AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN NEW HAMTSHIRE 9 



The Horticulture department lost William W. Smith, research assist- 

 ant, to the armed services, February 1, 1943. William P. Haulbrich, 

 assistant in research, left at the beginning of the fiscal year to do com- 

 mercial horticulture work. Russell Eggert was added as part-time re- 

 search assistant, September 1, 1942. 



Carl W. Hess, research assistant and Record of Performance super- 

 visor, left the Poultry department, October 1, 1942, expecting to be 

 drafted, and tempcjrarily accepted employment on a dairy farm near his 

 home in Iowa. Richard C. Ringrose was appointed assistant poultry hus- 

 bandman, October 1, 1942. Henry E. Parker took the positi(jn of R.O.P. 

 inspector, July 1, 1942. iMiss Ruth E. Rinta was hired as assistant labora- 

 tory technician September 1, 1942, Miss Frances Mitchell, who was 

 employed to help in the laboratory, was given a contract as laboratory 

 assistant on March 1, 1943. 



Among stenographers we lost Miss Katherine C. Wentworth, Miss 

 Dorothy A. Griffin, Miss Jessie E. Page, Miss Virginia W. Linscott, Miss 

 Marion A. Holbrook, and Miss Barbara Fuller. Replacements in a few 

 cases have come and gone, but the following new employees are on the 

 job: A4iss Ruth Johnson, Mrs. Ruth Dearborn, Miss Raymah V, iMorrill, 

 Mrs. Gwen Lamere, Miss Avis G. Cross, Miss Sarah E. Green. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Station Bulletins 



341 Results of Seed Tests 1942 



342 Inspection of Commercial Feeding Stuffs for 1942 



343 Inspection of Commercial Fertilizers for 1942 



344 Land Utilization in New Hampshire. II. Summer Homes and 

 the Rural Economy 



345 Agricultural Research in New Hampshire 



346 Studies in Local Government and Taxation in Rural New 

 Hampshire (in print) 



347 Marketing New Hampshire Mcintosh Apples (in print) 



Station Circulars 



63 Fertilizers for Sweet Corn 



64 Credit Problems in Wholesale Milk Areas of New Hampshire 



65 The Colebrook Plan for Milk Transportation 



66 The Influence of Forest Management on the Local Economy 

 of Dorchester (in print) 



Technical Bulletins — None 



Scientific Contributions 



83 Organic Carbon Level of New Hampshire Soils Under Virgin, 

 General Farm and Experimental Conditions 



84 Isolation of a Filterable Virus from Chickens Affected with 

 "Blue Comb." 



