use issues. }. B. Reed (1982) developed 

 a computer program to evaluate cur- 

 rent use assessment w^hich enabled 

 New Hampshire land owners to deter- 

 mine how long land had to be enrolled 

 before savings would exceed penalty. 

 A recent 14-year study by Morris, G. E. 

 Frick, R. R. Weyrick and B. J. Hill has 

 shown that in New Hampshire the 

 Current Use Program was definitely 

 attractive to landowners. This 1987 

 report addressed some of the impor- 

 tant issues surrounding New 

 Hampshire's Current Use Program, 

 particularly those concerning the 

 Program's conflicting goals. For ex- 

 ample, the Program is intended to en- 

 courage preservation of open space 

 through preferential assessment and 

 with minimal disturbance of ad valo- 

 rem taxation. But preferential assess- 

 ment disrupts taxation of land accord- 

 ing to value, and increasingly so as 

 Program participation increases. In 

 1987, about 41 percent of the land in 

 the State was enrolled in current use. 



Dalton and Andrews (1979) used 

 recording cash registers to tabulate 

 daily sales of produce for several road- 

 side markets. These data enabled them 

 to construct daily, weekly and sea- 

 sonal sales patterns. Using daily sales, 

 "the operator can determine optimum 

 operating hours." "Plotting a weekly 

 sales pattern for a period of a month 

 can help the operator schedule labor 

 for the market and the field and de- 

 termine the best day to close." 



The department has a continuing 

 interest in the welfare and demo- 

 graphic organization of the State's 

 population. In 1978 N. LeRay (Soci- 

 ologist, U.S.D.A.), A. E. Luloff and }. G. 

 Campbell appraised the status of the 

 older population of New Hampshire, 

 and Jansen and LeRay updated this 



report in 1984. Luloff, G. VV. Howe and 

 S. G. Hutchins (1985) used U.S. Cen- 

 sus information to develop trends and 

 estimate future population growth and 

 change. 



The characteristics of hay, live- 

 stock products, and produce markets 

 for small scale agriculture in southern 

 New Hampshire were investigated by 

 Andrews and Frick (1985). A total of 

 249 agricultural enterprises in south- 

 ern New Hampshire were interviewed. 

 "Typically, buyers and sellers lived 

 within 15 miles of each other, learned 

 about each other by word-of-mouth, 

 and included small scale beef, sheep 

 and goat operations as well as places 

 with pleasure horses." 



Lindsay and S. J. Graefe (1985) 

 conducted an economic evaluation of 

 alternative revenue sources for raising 

 monetary funds for the New Hamp- 

 shire Hazardous Waste Cleanup Fund. 

 Their study contained a descriptive 

 overview of industrial classification 

 and geographic distribution of quanti- 

 ties of waste for New Hampshire haz- 

 ardous waste generators. They con- 

 cluded that the present flat fee system, 

 in conjunction with the State General 

 Fund and bonding, would provide the 

 major funding sources for the New 

 Hampshire Hazardous Waste Cleanup 

 Fund. 



Analytical Services 



Since 1976 the Analytical Services 

 Laboratory has been supervised by 

 chemist S. C. Blanchard. His work 

 involves routine testing of soil, fertil- 

 izer, and hay, grain and forage samples. 

 State of the art technology, which in- 

 cludes instruments which allow 

 greater automation of tests with in- 

 creased accuracy, and computers 

 which improve efficiency, translates 



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