164 SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EEPORT 



''The Extent and Distribution of the Dairy Industry in 

 New Hampshire." 



A large amount of experimental work has been done 

 during the season by the Agricultural Department, the 

 results of which will appear in bulletins during the winter 

 months. 



The Station met with a serious loss in the resignation of 

 Prof. CM. Weed, September 1st, to accept a position in 

 the Lowell, Mass., Normal School. 



The instalment of the agricultural and horticultural 

 departments in the New Agricultural Building, and the 

 completion of the new range of greenhouses, costing $7,000, 

 adds material efficiency to the Station work. 



The progress of the Station departments will be found 

 under the appropriate headings, as reported by the officers 

 in chargre. 



DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY. 

 Fred W. Morse. 



The Department of Chemistry has continued a portion 

 of its investigations on the respiration of apples and the 

 composition of silage. An investigation of the soils of 

 the College Farm has been planned, and much preliminary 

 work done in comparing various methods of soil analysis. 



There has been more work than usual in connection with 

 the inspection of feeding-stuffs and fertilizers for the 

 Board of Agriculture. Fifty samples of feeding-stuffs 

 and one hundred and twenty-one samples of fertilizers were 

 received and analyzed under these two inspections. 



Several analyses of feeding-stuffs were analyzed for the 

 agriculturist of the Station in connection with feeding- 

 experiments. The usual number of miscellaneous analyses 

 of milk, peat, ashes, and cattle-foods were made for indi- 

 vidual farmers. 



Two samples of flour-middlings were received which are 

 of interest, because of their unusual composition. 



