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of tlie cottage for the plant foreman, with laboratory quarters for staff members. 

 With this equipment the farm is now being used in the service of four departments: 

 poultry husbandry having the first call on land facihties; the department of botany 

 with station administration making certain studies in the pastures; the depart- 

 ment of botany carrying on certain of its tobacco disease studies on the area; and 

 finally, the department of pomology conducting its study on hardiness in peaches. 

 One more piece of major equipment is needed, a combined grain storage and root 

 cellar, to make the farm more nearly self-supporting. When this is built, little more 

 in the way of expensive equipment or apparatus will be needed. 



The Station Research Program. 

 The catalog of active projects of the Experiment Station represents the research 

 program as it is at any given moment. Rarely can such a program represent a 

 well-rounded effort to meet all of the research needs of any agricultural industry 

 of the State. Recognition must always be given to research being carried on in 

 other states; problems of finance and of personnel may prevent certain necessary 

 projects from being undertaken. The time factor in carrying out the several 

 projects often prevents institution of new work. It goes without saying, however, 

 that through the aid of advisory committees of farmers and of staff committees, 

 the attempt is being made at all times to keep our research programs in line with 

 jBxisting need. 



Catalog of Active Projects, December 1, 1926. 



-iAgricultural Economics. 



9. Study of taxation of farm property. Assistant Research Professor H. W. 

 Yount. The work on this project is nearly completed, and the results will soon 

 foe published. 



10b. A study of the performance of different varieties of apples, and market 

 value of product. Assistant Research Professor L. P. Jefferson. Carried on in 

 cooperation wth a number of growers in different parts of the State. These 

 growers have agreed to lay before the Station harvesting and marketing records 

 to be secured over the next few years. 



10c. The consumer demand for apples. Assistant Research Professor L. P. 

 Jefferson. Contemplates a detailed study of sales and sales resistance both within 

 and without the State. 



11. A study of the supply and market distribution of Massachusetts poultry - 

 products. Assistant Research Professor H. W. Yount. 



12. A study of the prices of eggs and poultry in Massachusetts. Assistant 

 Professor D. W. Sawtelle and Assistant Research Professor H. W. Yount. 



The preceding projects overlap somewhat. They recognize the fact of serious 

 competition between New England poultry products and those imported from 

 other sections, and are designed to give a basis for the sound competitive develop- 

 ment of the Massachusetts industry. 



Agricultural Engineering. 



1. Investigation of apple storage houses. Professor C. I. Gunness. Data in 

 support of this project are being taken in cooperation with operators of orchard 

 storehouses in different parts of the State. 



2. Refrigerating and mechanical factors involved in freezing ice-cream. Professor 

 C. I. Gunness. 



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2. Tobacco cropping system investigation. Research Professor J. P. Jones. 

 The most marked result secured to date has been that of establishing the superior- 

 ity of continuous cropping of tobacco over rotation cropping. In this respect our 

 Massachusetts results differ from those which have been reported from other 

 tobacco sections. Since, as a matter of convenience in meeting existing market 

 demand, Massachusetts growers find it necessary to sMft from one crop to another 

 fairly frequently, it will be advantageous if methods may be found whereby rotation 

 cropping rather than continuous cropping may be developed. 



2a. Accessory tobacco rotation plots. Research Professor J. P. Jones. 



4. Study of residual effects of fertilizers. Research Professor J. P. Jones. 



5. A field study of tobacco production in Massachusetts. Professor A. B. 

 .Beaumont. Represents a survey study of tobacco production in Massachusetts. 



