THIS HAS been a year of readjustment in the history of the 

 *■ station. Development has begun under the new grouping plan 

 which provides for the housing of the plant and animal sciences 

 (except dairy husbandry) at the newly enlarged Nesmith Hall and 

 of the social sciences, including agricultural economics, at Morrill 

 Hall. Throughout the past year, the extension administration has 

 been expanding from its agricultural and home economics basis to a 

 general service drawing upon and including the entire university. 

 A corollary of this has been the physical separation of extension 

 service and experiment station administration which have been so 

 closely interlocked during the past quarter century. Extension 

 specialists, however, will continue to be quartered with subject- 

 matter departments and a close working relationship bet\yeen the 

 extension and research workers will be maintained. Administration 

 of the subject-matter departments in research and resident teach- 

 ing will be even more closely centralized. 



Although the hurricane of September 21 blew down about half 

 the apples from trees in the experimental orchard and thus curtailed 

 fruit record experiments, dam_age to other experiments was compar- 

 atively slight. A few old trees in the university orchard were up- 

 rooted, and about five per cent were tipped. These were righted and 

 seem to be recovering. In the university woods hurricane damage 

 was very extensive but in the research plots was confined to the older 

 stands. Only six of the thirty special study plots were damaged by 

 the wind. 



Dean M. Gale Eastman of the College of Agriculture was vice- 

 director of the station during 1938 and is to be director during the 

 coming year. Dr. George F. Potter, who joined the experiment sta- 

 tion staff in 1920 as head of the department of horticulture, left in 

 September to accept the position of principal physiologist in charge 

 of the United States Tung Field Laboratory in Bogalusa, Louisiana. 



Morris S. Cover, V. M. D., was appointed assistant poultry patholo- 

 gist and Robert L. Blickle succeeded Miss Barbara Miner as research 

 assistant in entomology. Kenneth G. Nolan, Kenneth Anderson and 

 Elwood Fisher were appointed graduate assistants in botany, bacte- 

 riology and horticulture, respectively. Concluding their terms of 

 service were Miss Mary A. Tingley and Miss Elinor T. Robison. 



Further development of the research in soil erosion was made 

 possible under an extension of the cooperative agreement with the 

 Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture. Walter H. Lyford devoted half-time to this work during 

 the past year and will be employed full-time on it during the coming 

 year. 



With this report the present director closes a term of twenty-eight 

 years of service with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. He leaves with regret the many associations in agricultural 

 research which he has enjoyed during the past years ~ his colleagues 

 on the staff, in other states, in the Ofliice of Experiment Stations of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, and in many cooperat- 

 ing agencies. As director also of the Agricultural Extension Service 

 he has served in a joint capacity throughout most of this period, and 

 will now devote full time to the administration of the General Exten- 



