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X. H. AGR. EXPERIMEXT STATI'V 



[Bulletin 151 



The following table shows the yields of hay from the various plots in the 

 several localities for the season of 1910: 



Name of Cooperator. 



H.S.Townsend 



D. T. & E. E. Atwood. 



Everett H. Smith 



J. B. Foster 



Nelson Merrow 



Royal Jordon 



Walter Eaton 



Average 



Note. — Results as tabulated are in pounds of hay per acre. 



IV. EXTENSION WORK. 



The amount of work of this nature which the department has been able to 

 do has been limited both for lack of appropriate funds and time for its exemi- 

 tion. During the past two years the writer has given about forty public 

 addresses at grange, farmers' institute and other meetings. Numerous requests 

 for addresses at other gatherings have been denied because of the pressure of 

 college and regular routine work. A few visits have been made in an advisory 

 capacity to farms in various sections of the state, but the majority of requests 

 for such visits have had to be refused on account of the lack of time and oppor- 

 tunity to make them. 



The correspondence of the department has about doubled during the past 

 two years, about eleven hundred replies having been made to letters for infor- 

 mation since November 1, -1909. The greatest volume of correspondence 

 come? in the spring and has reference to the purchase and use of fertilizers, the 

 planting of seeds and the improvement of mowing lands. 



The only fair at which an exhibit has been made since 1908 was the 

 Tnion Grange Fair held at Plymouth, N. H., in October of this year. The 

 exhibit included two cases of grains and forage crops, 12 half-bushel cans of 

 threshed grains, exhibition jars of fertilizers and grass seeds, and a series of 

 glass tubes illustrating graphically the results on hay yields from top-dressing. 



One of the most urgent needs of the department is an appropriate fund for 

 extension work because it is felt, from the limited amount which has already 

 been done, that there is no line of work which appeals more directly to the 

 farmer and which will result in bringing the farmers and the Experiment Sta- 

 tion into closer contact and sympathy. 



Other needs of the department commented upon elsewhere in this report are : 



1. Suitable land for field crop experiments. 



2. A small plant house for soil fertility work. 



3. A second assistant for experimental work. 



