 



and D. A. Burwell (1974) argued that the active labor force." 



"use value assessment would be more ^ . ,„ . 



.^i,.pj..^ J ,, Animal Sciences 



equitable it administered on a state or ^ . ^ .^. , „ , 



^ .,,.,, ^, • • 1 Dairy nutrition research tocused on: 



regional basis rather than a municipal ,,.,1 , .,. , r^u *• r 



y^ . „ (1) the nutritive value ot the ration ot 



the lactating dairy cow as affected by 

 The world fuel crisis prompted J. different levels of urea, and types and 

 P. Davulis, Andrews and Frick to de- quality of concentrate ingredients; (2) 

 velop procedures to minimize the costs metabolism experiments to determine 

 associated with bulk feed delivery to digestibility and nutritive value of 

 dairy farms. They used shelf-life of the various ration ingredients; and, (3) the 

 feed, bin size and herd density to es- effect of various minerals on the me- 

 timate savings with alternative as- tabolismofcopper in dairy cattle. Many 

 sumptions. They estimated that 25 publications resulted from this re- 

 million tons of mixed feed was used search during this period and several 

 per year involving 100 million miles investigators and associates partici- 

 of travel using 16 million gallons of pated, including N. F. Colovos, J. B. 

 fuel. They concluded that if frequency Holter, W. E. Urban, Jr., H. A. Keener, 

 ofdelivery was reduced, energy savings H. A. Davis, J. E. Vanderveen, H. H. 

 of 1.1 to 3.7 million gallons could be Hayes, R. M. Koes and B. S. Reddy. 

 realized annually. Exclusive delivery Since the number of investigators in- 

 territories would enable savings of 10.5 volved in these experiments typically 

 million gallons. ranged from two to five, this research 

 Davulis, Andrews and Frick also served as a good example of the team 

 examined the effect of spatial density approach to solving problems, 

 on marketing costs and supply firm In poultry nutrition, the availabil- 

 resource use. The structure of the ity of niacin in several ingredients of 

 Livestock Marketing System was ap- 



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