Foreword 



This bulletin conveys the 69th annual report of the Director 

 of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. Listed 

 herein are number, title, and personnel for each of the formal 

 projects active during all or any part of the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1957. Also included are a listing of the staff, the titles 

 and authors of publications, a financial statement, and a brief 

 review of services. 



Publications of the Station consist of bulletins, reports, reprints 

 of scientific articles in professional journals, mimeographed com- 

 mentaries, and the Progress Report. A printed list of available 

 publications may be obtained from the Mail Clerk upon request. 



Many of our research projects have been supported by grants 

 from industrial organizations. We recognize them as expressions 

 of confidence in the Experiment Station staff. All such gifts have 

 been acknowledged with gratitude. The research program is also 

 augmented by the assignment of five cooperative agents of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 



Current emphasis in the research program is in four general 

 areas, namely, poultry diseases, breeding improved fruits and 

 vegetables, dairy nutrition, and economic marketing. It has not 

 yet seemed feasible to allocate our limited resources to such cur- 

 rently important areas as new crops and conservation of natural 

 resources. The technological revolution in production has created 

 new problems with respect to the management and reorganization 

 of the farm business. Because of difficulty in employing a man 

 well disciplined in farm management, this area of investigation 

 has been neglected. Current problems of integration also tend to 

 emphasize the importance of farm management research. 



United States farmers are the most efficient producers of food 

 and fiber to be found anywhere in the world. Never in history 

 has such a small proportion of our population fed and clothed 

 the people so well, and never could a laborer purchase so much 

 food with so few hours of labor as now in the United States. All 

 this adds up to a tremendous achievement, and is evidence of 

 the large return to society on its investment in agricultural 

 research. It is not likely that we will ever have a perfect plant 

 or animal, or a perfect control of pests. Research can neither 

 decline nor remain static in a flourishing economy. 



Harold C. Grinnell 

 Director 



Mathias C. Richards 

 Associate Director 



July 1958 



